The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1908, Page 2

< KIDNAPPED BOY'S OTHER ADDS TO ~ NSTERY INCAS Mrs. McCloud Now Denies That Father, a Lawyer, Killed Son to Hide Scandal. THINKS IT ACCIDENT. Husband Left Woman After Revelations of Her Early Life. ‘Mrs, Frances McCloud, who last night fdentified the clothing of a boy found @rowned tn Raritan Bay as of her seven-year-old son Frank, created sur- prise among Brooklyn detectives work- ing on the case to-day by repudiating charges she had prev kidnapping and murder father of the child. She says she has no dou body ad in Ne y her son, who disappeared on § but denies that s Of the child can e door of the mnan she originally accused. le Harole, a fine-looking voy, who livéd with Mrs. Sentle Bennett at No. %3 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, went out on the street to play a week ago last Wednesday evening, and did not return. His mother, living at No. 205 Schermerhorn street, was notified, ana | she hastened to the Classon avenue sta- | tion. fously made of against the belie Gave Name to Police. | There she said that although she was marrie) to a man named Alexander McCloud, a contracting carpenter, who deserted her some time ago, McCloud | wag not the father of the boy. She gave the name of the man she said was the father, and spent several days with detectives looking for him. Yesterday she read in the newspapers | that the body of a boy dressed in a| blue sailor sult had been taken from | Raritan Bay at Bedford, N. J. She went to Red Bank and identified the| clothing as that worn by her son at| the time of his disappearance. The body had been buried. Mrs, McCloud said in Red Bank that | She felt sure the father of the boy had | adbuctei and murdered him, in order to hide the scandal of his birth. She added that .ae had met the man on | the street in Brooklyn three weeks ago for the first time in years, and had told him where the boy was. He con- fided to her at that time that he was golng to be married, and said he had a successful law practice. Returns to New York. | Coroner Tetly, of Red Bank, expected Mrs. McCloud to visit him this morn- ing, and go more thoroughly into the matter of {dentification. Instead she returned to New York, and at the home of Mrs. Bennett in Brooklyn de- clarod it to be her belief that her son wandered down to Wallabout Basin, a tew blocks from where he disappearea, | and fell in. The tide could have swept he body from the East Kiver to Raritan Bay. Halt a dozen detectives were sent out to find the man in the case despite Mri McCloud's strange reversal of opinion. Thus far no trace of him has been dis- covered at addresses given by Mrs. | McCloud. | Mss, McCloud wher questioned by an Eveiing World reporter this afternoon | faid she took out a policy for 6 on the | Mfe of her son three months age, and extects to collect It. She prdd Mrs. Fen nett $1.50 a week for caring for him, ved nd tthe Scherrnerhorn street address because she had to pay two fares to get to her place of employment from 1 Kalb avenue, and could travel for one fare in the subway from Schermerhorn | street, | Woman Aided Kidnappl; On the day of his disappearance Harold and a number of little chaps were playing in the street, when a trol- ley wire broke at De Kalb and Vander- | bit avenues. ‘he children gathered around the sputtering wires, when @ 50: Help Wanted To-Day! @e Advertised for in The Morning World's Want Directory. FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 1908 1 Housework 2 / 1 1 1 é 1 2 Ma ‘ so oM Bricklayers Mil u Wushelmnet : +4 But ae “ Butt Photgramiers Painters ql Pollsters Fy | without result. THE EVENING ‘Kidnapped Boy Found Drowned; | Mother Who Said Father Killed Him. MAN FE FEE man called to them to go Harold was not seen after that. On Wednesday night, when Haro}. lid not appear at the Bennett home, . Bennett went to his mother, and the two made a search for him, but Then théy reported the matter to the police, The police heard of the man and woman in the cab, and home | heard also of the boy running into the stable, fearing the police would cate! m, They were inclined to believe the story of the cab was born of youthful tmagination. For a time the police of the Classon avenue station tried to make It appear that the boy had run away from