Evening star., 1922-06-19
GIRL, IS, KIDNAPPED,
FLEES FARMHOUSE;
ABDUCT0R SOUGHT
Police of Maryland Aid in
Search for Catherine Rosen-
baum and Man, 36.
TRAILE0 FROM DISTRICT
TO SLIGO MILL ROAD
Child Taken Away in Surrey Said
to Have Sat Up All Night
in House.

Charles RedmoB. thirty -four
years old. n boarder mt the home
OF John Giddings, on the Sligo
MIL road, was tnken into GUS
tody early this afternoon by the
police in connection with the
| abduction of Catherine Rosenbaum.
and is being held at the ninth
precinct for investiEa tion.
Word was received from the
tenth precinct this afternoon thnt
officers Of TINT precinct expect 10
arrest shortly Marshall L,Ies. nc
cused Of taking the girl from home
yesterday.
Police authorities Of Washington
and Maryland are cooperating in an
extensive search for Catherine Rosen-
baum, thirteen-year-ol daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rosenbaum. 1926
Maryland avenue northeast, who has
rot been heard from by her parents
since she left home yesterday after
noon about 3 o'clock in company with
Marshall LyIes. thirty-siX years old, OF
10oo Fairmoni street. in horse and
surrey. Police early this afternoon
lad trailed the couple to the farm OF
John Giddings. just across the Dis
trict line on the Sligo Mill road. and
discovered that Lyles and the girl had
sat up all night in the Giddngs house.
leaving separately this morning to
come hack to Washington.
According to Detectives Davis and
kuehling of the ninth precinct. Lyles
! left the Giddings place about Z O'Clock
this morning. announcing that he was
going to take a car for Washington
! and go to work. Catherine is said to
| have remained until about o'clock.
running away from the place i'm the
direction of the city, when approached
; by a stranger who inquired il the
farm was owned by Giddnes. The
police of the various precincts are
keeping close lookout for Lyles at
! his home and at his brothers black
| Smith shop on Sth street near Barry
street northwest
! Clue Proves False.
/; Catherine is said to have told Gid
dings this morning that she had an
/ aunt named Mrs. Turner living near
! by. and it at first was thought that
/ she might have gone TO her home to-
day. but a search at the Turner place
failed TO find her. According to the
investigation conducted by Detectives
Davis and Kuehling at the Giddings
place, Lyles, who has a long crimi-
nal record. having been released
I from the penitentiary. and the girl
! drove up to the Giddings place Some
4 time late last night and represented
! to Giddings, who is man in ms
! sixties that she had been brought
there by Lyles. for the purpose of
! obtaining position as Giddings
tfousekeeper.
! Giddings said that during the even
/ ing his son. Joseph Giddings. and
neighbor. Sol Readman. came to his
! place and that these two and Lylos
f, sat up all night with the girl i'm the
= dining room. John Giddings going to
bed upstairs. When the latter "a me
down this morning about o'clock,
he said he found the four in the din
ing room.
| II was about e:45 o'clock last night
| when police of the ninth precinct no
titled Detective Frederick VI. Corn
well, in charge of the detective force.
that the child had been taken away
by Lyles. He Immediately assigned
Detectives Mullen and Messer TO
make an investigation. The detec-
! tives and other members of the po-
lice force spent the entire night in
the country in an effort to locate the
missing man and child.
| Louis Rosenbaum father of the
child passenger brakeman on the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad: Mrs. Tupper.
mother of the child, who left 1.yles
and the Rosenbaum girl. and reia-
tives of Lyles also participated in an
/ alI-night search for the couple. About
. o'clock this morning ii was stated
that a carriage in which a man and
child were seated had been seen on
Riggs road.
1t appears from statements made to
the police that Lyles. said by the po-
lice to have a police record. his pho
tograph being in the police gallery
at headquarters, appeared at the
! RoSenbaum house yesterday after
noon about 8 o'clock with Mrs. Hat
tie Nail. us Euclid street, and her
child. Mrs. Nail wanting to be shown
to the home of a resident of 12tn
street northeast, near q.
Suggests Glen Echo Trip.
Katherine Rosenbaum consented to
accompany the occupants of the car
riage and point out the house on
18th street meeting Caroline Tup-
per, twelve years old, 633 18th street.
and inviting her to go along. After
Mrs. Nail and her child had left
the carriage, the police were told.
Lyles suggested that he would take
the girls TO Glen Echo, where he
would treat them and let them enjoy
themselves.
Instead of going to Glen Echo.
however. according to the statement
of the Tupper child, Lyles drove in
the direction of Brookland, and when
on Michigan avenue. near the en-
trance to Soldiers Home, the Tupper
child said she advised her little COM
panion to go home, telling her her
mother would be uneasy about her.
Caroline Tupper told her mother
that Lyies' alleged advances toward
her companion. alarmed her and made
her feel that she should return home.
The child declared she detected the
odor of liquor on the mans breath
u and said Katherine Rosenbaum told
! him she would not accompany him
unless he stopped drinking.
. 'Lyles told her he would stop drink
ing, the Tupper child stated, and i'm
response to n suggestion that she
kiss the odor of liquor frim his lips.
she added. the man kissed Katherine.
Caroline further declared she heard
Lyles tell Katherine he would give
her a $500 diamond ring. good clothes
and SIS a week spending money il
i she would accompany him.
Caroline told her mother she de-
| clared she would walk home, after
warning her companion to leave the
carriage and return home. and Lyles.
she said, gave her 25 cents with which
,, to pay car fare.
Il II was after sundown when the
Tupper child reached the city and re-
. yotod m her mother her experience