Show i TilE THE STE LI STEALING G OF OP CHILDREN nEX ft j Of OC all the crimes climes possible to man the stealing 01 ot i. i S children Is U the e very wor worst l. l It ba has less of even en the Cheap i K money inducement than has an any other othel which Inflicts r I pain haul and nud sorrow or 01 which Involves olves the perpetrator in p peril of oC legal and judicial extra-judicial punishment The case of the little boy from Dover Dovel Del Is in J It point His father ather Is a physician In fair all circumstances circumstances- r I not rich by any means a as' as riches are measured In III the 1 East The child was tol taken en two weeks s ago and the auf authorities au au- au- au I f have e been se searching for or him ever since And Andr r the people who stole him lm have e communicated with the father offering to surrender tho tIm child chilli for or a vcr very small mOlle money consideration lIe He may mayor or may not be found Meantime there is Js a horror of oC suffering in tho the family r j beside beside- which sudden death would would- bo be vastly dc desirable S The crime is not frequent and one marvels that it itS has been followed a at all There was vas the he case caso o of Charley S Ross floss the child of Philadelphia parents who was taken If It Charley Ross has S more than a quarter century ago ever cr been found the fact act is Js by no means well His father was In good circumstances anti and spent a fortune fortune all all ho he had hall and anti much that was placed In his hands for the tIc purpose purpose purpose-In In trying to recover reco the thc boy What was thc the fate ate of oC Charley Charle Ross no one knows The Tue story has been told in lii a dozen different wn ways s The most proba probable le solution n of oC the puzzle Is that he was killed when r. r his abductors s found they could not secure the thc reward with aU any safety to themselves In Chicago about twenty years cars ago aso a little girl Irl named Annie Redmond Hedmond was stolen by a woman who with a man partner conducted a sort of tinker shop In a n wagon wagonS and travelled all over the middle West Vest It does not seem that the woman had hall any plan when she took the child but ut once the little one was in her possession she and her man partner demanded a reward for the theS return of the child Winter coming on on tho the pair took tool a ar S r r- r 0 shabby house house house Yn 11 n rt southern suburb u urb of or Chicago C and there kept kepl the girl They cut away avay her long Jong yellow hair anti and amI dressed her In pantaloons the better to provide a dis dis- guise ulse One day some woman neighbor of oC the tinkers told an agent of oC the humane society that the people n next door were cruel crue to their little bo boy keeping him In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cellar most of the time and frequently whipping him The rescue of the thc child chilli was purely an accident John ne Redmond mond father o of the girl was a n prosperous blacksmith in South State Stale street He bankrupted himself himself him him- self seU In searching for the child and the departure from his u usual ual industrious ha habit lt made a drunkard o of him lIe Ho was In the last stages of or ruin when the thc child was waa re restored restored re- re stored to him and In a short time lost his reason entirely Ills wife more blessed with fortitude as fortitude as Is the way of women women bore bore her loss los and the Joy of or recovering her herS S child with better equanimity But their lives lI were ruined ruh their fortune was wasted and Redmond either died in ina ina ina a madho madhouse e or he is iJ still an inmate of oC the asylum at atI S S I Kankakee The stealers of the of-the the girl were sent sento o 0 o prison and never pol got a p penny nn It meanS so much much of or oC suf suffering for the moth mother l' l and for i tho the father It means such a a for i the tho thieves thle them them- selves el es And Ald It can in no case cause caus a realization In mono money S comm commensurate with the tho risk and the penalties Involved Even I If the father is a rich man as in the case caso of oC Mr Cudahy of oC Omaha whose son Is h said to have been stolen by Pat Pal Cro Crowe Croe e the chance chanco Is vastly against the c culprit profiting b by his d deed ed In that thal case the child was happily recovered S In mon many states It In Is ma made e a capital offense to l kidnap kidnap kid kid- ld- ld nap a child and demand denand a r reward wald Surely if it there be he an offense against the institutions of or the age aso that might rightfully be he punished with death It is h this |