The New York herald., 1921-07-09
TWO MORE CHILDREN
STOLEN in n. J.;;F|RST
ONE STILL IS MISSING
Mrs. r. +. Woodland Sus-
poets Husband Had Part
in kidnapping.
SEPARATED FROM HIM
Strangers Made Friends
With Her and Took Lit
tie Ones to Beach.
MONEY LEFT TO THEM
Police Watch Boats for Cuba
in Hope Of Recovering
Torrens Baby.
MONEY LEFT TO THEM

! While the cities and hills of northern
New Jersey and even the piers of New
york were being searched yesterday
for the kidnapped baby. Margaret
Eloyse Torrens. carried off on Thurs
day from the summer home of her
grandfather, James Simpson. near
Pompton Lakes. it became known that
two children had been stolen under
similar circumstances at the other end
Of the State-Cape Nav.
They are Jack Woodland, So wears
old, and Margaret Woodland years
old. the children of Mrs Robert EN-
met Woodland of 511 Hughes street.
Cape May. They disappeared on
Thursday. Their mother is grand
niece of John Wilbraham, retired
Philadelphia manufacturer who lives
In Myrtle avenue, West Cape May. and
is locally reputed to be worth half a
million dollars Like the mother of
the Torrens baby, Mrs. Woodland has
been living apart from her husband.
She said yesterday that she left him a
year and a half ago and that he Is
now supposed to be working for the
Terminal Railroad in Atlanta, Ga.
Two strangers, known as Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry James of Richmond, Va,
went to live at Sunnyside Villa. on
Hughes street. a block from the home
Of Mrs. Woodland. about a month ago.
They made friends with the children IN
the beach. In that way they became
acquainted with the children's mother
! 1t got so that Mrs Woodland and Mrs.
James went to the movies together of
an evening, leaving Jack and Margaret
! with Mr. James.
Took Children to Beach.
| the beach on Thursday morning and
did not return. Mrs. Woodland, going
to Sunnyside Villa, found that Mr.. and
Mrs. James and their baggage had de-
parted Mrs. Woodland had the Cape
May police send out warnings to other
cities of the East and South Capt.
Howard Smith OF Schellnger's Landing
| told her he took two men and a woman
and two children In his yacht to Lewes
Del. on Thursday aftcri oon. His de-
scription OF the second man in the party
makes Mrs. Woodland think he may
have been her husband Suspecting that
the children have been taken to Atlanta.
| she left for that city yesterday after
noon. but the Cape May police believe
! that whoever has the children will stay
in hiding in Delaware or Maryland for
a while. Mrs. Woodland said an at.
tempt to kidnap the children was made
last year while she was In Tampa, Fla.
1t is rumored in Cape May that John
Wilbraham. their mothers grand uncle.
| who Is 81 years old. settled $4,000 on
each of the children not long ago and
that the persons who ran OFF with them
were aware of this.
The whereabouts of the nine months
old baby and of her father. Alfred Tor
rens, ana the three other men who
| helped him bear off the baby after one
of the men knocked down the mother
at the Simpson home near Pompton
Lakes on Thursday remained unknown
| to the searchers yesterday. Apparent
I ly. no one has been found who saw Tor
rens's sporty blue motor car after It
raced away from the Simpson place,
leaving the baby's mother and grand
mother crying for help on the hin. The
chase kept Bert Miller, chief Of the
| Pompton Lakes police. among the
Ramapo hills near the New York and
New Jersey line all Thursday night but
whatever clew he thought was there
proved vain. for the time being at least.
To watch Bonts for Cubn.
The mother of Torrens. who is sum-
mering near Green Pond continued TO
insist that she had not seen her son
since Saturday and knew nothing of any
intention to get the baby. Yesterday
Chief Miller rode down to Paterson and
then came to New York 1t was thought
that Torrens might be heading for Ha-
vana. where his father. who Is a Cuban
anu separated from the mother lives.
He could not have sailed on Thursday
for the only steamship leaving for Ha-
vana. the Moro Castle, got away at
] :30 A. NJ, only half an hour after the
time the baby was taken, thirty-nve
miles from New York. There were no
saiings for Havana yesterday. The
Henry r. Mallory of the Ward Line and
the Tuloa of the United Fruit Line will
sail to-day. Watch will be kept at both
piers.
Three John Doe warrants. charging
the companions OF Torrens with afro
clous assault upon Mrs. Torrens. were
given TO Chief Miller OF Pompton Lakes
to serve. No warrant has been Issued
for Torrens. Residents OF Pompton
Lakes are excited by the taking OF the
baby. especially in view OF the fact that
II had not been weaned and separation
from the mother may endangcr it's life.
Jacob Van der Clock. a Paterson law
yer, told the police yesterday that Tor
rens came to him several months ago.
not long after the separation Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Torrens. which took place In Jan
uary. and asked how he could get back
his wife. The lawyer could not help
him. On the way out OF the office, ac-
cordlng to the lawyer. Torrens got into
conversation with two of the lawyers
clerks and offered TO pay them IL they
would help him recover his wife and
child. The Paterson police have talked
with the clerks. to what effect Is not
known. Chief Miller OF Pompton Lakes
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