[Indexed as: (“Angelina” case), “Tiny Tot Aided By Society – Mother Located for Child Who Had Been Kidnaped by Father,” San Jose Mercury Herald (Ca.), Dec. 30, 1919
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 – It is five years since little Angelina was kidnapped by her father and carried off to Italy, leaving the mother in this country. When she was met at the dock in New York by a Traveler’s Aid worker a few days ago, she was scarcely able to speak a word of English. Fortunately the worker could understand Italian and as Angelina was more than willing to talk it was not difficult to get her story.
““I don’t remember my mother at all because I was such a little girl when my father took me away. I am sure she is here in America and I’ve got her address right with me,” and she displayed an old thumb marked letter which bore the post-mark of a small New England town.
Did Not Run Away.
“Oh, no, I didn’t run away from my father. He got awful sick and died and after his funeral I searched through the old box of papers that he always kept locked up and found who my mother really was. I had always wondered and wondered. But my father would never tell me.”
The little Italian girl was induced to go to the Traveler’s Aid headquarters at 485 Lexington avenue and she lived at their home until her mother arrived with sufficient documentary evidence to prove beyond a shadow of doubt their relationship and her fitness to have the custody of the child. Angelina did not know her mother, but after a day spent in visiting with her she responded to the filial love displayed by the mother and left with her for their little home in New England.