The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-07-28
Extraordinary Adventure.

One OF the most extraordinary adyen'
! lures ofa cEil1 of which we ever heard. oc
Cured in this vicinity last week. On thurs
day the l0th inst. n son of John Keenan,, o.
this place, aged only three and a hdif gears
! disappeared from his home, and no tiiings
could be Obtained ct him by his parents,
On The following day bills were circulated,
soliciting information respecting him. Il
was at length acerlained that child answer.
ing to this description had been seen in an
easteriy direction from the village, and an
active search was Immediately instituted for
the missing boy. It appears that he was
seen By several persons, but la one instance
only unler circumstances than had excited
suspicion that he was lost, and in this instance
the person neglected to take charge of him
Immediately, and when followed, he had dis
appeared in the woods and could not be
found. The course of the child was follow
ed III part by the information Of those who
had seen him, bH. mainly, we understand,
by his foot prints in pIoughed fields and mud
Iy places. He was at Iehg.h found on sat
urlay evening, athalf past five O clock, near
.hc bounlry line between Scckonk and Re-
hobo;h tire ana a half miles in a straiYhiiie
rom his home; and Efty .toar aud a hait
hours after his disappearance, .JJty nine al
ter h6 ale his breakfast on the previous
Thursday morning. lie LEFT home bare.
too,cd AMI very thinly clad, having Lo;hing
on but thin calico dress, and an apron,
and these were wet wien he was found
through pIoughed fields and woods, and n.
cross ditches and swamps. So fu as is
known or believed, he had no: ca.en mouth
full Of food since the previous Thursday.
Two nights the little fellow must have sleot
in the open air, on the cold, damp ground,
and they were cod nights, too, there being
Il frost on each, if our memory is correct.
His feet were badly lacera;ed by stones,
briers, DC, and much swollen, but he ap.
peared otherwise in go ID condition, and is
doing well, His greatest anxiety, on being
found, was to be taken to lis mother. for
whom be said he had been looking When
asked if he did not sleep the previous night,
he said he did.
The latter part of the strange adventure Of
this child was in an extensive swami il
whice people have been lost, and where,
some forty years ago = womon unable to
find her way out pcrishcd; aud her body was
not found for line days afterwards. In
this swamp there is stream five or six feet
wide, and cf considerable depth, and mud
in its bed and on its banks is so deep and
soft that it is difficult to cross it. But this
chHa did cross H--how, every one who has
seen it is puzzled 10 conjecture. From the
appearance Of his tracks in the swamp, It is
supposed that he wandered about therein
Seveaal miles lie was found ON the mar
Gin of the swamp, but was supposed to be
in it, and between one and two hundred
men were engaged on Saturday, in search
for him.
We question mhethsr there is another in,
stance on record on which Child OF 50 ten
der years survived so mach fatigue, prya.
ton and exposure. Ii this little Keenan,
lives and does not make tough spccimau
OF a man. his age 'oele the promise Of his
spring. ."-Pawtucket R. ~ Gazette.