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Show A MOST AIDACIOIS KIIN Al flNCi. The I'ollce Will Chat the AVnmau to Af. tlra If Xecoatarr, New Oiii.EAXs, La.. July IV Mine. Leon Arland has distinguished herself by committing a most audacious kid-napping, kid-napping, and temporarily baffling the city police. The woman has a history .She w as a billet dancer hi Hie French Opera house troupe in the season of 1fT0-7. Her husband, a chorus singer, died the next fall. Soon afterward she married one Massin, won died in a few mouths. Ill IST'.l she made the acquaintance ac-quaintance of a wealthy druggist, Ix-on Arland. They married, and lor a w hile were happy. In tho early part of 17 Arland suspected his wife's fidelity, w as indignant at her intemperance, and their quarrels ended in hi petting a divorce. di-vorce. Ho was awarded liis child, although al-though he gave Mine. Arland J.HKI0. Sho left town and soon opeued a beer garden in Algeria, Africa. Last year Arland died, and tho girl, now 10 years ol nge. was left w lfi Mitt Helen Fit i-giilald, i-giilald, principal of a fashionable boarding school. ; Mrs. Arland retnrned a few mouth ago aud sued for the jms-H'ssiou of the child. This was denied hv the court. Then she decided to kidnap the child. She and her 18-year-old son hy her tirst husband drove to the school." obtained admission. and, while the lhy tired upon the teachers with a revolver, the woman seized the child and dragged her to a carriage. The child w as concealed con-cealed in town one night, taken into the country, and Thursday night put on board the Illinois Central train bound for Chicago ami New York, whero the forcibly reunited Arland family jiroposes embarking fr Kurope. Supt.'llenuessy says the police are on the trail, and will capture tin: party ami bring the child back if he has to go to Africa. , -. |