The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
May 28, 1899

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TALK OF TOWN ftSTSi-fSTGRY OF CLARK 5'Sr)SSS T"T .'''iC-H It'lli jm jilirniTTfTTiftiiiiriwiiii,iQiir.-uii".'rr HE FOUND HIS DOUBLE. It Is said that every man born of woman has somewhere in the world a double in other words, a person who looks and acts just exactly like him in every re spect, and that somewhere and sometime he will meet him face to face. The two McDonalds, the traveling men who were here at the U- C. T., created much no tice because they looked and acted so nearly alike. But the McDonalds were twins. Their appearance here brought out many stories of men's doubles, prin cipal among which is one told by Attorney C. C. Stanley, senior member of the law firm of Stanley Stan-ley. Mr. Stanley dis covered his double when he was in Topeka- The man is a head clerk in one of the largest stores in Topeka. They had been hearing of each other through the mistakes and explanations of people who had taken one for the other for a good while, and finally they met on the street Each recognized the other on sight and they stopped and got acquainted. Mr. Stanley- sf ys it reajly seemed as if he w ere gaziag into a looking glass when he looked at his double and it took him a while to get used to it. The clerk had recently been married to a beautiful Tope ka. young woman and Mr. Stanley after wards found out that she was the very lady who a short time before had jerked his coat tail and upbraided him for at tempting to pass without noticing her. "I want you to go home with me 'some evening," said the double. "I have only been housekeeping a couple of months and I want to see if we can play a joke on my wife." Mr. Stanley was somewhat in- "s clined to back out of any attempt to play a trick on a woman, but owing to the solicitation of his new-snade friend, he Anally accepted the invitation. "But what do you want me to do?" he said. "Go down with me this evening after I get out of the store, and just before we get to the house I will turn and go round to the rear of the house. You bolt right in the front way, go into the sitting room and directly to the large mantle. You will find a case of cigars on the mantle. Help yourself to on and sit down in the largest wicker rocker. Lay your head over to one side of the -headrest and shut your eyes. That's the way I do. She will come to you." Mr. Stanley did as directed. Just as he sank in the comfortable chair the pretty young wife cane in from her room. "Oh. are you here George?" I did not say a word. "Now, you are Just ten minutes late. What kept you?" I uttered not a word. "You are tired I know, lovie; wait, I'll get you a glass of lemonade." "She did so and I drank, but threw my hoad back on the pillow and groaned, hoping her husband would break in be fore things went too far. She soon re turned, and as was her custom, went around back of the chair and threw her arms around my neck, pitying me for hav ing to work so hard at the store. My previous feelings now changed and I be gan to enjoy the situation hugely, and uttered a silent prayer that my mischiev ous double might fall into the sewer, but to my utter disappointment and the wife's horror, he Jumped through the door just as she was preparing to plant a kiss." Tine young man played the part of the outraged husband to perfection, and it was not until the innocent and well mean ing wife began to cry that he stopped her with his explanations, and I stood there Iikea fool. But It was such a good joko that after sizing us up the wife laughed heartily and we had a merry evening after that, and many pleasant times and per plexing situations afterwards. HAPPENINGS BEFORE THE CITY -WAS A PEERLESS PRINCESS. The little things which happen in the growth and development of a western town from the time the plat is fllea, up to the time it becomes a railroad cen ter and a commercial point of import ance, which it always does if only in the dreams of the founders become of in terest as the years roll around. An old citizen, and yet a man possessed of much of tho vigor of youth, at least in his mind if not in his lees, perhaps a compound er of drugs, and then perhaps he is not foil to talking the other day about the history of the affairs of th:s county, of the carnivals tho out and outers, as they were called In those days and of the theatrical companies as they were wont to organise .and as this man, gifted with a remarkable memory and with a re markable faculty for supplying interest ing facts, if his memory should be at fault or rusty, started off and -was lis tened to. He taid that the flrst county fair was hel in the north end of town on the plat of ground known afterwards as Carey's park. That the association was not able to fence it the first year, but simply stretched a rope around It and employed a lot of guards to walk around the outside to keep the boys: from Jukeing under- Everybody in the county came to that fair, and the finest line of products thaa the virgin soH ever produced were s'lown up and were the center of attrac tion and admiration. Another attraction was a post in the ground about tea feet h'gh with an arm extending some six or Fovea feet to which hung pendant, the orator said, a ring about two indies aross, and the sport with this was that the country boy and Texan were to rkie tender U on a dead run and if he could stick a spear through the ring, the afore ud speer being- a small fish'ns; pole with a portion of the small