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Show BROOKS WRESTED. Sporting Brooks Was Bagged in Portland Oregon and will Soon be in Salt Lake City. HE KIDNAPPED HIS OWN CHILD, The Story of a Devoted Mother's Tireless Tire-less Search for Her Stolen Son as She Told The Times. It was expected that Deputy Marshal McGarry would arrive in Salt Lake today to-day with a man who is well known in the sporting circles of this city. The man is William C. Brooks and some months ago he kidnapped Albert C. Brooks and left this part of the country for the northwest. Mr. Danielson or Brooks was ssen last evening by a Times "reporter and as she is happy at the prospect of having her lost boy with her once more. She said: "I live in Logan and got a divorce nearly five years ago iroui W. C. Brooks. The court said when the divorce di-vorce was granted that Albert was to stay with me until he was sixteen years of age and that Brooks was to pay $8 per month for the support of the child but hedid not pay anything. My husband and I used to live in Salt Lake, where my son, Albert C. Brooks, was born. Oh! ho is a sweet boy and is about ten years of age. Brooks is a native of Plymouth, Ply-mouth, England, and is about thirty-nine thirty-nine years of nge. He is a brick moulder by trade aud has been a sailor and worked at various trades. We did live happy at times, but when. Brooks got drunk, which happened often, ho came home and abused rae and destroyed the furniture. I always kept Albert dressed neatly and his pretty face attracted attention. at-tention. A Salt Lake party once offered me $500 to let them adopt Albert, but I could not think of parting with my darling boy. Well, matters drifted along and after I obtained the divorce and supported Albert and myself by taking in washing and cleaning houses, Brooks lived some time with Mrs. Goldstiker, on Third South street, Salt Lake. "Some time during last July Albert and I left our home in Logan to visit my daughter, Mrs. Josephine Anderson, Ander-son, in Provo. After we had been there a few days, I started to visit some friends in the country, leaving Albert in charge of his half-sister, Mrs. Anderson. Ander-son. While Albert was playing in the yard on the 27th of July, Brooks drove up, and, seeing my boy, asked Mrs. Anderson if he could take Albert out for a ride. She gave him permission, but said that Albert must be brought back. Brooks and the boy went off together to-gether to Pleasant Grove, where they got on the cars in the evening and came to Salt Lake. The next day Brooks sold what goods he had in this city for $1.10, and before leaving Salt Lake lie told parties that he was going to New York and finally to Europe. That night Brooks and Albert were seen in Logan where he bought a mouth organ for the boy. Some time later he aud the boy took the cars for the northwest. north-west. "Mrs.' Goldsticker, the woman with whom Brooks had been living, left Salt Lake on tho 29th of July, aud they mot somcwheres and have been living together sinco. "Indeed sir, I can hardly describe to you the sufferings I have experienced since my boy has been stolon. I am a poor woman and oarn my living by working at any respectable business. What little money I had and could earn was spent in searshing for my darling child. I even went as far as Tacoma in hopes of finding him right past Portland whore he was but I did not know it then. Kind people in Logan and Salt Lake interested interes-ted themselves in my cause and assisted me may God bless them. Three long, weary months passed until the first tidings of Albert's whereabouts were received. Yes, Brooks was arrested in Portland and he and Albert will soon be in Salt Lake. I am very thankful to the people who so kindly helped me in my trouble." |