home. Later they suggested that he had prob- ably been carried off by some relative. The police had no ‘dea then that Mc- Cloud was not the father of the child, and that McCloud had quit his wife when she confessed to him some after their marriage that the ch father was a lawyer, lyn a ttle less than eight years ago. At that time he was a medical studeat at Columbia. medicine to law. When her child was nearly a year old the father abandoned her, Her marriage to Alexander McCloud, 4 contracting carpenter, followed, and he left her after she had told him con- cerning the child, Mrs. McCloud told the police that she has not seen the father of her son for years until three weeks ago last night, whoa she met him on the streets of Brooklyn. She said the man asked her many questions, and she told him where his son was living and how she was compelled to work to support nim and ‘The man listened attentively, he says, also t ado mseif ‘to convince her he was soon to be married and that his past sins were hateful to him. Identified the Clothes, Mrs. McCloud learned through the newspapers of the finding of a boy's body between Belford und Port Mon- mouth, Late last night she journeyed to Red Bank, and from thére went w Coroner Tetley to thi rd undert ing estabishment at Belford. Mrs. \ Cloud described her lost son accurat to the Coroner, and the descript that of the little unidentified body fo! in the bay, When the clothes were brought out for Mrs. McCloud she ic ed ene! garment. When she could control emotion she told the Coroner the of the boy's birth, of her marria) McCloua, the separation, her efforts to support herself and the boy and meeting the boy's father on the str Then she told of her suspicions—ti the father had kidnapped his chiid 1 un put him to death to Wipe out the scan- Ga) that might prevent his marrying the wealthy New York woman. Mother's Sad Story, told The E ning Wor ad story of unfortun e dead boy, She said tha oud came to house an} @ room seyen and one-half “Sone ‘old me,” said Mrs, Bennett, ‘thnat she Was married to a man living on North Oxford street Who was a stu dent in Columbia University, @nd that the marriage had been Kept secret fror the husband's mother. She went by th name of this man. nalden ni was Palmer, and she from Ph as he Ome “BROMO QUINENC 2 slgma ture of P . wee This man practises before the courts | 5, Weal of both New York and Brooklyn. According to the story told to-day by |W. Mrs. McCloud, she met the father of her child at the Bijou Theatre in Brook- | id her enough) dee Dax. et VIRSFRANCES ae MsCLOUD, ——— knew where t many ago she told me her child having rances told the police 1 and jt seems strange to me that they Later he changed from | have not located the man.” ——=.——_. WENT TO SCRANTON WITH DETECTIVES | New Yorker Visits Hotel There and Causes Arrest of Hi Wife and Actor. e tru ruom was by Alderman Milla sngractors ed and Twenty: | BROAD TRIES 10 tempts to Break in Door. twenty-one, who is five feet six Inc arraigned before Magistri the Harlem Court to-da attom of Mr West One H te Crane Miys Susan Honesteel. Miss Susan Bonesteel, who charge against th said t as she sn but h ref ousy Was beg: 1 when he altered too far and told him s fact. she had 1 Toward n manded to see her. He was through a keyhole*that if he didn't! crowd himself out of the hallway he| night ‘Moon Face" | would be a im, and he ested, Th! him. When Magist a foon that you |countenance was shining. Wa |fat hand gracefully and | said ate Crane turned | | | | ra smiling, j truth in it, and former Attorney-General Mayer. “You are, are you 2 | sitting up sharply. Jit you're a friend of Pr velt and Julius Caesar. Very much crestfallen, moved to tears, the br swe a Was led away to tne ; n. ————_____ BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. WORLD, FRIDAY, Muldoon, Whom Susan Bone- | Savins and Their Servants steel Calls ‘“Moonface,” At- | John Bradley Muldoon, a youth of hea LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 9—The tall and an even five feet broad, was in Savin, located on Ocean avenue, near| , charged with the Elberon Hotel, at Elberon. was | ng to break into the apartment Fannie Bonesteel, at No. 308 to-4 ired and Twenty-ffth Street. for the purpose of carrying off | in the house when the fire broke out| ts slender, nineteen, and