end cut oft!, he was emitted to so much cash. The orator sakl. mind you, that a promi reit citiaen of the town .more prominent nrw than then, and who might be a tn-ernor or a judge, or who might not K-. and who would not have to be either to be prominent, looked with disgust upon i many failures to run the speer trough the riner, and whose disgust finally became audible by the remark that tiaw was." dead easy, and was told by a Texan In a somewhat forcible way that ho. the Texan. would lend his him broncho. and for every time he put the speer i Trough the ring he would give him UM, "M for every time he. the prominent but d'gusted dtiseo. missed it he was to give the Tfxan one dollar, and that he could tke the job -by the day. or month and work at it every fifteen minutes if he de sired. The aforesaid prominent citiaen having as a matter of fact more proml rence than wealth, and thinking that he ad a soft thiny. jumped upon the b-oncto and started at the rimy with a ruh .and mimed It toy about ten feet, p-d after making five wild dives at the nng and promptly putting up five rlunks, be threw up the job with the re mark that It was kind of dece.Vinir. The Texan then offered to bet him the bror cno against a dollar that he could not hrow the speer through a hogshead hoop. Mr Citiaen thought that be had pretty nar enough of it. but as he bad taken a fancy, to the broncho and the crowd set up a cheer, be offered to take the be: make any difference to him if he laid it on the ground, so the hoop was lowered and the prominent citizen, ramming his spurs deep in the side of Mr. Broncho, w-ent for the hoop with a rush like many winds. But fate was against him. The broncho got within about ten feet of the ring without having noticed it as It flopped in the wind, and then, as if his rider vhas lassoed a long-horn, he stopped stopped as if he had been stricken by a thunderbolt every muscle, every movement of the broncho quit at once, but not so with Mr. Prominent Citi zen. He shqt forward with the rapidity iu jus, oi a. .uauser bullet, and with a clutch to the speer he went flying through tho hoop and lit about forty feet on the hard ground beyond. Fortunatelv. he was not seriously hurt, but he had the gall to claim that ho had won the bet but the crowd who were the judges decided against him on the theory that he was to -throw the speer through the hoop, no: carry it through. The Texan would not take the money. He said that his friend could have it to buy court plaster, and the orator Insisted that when this remark was made the broncho winked at the crowd. They did not hesitate to record this, for the orator seemed perfectly com posed. Then, said the orator, do vou remem ber the flrst carnival? As a matter of fact the first ever held in any city west of St. Louis. Charley Schattner was the mov ing spirit. The procession was about a mile long and the take offs were rich and racey. The orator remembered one nice young man. the neatest dresser in the town, took a notion that he could run a newspaper, that his divine mission was to manage some great journal. Through some of the incidents incidental and more or less frequent in the early career of an evening paper, he came into pos session of. Now, the nice young man had lots of good clothes, standing collars, fancy neckties and so on, but to start a big newspaper required other capital and the young man soon got onto this prop osition and began to borrow from his friends, he remarking as he tapped them for fifty or a hundred that he would soon dispose of his herd out on the Chlkaslra. and then he would have money to throw at the birds, but one morning tho town was startled by a notice posted in the postofllco that the said presses, tho good will of the institution, and in faot all other upperter.ances belonging thereto, had been taken in by the holder of a chattle mortgage, and then the boys be gan to look for the herd of cattle which they found grazing on the fertile pastures of the nice young man's mind. The take off at the carnival on this was a very lean, a measley steer, put upon a plat form, surrounded by the victims out at the dhows and in diver and sundry other places. And the theater, said the orator still in good wind, was simply great, Byron Raphael was tho moving spirit in its or ganization. Frank Fisher, Johnny Allen, Frank Smith and W. O. Hillis. were the leading actors and each a star in his own line. Frank Fisher was tho heavy vil lain In all of the plays, and no play wont mat uia not have a heavy villain in it, because a part of our every day show in those days was some supposed villain, heavy either with bug juice or with some other sort of incentive which made him villainous. Frank always wore a pair of rubber boots about four sizes too large with very hign tops and the suggestion which came into every mind as he stepped across the stage, would be how long would it be until the boots absorbed the actor, as he seemed every few mo ments it sink further into the boots and beforo the play was over bets used to be made by the boys in the audience as to whether there was more boots or moro actor, and then, the relator of this na rative began to breath hard and a wild look was noticed in his eyes as he began a baseball story and the listeners quietly suggested that he take a hyperdermic in jection and save the baseball story for any other old time. J some time there was a slack in the line, and the boys pulled it in, and when the end was hauled on the bank of the river a long, round, dark-looking