Attempted Kidnapping

Early in the morning of October 10, 1901, on Long Street, in the home of Judge Lee Young, an aunt, sleeping in Alden Young’s room, woke to see a man carrying the five-year-old boy out the door wrapped in a blanket. She following screaming, overtaking him at the gate. “Her cries aroused others and the man finally let go of his burden and ran to his buggy.” Erath Appeal