very pretty, aP-| had to flee with little or no clothing. | peared with her mother to press the two young men. She| about $75,000. d loved "Moon Face, red to Muldoon, ng to pall reached the ecéne the house was prac- | the tically gutted. eman friend) the servants were taken into the home ecause that| of a neighbor and given some clothing | end had shaken her and cared for during the night uidoon) Was going nformed Muldoon | didn't want to see his “moon ound any more, whereat she BET MONT DENIES d herself in her mother's flat.) ou| BLACKLISTING BOY is had enraged d two friends were tak- g down the door and smashing in the 1 whea Policeman Kuntz arrested to man’s round, ruddy a he | “Your Honor, there ain't a word of Im a friend of John Lyons * said the Justice, Well, I don't care | 4m about giving him a discharge. He | ident Roose-| handed up a letter of Oct. 19, addressed | : them you and your friend will | ceiving tt. ere with me, She called frequently to | Workhous ojtojthe see him. | ~INFIRE PERIL AS COTTAGE BURN to a nen ree BABY BUY HAD ITCHING HUMOR Which Broke Out in Different Places | —Nothing Would Help Hin— | Mother Almost in Despair—Skin | Quickly Healed Withouta Scar and Trouble Has Never Returned SINCE USING CUTICURA MOTHER GIVES IT PRAISE ee “Several months ago, my little boy, Dow two and a half years old, began to break out with itching sores, began to doc- tor him, and as goon as I got them healed up incneplace they would break out in another I was almost in despair, Icould not getanything that would help him, Oneeven- ing I read a tes- timonial from @ lady who had cured her little boy with Cuticura, I began to uso the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and after using them three times, the sores com- sitors for the menced to heal, He is now well, and Awake to Find House at | Elberon in Flames. | —__ | (Special to The Evening World.) handsome summer home of F. W.| almost totally destroyed by fire early | Mr. Savin, who is a woil knows Now York banker, and his wife wee and {t was with difficulty: that they gct | out In safety. A couple of servants u!s0) It is estimated the loss will amount to | Word was sent to this city for | paratus to fight the fire, but when !t | Mr. and Mrs. Savin and Mr. Savins's New York offices are No. | 6 Broadway. WHO DIDN'T “‘TIP.” (Continued from First Page.) AMERICA’S RICHEST into the pot a sear is left on his body. | ‘They write my discharge, but stopped and ote bave never returned nor left him witk tore up the paper. Then he sald: WOMEN UNHAPPIEST, T took te bad blood, as one would think, Cuti- cura Remedies are the best I have over doors tried, and they are surely great. I rooms, #W~ung shall always have them in the house, ed the new ar- handy, and ehall highly recommend them to any one whois suffering likewise, . , Icannot give them too much praise. the final word. Mfrs, William Geeding, 102 Washington agnates whose §t,, Attica, Ind., July 22, 1907.” “What o you that!" :| TICHING TORMENTS another boy go.’ Then he said: ‘Johnny, | I'm sorry, but if I cave vou a discharge (ey Mr. Belmont would kick me off the race track.’ "* norees and’ wilt hove to ict you ana} CARDINAL DECLARES Page.) tinued from pursuit of mad and meaningless luxur Mr. Rand undertook to explam how | i7 Brativing tee Pee John Freit came to be In Bell’s stable, | POSSESS HARP T ae ae ism you speak of is entirely just. and Trainer McCormick's statement to| yi Oy ta i. deplored as much bs Americans as by foreigners.” the fore! ——.. You're held in|to Mrs. Frelt by Belmont. Mrs, Freit| “But Dr. McPhail compared the wo From little patches of eczema, tetter, |$1.0W bonds, and if you don't furnish | declared she could not remember re-| MAN Who works to a tick dow. 