The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-10-12
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The lbiqusuiOus Boy.

The blowing originated in the ST. Louis Re
publican. and the first ,rt of the story has prov
ed food for wonder. Tie second part is quite a
entertaining
ain the neighborhood of O'Fallon street live
very poor but homes. and respected family, con
sisting of husband and wife and three children
The oldest of the children is boy of ten year
of age The boy is very sckly, has scarcely
seen a well day since his birth, and, it is said
is empowered with ubiquity. In other words h,
possesses marvellous faculty of appearing at one
or more places at the same time:
ave give this statement we hear it, and
only for what it is worth. 1t is alleged that the
boy has been seen at intervals during two days
at Paducah KY, and at the same time was help
less on a sick bed in this city; that he has been
seen bathing in the Mississippi river when his
mother fondly leaning above him and ex-
pecting him to expire every moment; that he
was seen at the residence of cousin i'll Sanga-
mon county, ILL.,, when he was incapable OF leav-
ing his couch.
"What is stranger still we are told that this
ubiquity, as it must be called, is voluntary on
the part of the boy; that at times when he is
thus ubiquitous he is seized with violent spasms
to be afraid OF all who approach him. He is
perfectly conscious of all that is transpiring,
and relates conversations and describes all that
he secs away from where his body really is In
truth he appears to be afraid of his own being
and from each succeeding spasm occasioned by
this extraordinary phenomenon, he awakes more
feebly and is rapidly sinking into the grave
Strange and unreal as this must appear to all
intelligent readers, there is something very mys-
terious connected with this affair"
In a subsequent article the Repu6ltcdn gives
these additional particulars:
yesterday we received visit from Mr.. En-
low, of Sahgamon county, Illinois. who confirms
some of the startling statements which we have
already made. He SAYS the boy Whose name we
must Withhold out of respect to the earnest wishes
of his parents) was seen at his house several
times during three days in April last, at which
time his parents assert soleInnly that he was at
home in this city and monentarily expected to
die In one instance he was seen walking in the
road near the house. A little girl, who knew
him, thinking he had suddenly come on a visit,
ran out to meet him, but returned in few min
utes saying that he had disappeared and that
she had seen ghost.
Mr.. Enlow, uncle to the youth, further in
forms us that on last Sunday evening, while sit
ting in chamber conversing with the parents
the boy entered the room as if in perfect health
and walked to the table in the presence OF them
all. The mother almost tainted, and rushing
into the next room found her boy in a spssm.--
He is daily wasting away and cannot long sur"
vive. f.s .4 c-1t..
Inc writer mas hlu an interview WIN the
family, and has seen the boy, together with a
number of gentlemen in this city, who will
vouch these statements
"A few facts concerning his history may be of
interest to supersttious persons and those fond
of Ihc wont!arf~' U'g Iaother stat il04
learned to walk with difficulty, and has aiw IS
been strangely distracted in manner aid ye II
all other respects he is not unlike any other
child. Two years ago he was drowned in pond
while playing with other children, was brought
out of the water and restored to life after having
been dead eight minutes In his birth there is
nothing mysterious. He is not the seventh
son Of seventh son. nor anything of the sort
lie is simply flesh and blood"