Mrs. Lewis E. Carter, 2508 Isabella St.; Police, frantic parents, hunt "kidnapped" baby

Four year old Louise Carter was playing in front of her home at 2508 Isabella street, when an automobile when an automobile dashed up to the home and two matronly ladies alighted. After purchasing a dozen eggs from Louise's mother, MRs. Lewis E. Carter, they prepared to drive away. But Louise was enjoying to a full extent the beautiful dark green car with its blue wheels and she was in no hurry to relinquish her seat. When the ladies asked Louise if she cared to ride she readily assented. "But you'll have to ask your mother first," one of the ladies said. Now, Louise was only 4 years old, but she was shrewd enough to realize that perhaps her mother might oppose the plan, so she walked through the front door and out the back. "It's awright," she cried gleefully. "Mamma says I can go." Then she climbed into the luxurious cushions of the rear seat, pointed theindex finger of her right hand in a northerly direction and said, "Let's go." The car spurted forward and whizzed northward with Louise's curls blowing high in the wind. In the same house little Thelma Barton, Louise's playmate, watched Louise drive proudly away and she rushed up stairs to Mrs. Carter. "They took Louise away," she cried. The mother looked out of the window just in time to see the car disappear down the road. Frantically she called the neighbors and then the police. The Evanston police squad arrived first and set out in a despearate attempt to overtake the kidnapers. Their chase was futile and a net was hastily thrown around the limits of Wilmette and Evanston to prevent the kidnappers from taking the little girl out of the village. For two hours police and parents searched everywhere but could find no terace of the kidnappers' car. As they wre about to give up and resign themselves to fate, the big car whizzed back to the Carter home and Louise stepped out. She held numerous lolly-pops, chocolates, peppermint sticks and other brands of candy in her chubby hands and had a large red ribbon tied to her black curls. "We've just been miles an' miles an' miles," she said. When the ladies learned of the excitement the trip had created they apologized and explained that they had taken the little girl on a shopping trip to Wilmette with them under the impression that Louise had obtained her mother's consent. Then they promised to return some time and take Louise out for another ride.