The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-04-11
GRAND MOTHER Il.
FINDS THE BOY
HARPER, IOWA, WOMAN is RE-
wARpEo FOR VIGIL.
TRAMpED STREETS BY NIGHT
Visited Cafes and Other Places In
Kansas City At All Hours Un-
til She Finally Got Trace of
Grandson.

Kansas City, April 9.--In search OF
her 7-year-old grandson, kidnapped by
his mother five months ago, Mrs,
Michael Striegel, IS years old, wife
of the mayor of Harper, Iowa, has in
the last week been combing this city
alone by night and day. Yesterday
afternoon, the boy, Elmer Pipes, was
found at 1907 East Eighth street, by
Detectives A. L. Mason and Jack Nc.
Grath, with his mother who had stol.
en- him last December.
AT police headquarters, the boy
was restored to the arms of his grand
mother while the mother, Mrs. Louise
Pipes Quintette, became so hysterical
that it was necessary for two officers
to hold her. The grandmother, who
produced papers showing she had
been awarded the custody of the child
when his father l.. S. Pipes, obtain
ed his divorce about four years ago,
was told the case first must pass
through Juvenile court before she
could take the boy home with her.
Court Is Appealed To.
Judge Porterfleld was appealed to
and the case set for Monday morn
ing, while the child was placed in the
Detention home pending the decision
Since December Mrs. Striegel has
sought the boy in about a dozen cit.
les Of the Middle West. Hearing he
h,rn,t CHI RI ha
came here and began her search
alone. She would walk the streets
at night inquiring of persons whom
she met If they had any information
of the child's mother and in the late
hours she would visit cafes and caba-
rets in all parts of the city PROFOUND
ing the same question to those she
met there. Finally in that manner
she learned that the mother, now the
wife of Belda Harry Quintette, was,
with her husband, conducting a fish
market at Twelfth street and the
Paseo.
Friday she appealed to the police
to obtain the boy for her. Yester-
day afternoon, when the two women
faced each other at police headquar-
tiers, Mrs. Quintette broke into tears
and tried to prevent the boy going to
the arms of his grandmother
Says Children Were Neglected.
my, heavens, what you have cost
mel" the younger woman exclaimed.
81 ought to kill you now"
The child's father is now in the ar
my and stationed at Fort Sam Hous-
ton. He recently obtained a fur
Tough to aid his mother in the search
for the boy.
Mrs. Strlegel said that her grand
son was kidnapped from her in Des
Moines where she had taken him at
his mothers plea to make her Wis
it. The mother refused to give up
her son ct the conclusion of the visit
and it was found that the papers CIV
ing the grandmother the child's GUS
tody were faulty through a mistake
of the court. While Mrs. Striegel
went to remedy this Mrs. Quintette
and her husband took the boy and
disappeared. Mrs. Striegel says she
has in her possession letters written
by Mrs. Quntette in which she Of
fers TO sell the child for $1,000 to his
grandmother. The latter also has
in custody the boys sister, two years
older.
Mrs. Striegel said she came to
Kansas City four years ago after her
son and his wife had separated and
found the children in the Life Line
mission in Kansas City, Kas. They
were being neglected by their moth
er, she said, and she took them in
charge.