New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Girl
Found i'm Home
OF an Actress
Woman Said to Have Com
fcsscd TO Husband Child
He Thought His Own
Was Stolen by Snowman
Hunted for Two Years
Victim Arouscs Police and
Inquiries Over East Re-
suit in Full identification
Sncolni pisnntch 10 rhc Trtbuno

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Feb. "a Kid
napcd two years ago from her home in
Hawlcy, Pa, Addio Comfort, eleven
years old has been found here through
accident after n nation wide search
had failed. She was discovered at the
home of man and his wife here to
day. The wife is said 20 nave con-
fesscd helping to kidnnp the child
while travelling around tho country
with a show as the wifc of another
man. Her present husband believed
until o-day that the girl was his own
daughter.
William G. Messick, superintendent
of the Children's Society, will ask
Chief Of Police Cadin to issue a war
rant for the former husband Tho
woman, who is i'll at St. Joseph's Hos
pital. will be arrested when released
and her husband is under surveillance
as witness.
Girl Is Identified
Mrs. Jacob Kyser, of Hawloy. Pa.
an aunt Of the girl, has been notified
and is on er way here. In the mean
time William Harrigan, Of Johnson
City, n. Y, the girls grandfather, has
come here and identified her
The case came to the attention Of the
authorities when the neighbors Of the
family complained to the police that the
girls morals were being endangered In
her home. She was arrajgned in the
Children's Court and told Justice Shove
that the people she was living with
were not her parents and told OF having
Travelled in Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey. No attention was paid to her
story ut first, but she was so insistent
that hlessick finally wrote authorities
throughout northern Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. From Binghamton came
a reply that Addie Comfort, nine years
old, had been kidnapped at Hhwley
Harrigan arrived with photographs and
identified her
The Syracuse woman, when confront
ed with the charge broke down. and s
said to have made a full confession.
She says that eleven years ago she left
her husband in Syracuse, after telling
h,m she was about to become a
mother. She Joined the other man and
with him toured small towns in Penn
sylvanla with show, which he owned
playing small towns and county fairs
In the summer of 1919 the man was
taken i'll in Uawley and they rented a
house there.
Tells OF Stealing
The Comfort family lived next door
and the man is said to have made
friends with her by presents Of candy
and toys. One evening when the girl 5
aunt was away he prevailed upon her
to stay all night ut his home. About
2 o'clock in the morning, the woman
said, he woke them up and forced them
to walk with MIN several miles to an
other town, where they boarded a
train and came to Syracuse.
Early this winter the woman said
he deserted her and the child. Ill and
without funds she sough out her hus-
band and asked him to forgive her
telling him the girl was his own daugh
ter. He believed her, took her back
and has since cared for her and the
child.
The girls father, William Comfort
was killed in a Lackawanna accident at
Elkbrook, Md, in April, 1919. Her
mother has remarked and is Mrs.
Miranda kliengardcn, living at Peak
Vile, Broomc County. She has five
other children.