object was hooked through the upper jaw, and upon examination it was concluded by both the young fishermen that they had caught a snake. They proceeded to kill the sup p6sed snake by throwing stones at it. and when it was concluded that the snake was too lively to remain in one place long enough to get hit. the boy who owned the Jishing line concluded to get a stick and pull the tnake up to the end and carry It home. He started toward Main street, and coming to a meat market, called the proprietor to come and see his snake. The man immediately discovered that the boy did not know what he had caught, and of fered to buy It, which was good news to tho youngster. The snake was sold and placed In a tub of water, and In less than twenty-four hours found its way into a pan of hot fat, where it was afterward served up as one of the most delicious" delicacies known to an epicurean. It was a big, fat, juicy eel. DRILL BY GIRLS. On last Monday night the class day ex ercises of the Wichita High school at the Auditorium were enlivened by the intro duction of a very pretty drill by a corps of girls from the graduating class. Twenty-five members of the graduating class were in uniform and went through the difficult manouvers of the several mili tary tactics under tho discipline of Mr. Charles W. Bitting. For three weeks the young ladies had been in training and their display was in all parts a credit hoth to themselves and to their patient and able commandant. Miss Furley as captain showed great dignity and all the corps were; enthusiastic in their efforts to make tho affair a complete success. The different figures displayed were, a star, maltese cross, triangle, square, and other crosses. The finale was the presenting of the class colors, in white, green and pink, and the lettering, W. II. S. FLOWERS FROM AFAR. From Buffalo, New York, to this city seems to be a long distance to ship deli cate flcwcrs and expect to keep them fresh. Bat this was done last week suc cessfully and to -the edification of the ac counting staff of the Jacob Dold Packing company. Miss Pearl Ludlum, amanu ensis in the office of the'foreign salesman, received a box of pretty lilies of the val ley ,the stems of which were buried in a freshly cut potato. They are now in water in a vase on her desk as fresh as the day they were sent Her sister, Miss Myrtle Ludlum, governess in the house hold of Mr. George P. Dold, now in Buf falo, sent them by mail. "USE OF THE VERB "SEE." In one of the grades at Washington school recently a teacher asked her class to mak-o- sentences out of tho different tenses of'the verb "see." One bright pu pil responded with the hackneyed musical term, "I Have Seen Better Days." An other gave out an equally up-to-date aphorism, "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me," while a third submitted, "I Will See You Later." ARE LOOMING UP. The many new brick and store buildings now being erected throughout the city are .looming up above the flrst stories. Some are being roofed and others nearing com pletion. The many new residences going up in all sections of the city are being built large and spacious, and are very at tractive in architectural design. Church edifices are also keeping in line with other improvements. Wichita is going ahead rapidly and will soon be double the popu lation of two years ago. SANG Z1ZZY ZEE ZUM ZUM. The Emerson school exercises, held at the school on Friday, proved one of the besjt times ever witnessed In this city. Professor Carson and all the teachers ar ranged a very elaborate program for the scholars, which -was participated in by .many spectators, mostly parents and rela tes oi me scnoiars. owers and bunt ing decorated the class rooms. Old G'.ory, artistically draped in the room of the eighth gradp, was in evidence, as was the very prc- attires of the boys, who came to the exercises with clean little faces and hands, hair combed and shoes b;ackej others with tan shoes. The little ladies' with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, wearl ing fancy colored ribbons in their hair, around their neck and waist. The whole scene was a picture for the oye to feast upon. Songs were sung, music was in abundance, and the happy ending of the school term wfl live long la the memory of all those who were present on this eventful occasion. Professor Carson made a special talk to the graduating class. His remarks were very appropriate to the occasion. He likened the material of the scholars for a future to the steel ued in piano strinss and the wood for violins. He said it rest ed wholly with themselves what they be came in the future. He also addressed a few words to the scholars on patriotism Lincoln and Grant. The program given was as follows: Some. "Zizzy Zee Zum Zum" School Declamation Jean Dean Son School Declamation Bert Maxwell Song. "We are Coming, Father Will lam" Declamation .lu Hodges Song. "One the Shores of Havana" Reading. Juanita Tavlor Recitation WlTJa Pontious Soair. "As the Sun Went Down" Recitation Annie Zlmmrman "Kentucky Babe" Girls leciamatton Alice Campbell "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky". .Class Declamation Mary Spangler "Break the News to Mother" Recitation Mabel Earp Marching Song Prof. Carson and da? WASN'T A SNAKE. During the past week a small boy went fishing; He cast bis line in the river just below the dam In Riverside park and eat down to spend the afternoon waiting for a bite. He did not have long to wait be fore he felt a tugging at his to,, and after concluding