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Show The Kidnappers. Second Ward, Salt Lake Crrr, June 7, 1877. Editors Herald: Yesterday evening the half niattr that stole Ursula, the motherless child of Mr. James McKnight, lawfully law-fully adopted by me, came to my house in the company of one of her accomplices, named Bishop, and said ahe would give up the child; that she had been misinformed w to the treatment of the child, and other thing of like import. She further said she did not give any statements to the Herald and Tribune, but that they were given by some of the neighbors. She also protested that she wan not in the ward when the child was taken out of my house; bul when confronted with the facts, she acknowledged in the next breath that ahe put the ladder up to the window aud stood there while the child came down. She toW Mr. Davies on Wednesday Wed-nesday morning when he went to get the child that she had an order from Judge Smith (0 take the child, and yesterday evening she utterly denied ever having said so. What a reliable creature! Respectfully, etc., Lydia B. Davies. |