The Washington times., 1920-06-16
FATHER ASKS
AID OF POLICE
Dennis E. McQueary Believes
Youngsters Were Lured
From This City.
WOMAN AT SCHOOL HOUSE
Police Hunt Mystery Woman
Who Was Seen to Embrace
Trio on Street.


can shed some light on the mysteri-
Gus disappearance Of his three chill
dren, whom he believes were kid
naped. Dennis e. McQueary. Of the
Treasury Department. this morning
asked the police to hunt for her.
He is contemplating wiring Los
Angeles authorities to look out for
his children.
mighty sweet, and my whole life and
soul" They were spirited away by .
woman. who went to the Thomson
school, Twelfth and l. streets north
west, during the lunch hour yester-
day noon.
The father is frantic for their re-
turn. This morning he appeared as II
his heart were broken. All during
the night he visited places where he
thought he might obtain a clue to
their whereabouts. This morning he
returned to his desk, hopeless and IA
tigued.
NOT AT THEIR DESKS.
For the first time since entering
the Thomson school. in January. Cath
crime. aged eleven; Smith. nine, and
James, seven. did not appear at their
desks this morning. They were in
"A. "a and IL gfades.
The McQuearys were divorced in
frankfort, KY, in 1918. Not for two
years has McQueary seen his former
wife. She and Eugene Kelley took
out a license OF marrige in the Dis
trict on April 10. 1919. In September
the couple wetn to California. She
gave her age as twenty-three years
At the Thomson School it was said
today that a woman who bore .
striking resemblance to the girl
Catherine, called at her classroom
yesterday during the lunch hour.
She asked for the child, and when
told she had gone to lunch, left the
building and did not return
From there the woman is thought
ohave gone to 1119 X street north
west where the family boarded.
SEEN TO EMBRACE CHILDREN.
The woman was seen to embrace
the children in front Of 105 X street
northwest, where the father lived
with his two sons. Something was
said about ''going to a show" Nc
Queary was told, when he reached
home from work.
to police chiefs in many cities. in
voked the help of Baltimore. Phila-
delphia, Richmond and New York au-
thorities in the search.
Anonymous telephone messages
have been received by the police as
suring them that the children were
all right and no harm would come
to them. McQueary said he will not
offer a reward.
Little is known by her forme- hus-
band of the recent movements OF Mrs.
Maude Kelley. He says he brough.
his children here from Frankfort,
KY. in January, and that since that
| time he has heard rothing from their
mother.
II was keeping them right" he said,
but she could have had them IL she
really wanted them. We were room
ing at 1918 X street northwest, but
recently Catherine went to live at
2T29 Eleventh street northwest. We
had our meals together all the time.
SUSPECTS FORMER WIFE.
Whoever could have been the wom-
an who took the children, unless II
was their mother, l do not know. IL
could not have been an aunt, because
they had none. hear that the won-
an called and asked for Catherine at
the school, saying she was her aunt
That ~ foolish.
Catherine did not even recognize
her. heard. The children were all
smart, and were devoted to each other
and to me. They were mighty sweet
I am all broken up over their disap-
pearance. My former wife is the only
person know who would want them
AT times she was not very devoted
to them. This was all done to spite
me. I know she does not want them.
will work my hardest to get them
back, because I love them.
"when Catherine had scarlet fever
last fall she was with her mother and
] never even knew about II. | don't
think her new husband knows she
had a child as old as that She gave
her age as twentythree, when she
had n ten-year-old daughter.T
AS soon as can get hint as to
who may be responsibIe for this
a xss srNa al