that it was about time to give the line a jerk, he got up very slowly to Ms feet and reaching as far down a he could got a good hold on the line and jerked, but it would not come. He called to another boy that his line was stuck. The other fisherman coming to his assist ance, both begun pulling the line. it seemed to jerk back and they concluded that the nook had caught in something mat was or a apriss nature. One JJrrlf UeV I pawag wa other way. Altar working for two feet. The Texan said it A BIG BRIEF. Probably the most voluminous printed and bound edition of a brief every com piled by any firm of attorneys, in a crim inal case, was completed a few days ago in the case of Shea vs. the State. The pamphlet contains nearly a hundred pages of printed matter, copies of which have been served on the state's attorney. Ten copies were taken to the supreme court by the defendant's attorneys, Adams Adams, last week. The hearing has been set for June 7, at Topeka. AEDV-VNCTJ IN HORSES. There Is a scarcity of certain kinds of horses at the present time. Horses are not so low In price as they were a year or two ago. Chiof Walden of the fire de partment has been looking over the mar ket for a suitable pair of horses for use in the department and has not yet been able to find the kind needed. There are many others looking for family drivers, young, sound and city broke, and but few are offered, except in a few instances. When the price has been named, most lookers take another look, as horses have advanced nearly 23 per cent. LONG DISTANCE POLTCEMAN. Riverside park has a mounted policeman now. He rides a bike, and remains on duty until after midnight, and any per son found loitering around over the park who does not conduct himself properly will hereafter be conducted to the city lockup and there held until the opening of Judge Mitchell's court the next morning. The park commissioners claim their bike policeman is a long distance rider. THE MYSTERIOrS VISITORS. During the past week several represent atives of various street railway syndi cates have been secretly and mysteriousiy dropping into the city and going away equally as mysterious, all of whom, it has been said, will be back again to make the city officials a proposition to build a street railway plant. As soon as one party does decide to put a railway system in. then it is probable that all the others will find out they are too late. NEW BIRD'S-EYE VIEW. A very handsome bird's-eye view of the business section of the city, taking in the packing houses, all the principal public buildings, churches and other prominent structures, has just been made by Mr. Searle of Chicago, who has been visiting ia the city far a few weeks. It I? finished In five different oil colors. He will make a bird's-eye view of Rhrerview park and one of Linwood park before he loaves the city. Mr. Searle hag been the landscape and sketch artist of the Rock IsCand rail rod for over twelve years. TUB- PRESS BADGE. The press representatives who attend the Trans-Mississippi Congress this week will be decorated with a big sunSower. made of silk and satin, with the ward "Press" printed oa the petals. The design was the suggestion oi Hss Maxwell, who is stenographer to Secrte:--y McKafght. Among the fea'ures of DewVs recepi shi'j'.d be a torch icnt procession r? tk n;en wb-v stood on the bridge wth a.n St Pau- Dispatch. KIDAPPING OF MARION CLARK. The news of national interest of the paste week has been the kidnapping of little Marion Ciark In -New York City. The child has not been recovered. The de scription is as follows: Age, 20 months; hair, golden, long and curly: weight, about thirty pounds; name, Marion Clark; dress, old rose colored cloth gown, white silk cape, with cap to match, black but toned shoes and black stockings. The police of the Central Park station were told on last Sunday that a child had been kidnapped under remarkable circum stances. The child, which was 29 months old, was in charge of a nurse girl known as Carrie Jones. Its parents are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clark of 159 East Sixty-fifth street. The matter was kept from the public one day. The child has not yet been found, al though the police have been bending every energy to fathom the mystery and re cover the chiid. The nurse girl is still at large. Mrs. Clark is a traveling salesman for a publishing house on Fifth avenue. He lives with his wife and family at a board ing house at the address given. He has two children Marion, 20 months old, and an Infant of 3 months. He earns a good salary, but is not wealthy. Carrie Jones, the nurse girl, was en gaged a week ago. She said she was a stranger, from the country, and that she was therefore without references. Her appearance was so attractive and reserved and her voice so soft and pleas ant, that the Clarks considered all this the best possible recommendation and engaged her. She proved to be one of the individuals who have no faults. She' was so modest, so self-effacing, so quiet, that all liked hor. No suitors or visitors called on the nurse, and when she was asked to name a night off she modestly said that she did not need any night out, as she had no friends to visit, no place to go here. On Sunday morning, according to the story of Mr. Clark, this paragon volun teered to take little Marion to Central park, which is but four blocks away. She started away, wheeling the child in a baby carriage. Within fifteen minutes the father start ed after her, and walked straight to where the