Hears From Daughter Who Was Kidnapped 12 Years Ago

1910

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2. — A letter in the mail of Francis E. Fairman, a notary, with offices in the Frick building, deeply interested him, but when he reached the bottom of the first page he leaped from his chair and shouted "My daughter. Thank heaven I have heard from her at last — the first time in twelve years since she was kidnapped from me."

In a few days the kidnapped girl, Edith May Fairman, aged 19, now a trained nurse in Norwalk, Conn., will come here to live with her father and brother.

When Fairman recovered his composure he said:

"Twelve years ago I was a prosperous business man in Brooklyn, N. Y. One day I went home from my office to find my wife had disappeared. She was tired of me, she said in a letter several months later. A month after she left I went to St. Louis, where I stayed six months as an engineer in the employ of the United States army. Then I returned to Brooklyn.

"One evening several weeks afterward I returned home from my office to find that my daughter had disappeared. Several months later a letter, dated at a town in Nova Scotia, demanded $10,000 for her return home. I didn't have that amount of money, so I went to Nova Scotia to see if I could find my daughter. I made five trips before I found her.

"Trains run only once a week from the little town where I recovered my daughter and while we waited at a hotel I allowed her to attend school. The first day she went to school she didn't return to me, and I haven't seen her since."

—New Castle News, New Castle, PA, Nov. 2, 1910, p. 6.