Mrs. Susan E. Martineau's Rescue of Edwin Curtis's Son from Kidnapping

Mrs. Susan E. Martineau, living in Logan, Utah, observed a squaw dragging an unwilling white child towards the willows of the Logan River. Suspicious, she waited behind a fence for the squaw to pass, at which point two men appeared. Mrs. Martineau alerted the men, who confronted the squaw and rescued the child, who was identified as the two- or three-year-old son of Edwin Curtis of Logan. This incident was noted as a direct intervention of the providence of God to prevent the kidnapping of a white child by Indians, a fate that had befallen other children in the region.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 53, No. 3, 19 January 1891, p. 46):

Mrs. Susan E. Martineau, of Logan, recently observed a squaw dragging an unwilling white child towards the willows of the Logan river. Her suspicions were aroused, and she waited behind a fence for the squaw to pass, when two men appeared. Mrs. Martineau called their attention to the matter, and they confronted the squaw and rescued the child, who proved to be the two or three-year-old son of Edwin Curtis, of Logan. It is thought that the child was being kidnapped, a fate which has befallen other children in this region.