baby carriage was standing, not far from the Arsenal. The carriage was empty, and after wait ing for awhile Clark was told by a pavil ion matron that the nurse had taken the child away, ostensibly to see the bears in the park menagerie, and had left the baby carriage in her charge. Clark hunted for the nurse and his child for quite awhile and then went home to dinner, hoping that by some chance the nurse would be there. She was not, and in the middle of the afternoon ho reported the case to the police. At almost the same time that he was making his report a boy with a strangely worded note called at his house. The note declared that the child was safe, but that if any publicity were given the matter and the police and newspapers should learn of it they won!d never see it alive again. Tho note stated that if everything re mained quiet, the Clarks would hear from the writers again on Monday or Tuesday. This noto -was signed with the word "Three." It was written on paper similar to that used in some newspaper offices. It made no demand for money, but it was evident that the demand would be made later. It spoke of the poverty of the writer. The letter was, from its phrasing and composition, evidently the "work of some one well used to writing. It was in ink and was printed. The lad who delivered the note said he had been approached at Sixty-first street and Second avenue by a young woman, who was much excited, and who gave him a dime to deliver the letter for her. The police understood that the woman had got off a northbound trolley car, but to a reporter tho boy said he first saw her running across the street, and did not know whether she had got off the car or not. She boarded a southbound trolley car and disappeared. As given to a reporter, tho boy's description of the young woman tallies closely with that of the nurse. The police were given the letter, and at once began an investigation. Among the nurse's belongings in her room at Mr. Clark' house were several blank sheets of paper, like that used for the threatening letter. This Is the story told by Arthur Clark, the father of the kidnapped child. "The girl who kidnapped my child was engaged by Mrs. Clark through an adver tisement in a morning paper on Sunday a week ago. "The advertisement gave no name, but asked that a reply be sent to a box num ber. A letter was sent to that box and to several others given by advertisers. "The girl answered the letter the next day. She said her name was Carrie Jones. She was very neat and refined In appear ance, and Mrs. Clark and myself were favorably Impressed by her. "We, of course, asked for references, but she had none, and explained with ap parent frankness, that she was a stranger in the city, having come here but two weeks before from her home In Deposit, N. Y. "She said she had been living with a young woman friend named Johnston-, in furnished rooms downtown. Her friend, she said, was a waitress in a restaurant. The first name of the Johnston woman, or her address, we do not know, but the girl gave tho impression that she also came from Deposit, and that was how they were acquainted. "She said sho did not want to work In a restaurant herself, and had therefore advertised for housework. "She was engaged s a nurse girl, a&d came to work oa Tuesday. Several times she spoke of Deposit as hsr home, and talked to Mrs- Clark of people ami places there. "Her behavior was apparently unexcep tionable. Sho paid strict attention to her duties. We were delighted with her. "She d no callers during the wk that she was with us, nor, ss far as I know, did she receive any letters. Mrs. Clark asked her what night out she preferred to have, but the girl replied that she realty did not want one at aH. as, being s stran ger in the city, there was no place where she could go. Svral times during te week she took Bttle Xarkm over to Central park. Once or twice sbe went alone, and ones or twice with my sUter-fn-luw. 3Cjr steer-hi-law remember now, though It did not Itn- pceas her st the time, that Carrie !"w remarkable familiarity with the wirdiBg p-f-.s f t pa'-k. "On Sunday at 1 o'clock I was wafkmg little Martin up and down on th jrfdew k ii fr-r.t r njy home when Carrie cam j e-5 with t-.e baby carriage ar.4 said she Wj' i tako to the aark. I let her tafce fc t chld. but t'Ai. her t-? be back by I c ock. which was the hour for our Sunday din ner. "At a quarter-past 11 o'clock I walked over to the park myself. I had no reason for doing so. It seems to me now as if it was some sort of premonition. "I walked past the Arsenal and under the archway of Sixty-fifth street and saw the baby carriage standing in front of the pavilion there. "I thought nothing of this at first, but after a whi!e asked the matron where the nurse was who was in charge of that car riage. 'Oh. she went up the path there.' said the matron. "I inquired further and found that the nurse had asked the matron to look out for the carriage whfla she took the child to see the bears, but that, instead of walk ing toward the menagerie section, the nurse had gone toward Seventv-second street. "The matron thought nothing strange of this, thinking only the nurse was taking the child to where donkey rides are given, and I did not think anything of it myself. "I went to where the donkeys were, and looked and waited, and went over to the Mall and looked everywhere, but could see neither the nurse nor Marlon. I began to get uneasy, and at 1 o'clock I went home, thinking the nurse might have lost her tvay, and could not find the baby carriage, but had got out of the park and gone homo. "Carrie was not there, and after a hur ,t..j .it i;cu uer, j. went back to the park. I again looked all around and then reported to the police. They told me the nurse was yrooaoiy lost, but wou:d be found all right. "I looked around again, and then went home. There I found a boy who had brought the note signed 'Three.' and tell ing me that my child was stolen. "I detained the boy, and sent for the police. "It seems that the boy knew nothing of the case, having been given the note by a weman who met 'him on the street and gave him a dime to deliver it. 