The evening world., 1918-07-12
Finder" Of LOST
BABY CONFESSES
SHE K|DNAPPED|T
Denied Motherhood Herself,
She Says Mother Love
Prompted Her Act.

Mrs. Rose stero. a young wife. who
lives at No. 2ss Front Street, stole a
three-weeks-old baby girl with
golden red curls and laughing blue
eyes from Its Eo-cart in front OF
department store on Brooklyn's Fifth
Avenue late yesterday afternoon and
restored It TO tho police OF the Eliza
beth Street Station, Manhattan, at
. o'clock to-day under the fiction that
she had found the infant on . bench
in the women's retiring room OF the
Canal Street subway station.
Mrs. stero was arraisned in the
Fifth Avenue Court, Brooklyn. this
afternoon and held in $500 bail nI
hearing Monday on a kidnapping
charge. Her husband, Daniel. said
she had for years longed for a baby
OF her own. and he thought THE might
have momentarily upset her mind.
A few hours after tiny Margaret
Murray was once more safe in the
arms Of her mother at No. 2s6 Fiji
teenth Street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Stero
told the detectives in the Fifth Ave-
nue. Station she had followed a blind
impulse to kidnap the pretty little
girl because she had been denied
motherhood.
The baby was so sweet" she
-.
answer a charge Of kidnapping in the
Fifth Avenue Court, she looked so
like the pictures I'd seen in my
dreams OF the little ones was TO
mother that just couldn't resist
running OF with her"
Mrs. David Murray, n bride OF little
more than a year. took the baby for
a stroll near her home yesterday af-
ternoon. She went into a store at
No. 4Ss Fifth Avenue, leaving the lit
tie one outside. When she returned
the baby was gone.
Mrs. Mary McNerney OF No. Al
Third Avenue told tho mother she
saw a young woman without n hat
take the baby from Its go-cart and
start walking swiftly away with 1t.
Through q long night Mrs. Murray
and her husband waited In their home
for results to come from the general
alarm which the police had sent out
At . o'clock this morning a young
woman without hat appeared before
the desk OF the Elizabeth Street Sta
ton with a tiny bundle in her arms
II found this baby in the women's
room Of the Canal Street subway sta
tion," she said.
Policeman Lee pushed back the
little cap and caught glimpse OF the
red curls.
why, that's the youngster tho
general alarms out for!" he ex-
claimed. Immediately Brooklyn
Headquarters was notified and soon
Mrs. Murray was hurrying across the
bridge in company with Detective
Duffey. She found the strange woman
still dandllng the baby.
After she had regained her lost
| baby Mrs. Murray looked searchingly
al the other woman, who had said
| she was Mrs. Rose Smith OF No. 30
Catherine Street.
''Why, didn't you and ] live In the
same house at No. fs4 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn7" she asked In surprise
"And we worked together In Ve''ins
| factory"
The one who said she had found
the baby opened her eyes wide as
dawning recognition came TO her.
Your baby!" she exclaimed. II
| didn't know
Detectives took the supposed Mrs'
smith 10 the Fifth Avenue Station.
where Mrs. McNerney positively idsn-
titled her.
Then Mrs. Stero confessed. She had
taken the baby home last night, shs
said, explaining to her husband she
had found 1t In the subway. Her hus-
10 the police and accompanied her to
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