Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-02
Romance in Real Life.
'sT CHILD FOUND AFTER A LAPsE L OF SEW
lN YEARS


| tFrom the sandusky, Ohio. Register.li
A circumstance has come 10 light in
our midst within few days, which fol
romance is scarcely excelled by the
dreamiest imaginations of the brain, and
which form the web of an enchaatine
tale of fiction.
In the year 1856 there lived at No. 81
Baxter street, in the city of New York
family by the name of Murillo. The
parents were of Italian origin, and the
father during years of prosperity had ac-
quired handsome competence in the
silk trade. Fortune had smiled upon
them in other ways than the bestowal OF
riches, and their home during the year
mentioned, had been rendered more
cheerful aud attractive by the birth of
a daughter. The mother was in feeble
health, and following the custom too of
ten adhered to by those in the high cir
cles of society, the parents put their
young babe in the care and keeping Of a
nurse, who lived not many blocks from
their palatial residence. Three years
thus passed in the life of their child,
when the time came for the parents to
shelter and rear it henceforth under
their own roof. 1t was with great re-
luctance that the nurse could part with
it. During the many months she had
formed an attachment for it quite as
strong as that implanted by nature in
the parent. And the child, accu stoned
to the constant care and caress of its
nurse, and knowing its parents only as
strangers to it, had learned to love only
its keeper. This mutual attachmentwas
often a source of great annoyance to the
parents, for frequently would the nurse
succeed in getting the child home and
retaining it for days at a time, and often
did the little one steal away from its
mother, and run to the nurses house, the
location of which it had learned. In this
manner four years passed, when in the
year 1868 the child was missing from
home, and was not to be found at the
nurses. The city was searched from one
of its long streets to the other, but to no
avail. Every means that human mind
could invent was resorted toby the faith
er to trace out the lost child, but to no
purpose. Nearly seven years passed,
and then no trace of the lost child could
be found. A spirit of melancholy had
taken the place of JOY in the life of the
mother, and the cheering inspiration Of
hope had in those long years gradually
passed away. The father had traversed
the country over in search of the lost
one, and had lost all expectations of ever
beholding his child again. But the sad
ness that had brooded over that house
held for six and one-aalf long years Was
to be dispelled, and rejoicing was soon to
supersede it. The nurse, at last, con-
science stricken, confessed to the father
that she had stolen the child, and had
Immediately sent it off with number of
homeless children that were being taken
west in search of homes among strangers.
The father Immediately examined the
old records of the Association, and af-
ter some days found recorded that the
child had been taken to Bellevue in this
State, and had been adopted by family
there by the name of Marshall. Coming
Immediately to Bellevue he visited the
above named family, and found that the
child was no longer there, but somewhere
in this county. Julia, tire name of the
child, had retained her full name, and by
the striking resemb ance she bore to her
father, he was able to trace her further.
She had only remained three years of
the seven Of her absence with the ia nily
in Bellevue. Her adopted parents had
failed to give her that instruction neces-
sary to correct life, and had cen at
times cruel and severe, and as result
the child had contracted habit of steal |
ing. After leaving Bellevue she had re-
slded in several families in this county,
until last August, when she stole silk |
lress and shawl while the family of |
Capt. d. w. Lindsey Of Perkins, in
which she then resided, were absent
Capt. Lindsey had sought to correct her
ife, but in vain, and had finally entered
, complaint before Judge Colver. and
lfter a thorough examination she was
to the Ohio Reform School for
yirls. The examination showed that he
lad acquired the habit of stealing, and
before been detected in it. She was then
,iven into the care of Mr.. and Mrs. Starr
of the county infrmary,
,rior to being transferred to the Reform
chool. They soon became interested in
Ter. Her winning ways, her sprightli-
less and wit, rendered her attractive,
md she soon revealed to them that her
was due more tn risfortupaj