'That Is all I know. I cannot Imagine any cause for the stealing but the desire for money, and yet. as I am far from a rich man, I cannot see why I was chosen as a victim. 'The girl had quarreled with no one in the house; had no ill will toward anyone, so far as I know or can learn, nor can any theory of Insanity or hysteria explain her action. It seems to me to be a plot, carefully laid, to kidnap my child and that money was the object." Freddie Lang, who delivered tho note signed "Three." at the Clarke home, is a ongnt ntUe boy of 13. He lives In 'the rear house at 54S West Fifty-first street. The boy tells his story as follows: "I as around at Reynold's stables about 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when Pad dy Mulvey asked me to take a note over to his sister, at 113G Second avenue. He told me not to go up into the house before 4 o'clock, as she wouldn't be there till that time. He gave me car fare and I rode across In the Fifty-ninth street car. got out at Third avenue, walked up to Sixty first street and through to Second ave nue "Then I stood near the corner of Second avenue, between a saloon and a grocery store, waiting for 4 o'clock. I had been standing there about ten minutes when I saw a girl running across the avenue toward me. "I can't say whether she got out of a car or not. "She ran up to me and said, 'Little boy. will you take a letter to ISO East Sixty fifth street?' I said I would, and she un wrapped a handkerchief she carried In her hand ami took out the letter. "She said: 'Are your pockets clean?' "I put my hand In my coat pocket and took out a little match-box that I found, and said. 'Yes, ma'am.' 'Then she put the letter In my pocket and told me to be sure and take It out by the corner so as not to dirty it. She put a dime in my hand and said, 'Now. hurry.' "I started for the corner of Slxty-flfth street, and she walked quickly ahead of me. I stopped at the corner and watched her. She went down Second avenue and got on a downtown car. between Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets. "I took the letter to 150 East Sixty fifth street, and an old lady let me in. She told me to wait for an answer. Thon they called me up into Mrs. Clark's room and asked mo who gave me the letter. I said a girl gave it to me at the corner of Sixty-first street and Second avenue. "The girl who gave me the letter was about 20 years old, I should think. She was short and had dark brown hair. I cant' remember how she was dressed, ox cept that she wore a dark straw hat like boys wear, and there was a soldier button on one side of the hat." Patrick Mulvey and his sister verified the boy's story. After his release by the police he went home, but said nothing about his adventure. He said that he for got all about it. Statement of Miss Madden, matron of the pavilion beside which tho baby car riage was left: "It was between 11 and 12 o'clock that a nurse asked me to watch her carriage j tor her. I had noticed the nurse a few days before, because sho wore a very short apron. Even now I doubt if I could recog nise her face. "She said sho wanted to show the bears to the child, and I said to hurry up, be cause I could not watch the carriage very ions. She started off toward Seventy-second street, htstead of toward the bears, but I had noticed her pick up her purse from the carriage and thought she was going to the donkeys. "I did not see her asain, and In a little while Mr. Clark came and asked about her. I noticed nothing unusual is her manner or actions." The note brought by Freddie Lang to Mrs. Clark Is as follows: Mrs. Clark:-; Do not look for your sarso and baby. They sro saXe Jo sue posses sion, hare they wU remain for the pres ent. U the matter is kept, out of the hands of the police and newopeen. you will get year baby back safe and sound. If instead you make a great Urn- of k and publish it an rer w wtQ see to H. that you will never see her a3s axam. We are driven to this by the fact ?t we cannot pet work, and one of m has a thOA dying through want, of prop-r treatment and nourishment. Your baby t f and hi good haae The nurse H t.: with h- If cr-v!vT kftvt oHt t-1 wi". hAr from uj o& MwOoaj c Treyl'i fSigiVHt) "TWKgg The jy t wa written in lvt. T!w !te st v.y d.kate. far.ine t thrtn m: nes. a5 il,. j'i jthat'jr I u- v ry T"?r i w a f 'tr----z r. !p&er ued w sxauiar to that used by seme aewsopr I wbs wht, ur-gtaz- h v2 mi hj -in Inch 5- .x r in r'j" wa out tn r wri"-r Wj :'tjv v rat ri--p-.r r tertei u.i as sscn familiar with u rhii:.ax Tm writing wou!d use. was pJaced beneath the Inserted letter. Beneath the word 'Three" were three straight lines, in a "bank. such as are famlHar to these who handle printers' "copy." It was for money that Baby Marion Clark was kidnapped. The flrst word that reached th stricken parents after their child had -vanished was a brutal demand for money, but the fact that the