DIVORCED PARENTS' DISPUTE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8834, 10 June 1907, Page 4

DIVORCED PARENTS' DISPUTE.

I A long dramatic struggle between divorcod parents for the possession I of a child passionately loved by both, ' ended last Thursday, stated a Berlin ! telegram of March 24th, in the kid- [ napping from Grosflottbeck, near I Hamburg, of Eddie Kricger, a handI some, blue-eyed American boy of i twelve. As lie was playing in a I garden the boy was seized by a pair of masked men, gagged, and carried off, while the maddened mother, who Ehad recovered her child only the day before, viewing the scene from a window, shrieked in vain for help. The German police are completely bafflod as to the identity or wherc- > abouts of the abductors, and have • asked the police of every capital and every port in Europe to assist in unravelling the mystery. There are indications that the kidnappers started for Holland. The father of the child is a Ger-man-American physician, Dr. George Krieger, formerly resident in Chicago, where he married the daughter of a wealthy specialist, named Bart. From her he was divorced in 1904, and she was given custody of the child, the father being granted permission to see him at stated intervals. On the last of these occasins Dr. Krieger fled from Chicago with the son. He left clues that they had gone to Canada, but in reality they came £o Germany, Where the doctor resumed the practice of his profession at Neustadt. He placed the son in a private school at Hanover, under the guardianship of a local railway official named Angres. ' The mother had meantime remarried, becoming the wife of a Dr. Macdonald. Detectives having ascertained the real whereabouts of her child, Mrs Macdonald arrived in Germany on March 13th for the pur- ] pose of recovering possession of him. I Finding that the order of the Amerij can divorce judge was invalid in this f country, she proceeded to fulfil the | requirements of German law, which she succeeded in doing in the face of J tenacious opposition on the part of j the Hanover guardian, who resorted j even to hiding the boy. Angres i finally consented to give up the \ child, and formally transferred him /to the mother's possession at the Hotel Bristol, Hanover, last Wednesday. On Thursday she lost him as described above. "When Marjorie Friel invited the police to Marshall's iiome they made a remarkable haul. They seized no fewer than 2000 letters, answering Marshall's advertisement, "wanted, I a wife, wealthy, refined, elderly I gentleman, alone, generous; will 'be a devoted husband." Among I these love missives were several from women asserting that they had fortunes of £2OOO, who.were pining for a home and children. One wrote, "May this be your Valentine, dear, ducky darling.'' Another said she had a husband, but she was tired of him, and wanted a new one, with money enough to divorce the old. A widow confessed to being fair, fat, and forty, but said she was lonely. One girl, in her teens, admitted that she was not j beautiful, but she was virtuous, and '' beauty was only skin deep any- ' way." Farmers' daughters by the hundred wrote that they were sick of country life, servant girls pleaded that they were weary of the kitchen, school teaachers declared that they wore tired of teaching tho young idea how to shoot. Marshall had classified all these offers, those with dowries at tho top, those with natural goodness at tho bottom. Mr W. Robinson, grocer, Mornington, N. Z., not only sells Chamboriain's Cough Remedy but uses it. Ho says : —' I have been troubled sevoral times with influenza, and tho inly cough modicino that lias over lone mo any good was Chamberlain's 3ough Remedy. Innumerable timos [ Ivave recommended it to my cus;omers and they were more thanJ jleased with the result. I havo cus- J omers that always keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in j heir house, and won't use anything lse for their childrou. For sale by \H. Brodin, Marton; and W. B. !lark, Bulls. We offer you 40 dozon Ladies' 'lannolotto Ohomisos, Nightdrossos, lombiuations and Knickers at loss mn price of materials at McElowney's Stores; Marton, Htmtea» ille and Taihape. f Judging by tho friendly remarks <> hear, Bmirnville Cocoa has come ■ stay. Its delicious flavour and ■ jliglitfnl aroma havo secured for it f largo demand. Wholesale—Gael-j irv. Parish Street. Wollhitrtion." I