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RESIGNS. See oo tour to Purity the io him. | for to-morrow |the Club, and therefore privileged. PEPE ON Oct. 9—The Marqu He eabe. Beato Mase eS Coe two-year-olds | if | iden View A Yankee Daughter Dank GD oon ree miles, anctus Oy Waterspeed aoe 1137 133 aotye 104 2 112 21108 05 108, 102 92 arolds and 1a furlong H. Harris rankle Dwance ¢lalmed’ ae, Brook Cup Steepie-| of the circulation was among members. Handicap; up-{all read the Calendar, It has a very | Dimond. Studded Medal For Most Popular Giant ‘The Giants are playing the best baseball that New York has witnessed in years. They are out for the pen- nant, and from now until the close of the season the struggle promises to be the most exciting in the history of the league. As an encouragement to the individual members of the team The Evening World will present to the most popular player a diamond-studded gold medal. All New York fans can express their preierence through The Evening World coupon below, which will be printed daily in the Noon, Baseball and Fina! edftions: EVENING WORLD BASEBALL PRIZE. For the most popular member of the New York National League Tea 1 vote [OF ..se++ ever cceveereverveereee Name ..--scccce Address......+ Address Letters to Baseball Editor, Evening World, P,Q, Box 1,354 ee erererere "peg nee ‘Wr-Mailed Free, Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases. anustice, Amend denied a, motion to} “Yes,” he a | dismiss the compluint, saying he pre- ing etter. I was quite i [aes to leave it to the jury to deter- but am fully recovered. | "Henry A. Buck, pubdiisher of the Rac-| forced rest of the ocean trip bene tng Calendar, wae the first wiinens for | me." the deren: He testified that the pub- ere clely Iieatlonie acto smedunyachenvannsyiCluby | masneeeaneuamnsmor thence ich paid his salary, and 90 per cent |* Privy Seal sor advance! age. The Ear! | ne office, and in th tfolto of State for the Co onies, feeds to Write for Mustrated Catalogues ASPERFEL ogee | He aimitted 09 croxe-es amination that | outsiders might buy the Kacing sae | | ‘cr trom newsdeniers, John J. Iyland, trainer for Belmont | The Effects of Opiates. | decd Freit’s stcry thit he had whipp | him, but admitted that on one ovcasion | Tt INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various 5S’ AREER ire ' “Bowery Savings 144 LOWELY, pane Block?” i |ehent the boys wes texersising, «©. hore preparations, allof which are narcotic, is well known, Even in the | and falled to heed hie signnl to hotd thy smallest doses, if continued, these opiates cauro changes in the £uno- re i , ions ant wth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, causing Hae aay aa an mecnoan nel poh fitty Smental perversion, a craving for alvohol or narcotics in later life, Belmont on the Stand. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying ‘Wort area result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet | August Belmont followed Trainer Hy- POC infancy, The rule among pliyeicians is chat children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, an? only then if unavoidable. ; Tho administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and other naivotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be a party Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing lcss than a crime to doso them willfully with narcotics, To inaugurate the Fall season we are offering unusual inducements throughout the store. | Jand on the witness stand. In response to first question as to whether he was a racing man, he replied “I am a banker, and have been for twenty years. For my own pleasure | have maintained a racing stable. Mr. Belmont said the boy's story that he shook him because he did not tip his hat was not true. | (Ra ein Dalene ot ete, Tete ‘Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears the | personally, but’ that it was done hy signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, ~ KL tan: Beeman; eae vland with is sanction as a member % °g ; Rene oe the “locker “Club. He ‘was no; | @enaine Castoria always bears the signature of Zs A ree, stone, Actuated by Male>, and inserted it’ to arar. 50 jcomply with the rules of the club, “Tr felt that Johnny |g case that the boy ought to be posted,” | |he said, “Did you Know that others besides racing men and members of the Jockey Club read the Racing Calendar?” asked | Mr, Goldzier. | “Those who attend the races do not | was so flagrant dies Waltham atch, sold Meats td’ throughout v engraved limited elreulation, but I don’t know | how many copies.” Not Born and Bred, Trainer Hyland said that Frett went down to Jameica while he worked for Belmont. and asked for a Job, but tha: he was asked If he had fis discharge from Belmont, and when he replied !n the negative was told to go back and | spe (Trade Mark.) 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