fathor is a poor man who. by his own admission, could not raise more than a few hundred dollars, made it seem incredible that the abduction of his baby was not the work of some enemy, and done for the purpose of revenge. But the abductors kaew what they were about. They had not only planned with fiendish nicety, but had reckoned upon the out-pouring of public sympathy toward Mr. and Mrs. Clark. They knew that every heart must turn toward a poor man and his wife, robbed of their little one, and that money would be offered for tbe child's ransom, even if her parents were not possessors of a sum sufficient. In that they reasoned weM. The story of the sufferings of that father and moth er has gone home to every right heart. The New York Journal offered yeaterday a reward of $2,000. With this substantial Initiative, other proffers followed, and last night the offered rewards for the Infor mation which should lead to tbe child's return reached up into other thousands. The efficacy of this measure wia be ap parent very speedily is perhaps apparent already, for Within a few hours after the offer of tho reward was made pubhc, aewa was given to Mr. .Clark at police heed quarters which lifted a part of the heavy load which has for days lain on his heart, and sent him home with a cheering word for the distracted mother. There is unhappily too strong reason for fearing that relief, oven such as It is, has come too late to avert tbe utter col lapse, against which the wretched woman has been battling. Her physician report ed to a Journal reporter that partial paralysis of the face had set in and that she was on the verge of complete pros tration. The father, torn by his fears and worn by sleeplessness, holds himself together by mighty effort, and even after the encour aging report which was given to him yes terday by the police, seemed half numb and insensible to the hope with which they tried to Inspire him. He tried to speak cheerfully and hope fully, but it was all marked by effort which told more plainly than words could that he did not more than half believe the good news announced to him at Captain McClusky's office. After returning home yesterday he wan dered restlessly from room to room, and at little intervals cama out upon the street and walked nervously a little way. arm in arm with his brother, with whom he talk ed in excited fashion, gesticulating much. Ho bore with the questioning of news paper men and others whose business made it necessary to make inquiries of him, but he answered wearily. Only once he smiled, a dim, desperate mockery of a smi!o. At Intervals he stretched himself out upon the sofa, and then, at some ques tion which appealed to his hopes or fears, sat bolt upright again, quietly. At tba least referenco to the fact that the girl had been taken Into service without pre senting a reference of any kind, his face flushed and his voico grew petulant and angry. "Now, don't go over that again. I know all about that. It is the same they, and the same they ail the time." Then he calmed down again. At the sound of the postman's whistle he would spring to bis feet in excitement and start hurriedly toward the door, but his brother, quiet. Importurbabie, and never absent from his side, said always "I'll co." Returning, he handed to the miserable father whatever letters had been brought. These in the course of the day were many. Particularly in the moraine was tbe post man's burden large. The carriers on the Sixty-fifth street route say that the Clark family receives more letters now than any other family or business Arm In the dis trict. From these letters, tis thoy were turned over to him. Mr. Clark tore the envelopes with feverish baste. Ho devoured their contents in a manner that was heart breaking to watch. There was just an In stant's gleam of hope aad then the old deadnss came into his eyes and be crumpled the missives Into a package and thrust them into hrs already overladen pockets, and the one discooraging word. "Nothing." "They are all of tbe mm sort. be said to the reporter, who sat with him in tbe darkened parlor. 'Th? ore from clairvoyant and all sort? of people, who all suggest things that have already bo come old stories to nte. 'There Is no word from the people who have robbed me of my Mtrte girl. There Is no writing that looks rate thai printed script in the letter they soot oa by the boy. I am told by tho police that there is good ground for hope that she win -om back to us very soon, but It Is hard boo ing ifbon w do not see her face nor boar her voice, nor gt any word of hor. Anyone who bars had any Idea that oObm existing disagreement btrtweeu Mr. Cu and his wife might in some -way account for the disappearance of the child wmld soon have tbe Idea dispelled by tnouiry among the neighbors aad friends of the family who know them host. There can t-j so doubt that t ptreuts of Marlon Oar He nappCy tgthr, and so far can be learned, have r-r bad tbe least trouble since they weft mar ried, three or four roars ago. Mrs. Bogan.who feeeoe the boartbi house where the ClarJts lhre. to'.d a re porter yesterday that a haopler and more contented married cojb cwnd not be found. She Mid that Mr Clark w very fond of hi w f m that bis grUs pleasure was to re a hem -with h-r jd their eafidrn He ws perfectly wrapped op In his fam'Tr Kra,Bogaa has only atx baardr V-'aW the C&srlu and all but -we of h'rr are women. The on'y oa who taQcd t- s Journal rr'-s,a;ve w-rv5r' al that Mr Rrraj s!d. so jHdi "Mr a-d Mr Car h.