Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — BABY CLARK IS FOUND. [ARTICLE]

BABY CLARK IS FOUND.

Child Abducted from New York la Re- ’ tiltorad to Parente. .. r . The search for little Marion Clark, who was kidnaped in New York on Sunday, May 21, and returned to her parents Thursday night, revealed the existence of an organized body whose purpose is to steal the children of wealthy people and hold them for rapsoms. The child was found at the farm house of Richard Oakley, in the heart of the Ramapo mountains, near Sloatsburg, Rockland County, N. Y. One of the abductors was arrested when the baby was found. She calls herself Jentiie Wilson. A man who said he was James J. Wilson, her husband, was with her when she was found, and was also arrested. “Jennie Wilson” formerly taught school at St. John’s, the little postoffice in the Ramapo mountains, near which she was residing with Marion when arrested. The farm house of Frank Oakley, in which Marion Clark had been concealed, is about a mile from the railway station of Sloatsburg, in Rockland County. St. John’s is a settlement of a few scattered houses and contains a church and a school. The matron of the school is Mrs. Ada B. Carey, who is also postmistress of St. John’s. The credit for the discovery of the child is due to Mrs. Carey, who recognized Marion from newspaper pictures. Marion was taken to St. John’s by Jennie Wilson. When she called for letters at the postoffice Mrs. Carey recognized her as Carrie McNally, daughter of a newspaper editor in Goshen, N. Y. Mrs. Carey swore out a warrant for the arrest of the suspected woman before Squire Isaac Herbert of West Haverstraw. It was served on the abductress by Deputy Sheriff Charleston of St. John’s. The woman was accompanied by Wilson at the time. She broke down and wept. Then she led the deputy to where Marion lay asleep in the farm house. Telegrams had been sent to New York, and as fast as it was possible for him to travel Mr. Clark hurried to West Haverstraw. Soon after identifying the baby the father left the village with the little girl in his arms. A big crowd greeted the party with the recovered child on its arrival In New York. At the Clark residence a great crowd, cheering and weeping, awaited and heralded the father and his child. Mrs. Clark swooned when she saw from a window the returning searchers.