-)c h worW of ea-'h -vr i-.d a -.t u sr as have otrm rmarxd their devotloa f ea-h other and their foods for tv j Aijt-1 if fc! ary V'4 w! s ks wr Br s4 w- r vaat. Mrs. Rogan said that was not at all surprising, as tbe girl certainty looked like a wait-bred person, bath in the house and on the street. Mrs. Rogan ays that naturally she ia bothered to death 1th persons whe come to the bouse out of mere curiosity to In quire in person for news and express their sympathy for the parents. Mrs. Rogan says she cannot account for what has happened and finds it Jest as difficult to advance even a reasonable theory today as she did oa the day the crime occurred. When a reporter catted at the heme of Mr. and Mrs, Clark betweoa S: and P- m. Thrsday. two Central ed3ce de tectives were cumin.? down th They denied their Identity, and declared they wore boarders in tbe house. At Sixty-fifth street and Lexington avenue they were joined by a man who. although ho hurried away with averted face, looked suspiciously uke Chief Devery. Amemant tater Mrs. Rogan admitted the men woro detectives. Just before this these same men had an interview with Mr. Clark that bad such a cheering effect upon aim that be went out for a Httki stroll, droppiag casually into one or two shops in the neighborhood where he Is in the habit pf trading. Speaking of his visit. Julius Oeetse. who has an apothecary store at Sixty-fifth street and Lexington avenue, told a re porter: 4T don't know what Mr. Clark has heard hut he was j to here and d be had re bop now than at any time Hnc the child disappear. He afco looked brighter than when I sow him tost. It may be that the Journal Wg reward hss encouraged him. but I am hed to Wnk b has heard something from the police, too." C. F. Boettsker who kops R nk and RS toro next deor to Ooets. Mw -Vr Clark about tbe sasso time and r nrhed that he looked brlhtr It Is nonsense to soy ,ht this men know, anything about tbe whereabouts or his child." d Mr. oBttsfc,r. -j kBrtTr him well by sight, as he need to Mp Jn here very nfcht to get s fresh-lsW egg to take home to his Utile girl Since this thing occurred he bno aged ten year, and lost as many pounds of nosh. Besides h!a suffering from tbe loss of bis child, be has the added sngulsh of Nrtnp forced to wt nees bis wife's mental agony. The hearts an their neighbors bu-rf t- .k of both, Aaked whether be knew Carrie Jonwi Boettsker ss Id he only -,w her once. whn shs went to his store to make x)m pur- ior me ciarks, who have an ac count there. "I noticed hor closely when nhe toM me to charge it to the Clarks. beoause I hid never seen her before." said the trades wan. "She kmked so quiet aad ladylike that I was satlsfled It was sJl right, and aat her down as a relative visiting thm It never occurred to me that she was a domestic." If the person who carried off Marion Clark do not bring her back pretty noon or if they are not discovered, the moral crime of murder may poxalble be added to that of kldnapplnci The less of her child may kill Mrs. Arthur Clark. Mrs. Chtrk's condition yesterday was most serious. She did not ave bar room. except to rush to the hallway and peer over the banisters every time tbe bell rang. She simply could not control her. self st such moment, for rh ring mlcht mmn new from her lost darling. When there was nothing to attract her attention, she found It lmposstbta to Wp KJei for a moment. It was evident to sll about her that she was Mfferm? terribir After a moment of apparent calm would begin to eob hysterically and, Pitch ing up her 3-montbWMl baby, would strain bar to her breast, meaning that she st least, could not be taknn from hr. Again, she would walk norvootly up and down the roonuovory now am tbn kneel ing and praying fo tho ird to send her back her child. Time sad again rhe Md "Ob. why did sho not tab aJt th little, property wo, have and leave ass my Mar lon? At such times bar husband would U aad took at her suffering, and his eyes would All with fear at tho thought that he bsd no message who which ho eoufd orwooi her. r. 45. J. ryxeff. of 7 Xaai Meaty, sixth street, tho narks ragular fasafly phystHsn. attended her ymtesuay. Ho said to a Journal reporter lst evoutng: "Usually I should r-tmut to lafk sJXMit th condition of ,r of my pftat. Bt this case has Mrctd sorb wMospnd attention that T make It sa sxropOoo as far nm I ran wi'h proprioty. "M' Clark t sufferhvr from a form of farb.1 paralysis 'cimk-afty known aamif.N-gj. it dhutn her fees oa th nvt 1 and max it duamfi fr k. lo ber right eve. Tho rlrht emr "f hr mouth hr drawa oown. jfrr ndl'i.,n to h,t ,f a dunrnrtad woasan aid suffer i.wr Hw b a caos of c)mp'f nnrvm pr'.fratlosi. X w pr-rrtti-ar aeds'iv- rr hi tho hops that he mj! ct som vp M- Mark r-r-H-A many eapfr-son "f nm&athy t'rm rangers her mends are ir.g eTr.tjtfnr ta the world to dfcKrat her !fi f-m the casua lty that has bf v,r -p UF tint tao snoca and train may aff-t fe M- TINTS'! u bas sine tha Cri b.& i there J M- R'fs -o said that h j trrt" M- a- V- 'nr M i 6M not gfe any soraevmra anna -lf flh mfe;y eluded i Vvix VPt' ,nf TfTB TlUrrRMATKr?f aT "t For tao past jxy dars gir frnastiOQ wrTm h Sn and f. g tn oa xm -jr m yt' ;"y 'wnr. n efc ni th 'iijr In gesr Mors t"v-. eo fi f-J T the tfr fro f, on z" mi ttjjt etrvets h-s ,n. end v- swe, re'-, 'x en o- ,t'.- eoa'a ju br.'-, I am-':v m of psi-.' ta wv Vu. y' M otto. -A in v. it derate.1 Man f 4 a&m V' w as iar-- "od o:-.ra put: -g ,nsfcvc Ta-v -w SWr.S's tr4. S tR r j w ft wr-" e-f k4 aid ri? 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