The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-12
THE S0MNAMBULIST BOY.
rowe M'ITBRs's THREE WEEKS OF
REMARKdBLB ADVENTURES,

The Parents Fortnight Of suspense-sceur-
Ing the Hudson River Towns-Lured by
Pictures oi Life the Ocean wave-The
Happy Return TO his Cold Spring Home.
As stated in 1nB SUN on Monday last The Cold
Spring somnambust has been found. A SUI reporter
paid visit TO his home In Cold Spring yesterday,
arriving at the door OF the somnambulists fathers
house. small building rudely constructed but yet
| comfortable. II IL situated on q hillside. about
| quarter OF n mile from the Hudson River Railroad.
The reporter was met by pl easant though weary
| looking woman, brifht-eyed little girl plainly
though neatly dressed, and lad who subsequently
proved to he the somnanbulist The dialogue which
followed the reporters arrival runs as follows:
Sun Reporter-Does Master Henry kcIvers re-
The Lid (p'easantlv)-Yes, sir; am he.
Mrs. heiyers (eyeiug reporter with evident
ahxiety)-Nlat do you wantf
Reporer-Tm reporter, come TO get the parcu-
lars Of your sons recent mysterious disappearance
The Lad-oh yes sir win tell all know
| about IL,
| Mrs. MeIvers TO her son)-see here drawing the
another man come TO entice you away from your
motherf You shan't We anything to say TO him.
Chen turning TO the rel orter) We have told 1t to
| one news man, AVID he abused us he did not print
1t as it was, and I'm erlid these things will inJure
home, thank Cod, and lie viii remain here.
| Reportor-Mrs. McIvers, you may rest assured
boy or wound YOUR gs YonT st storm u,e T p
| NNN's
MIR MTs msiysrs-wen, guess will tell yCui you
| must excuse me, Tor since my boy left home have
| Tho reporter was ushcred into tidy little room.
and tNere be listened TO TIE following story OF Mrs.
| at II O'Clock A. NJ. on Eister Sunday lie Iwent out
| TO get little rabbit stun, and While there he
.SOr distance When Se met Freneh nsa boy named
Charles du Crew, about Is years old, who had been
ing This boy advised Henry to go on the water,
saying II Was gentleman's life and would be
very easy and very inucn enjoyed by him." Henry
not give him rcrmissiOn" The French i'i, roy tEea
gave % so, ls Lena nae =, % Of yacht Madeline belong
said It was then at Nyack. Some time since, l
promised Henry that we would take a walk no the
this time his head troubling him, and be started
and walked ca, supposng he was going to New.
way rnd walked 10 PeeSsi fs1 Tere 'pS Se T5SSS oS@S
some one to take him across the river to Nyack 20
father assisted by mrseli aud few neirhborr, be-
gan 70 search for him and continued the search for
miles up, and down the Hudson River Railroad for
two weeks. Daring all that time my husband did
nothing else. lie inquired Of the French boy, but
Se s%s he s.s% SS SSo,Ss aSSg him hoosh my
| two weeks, we received this letter from Henry:
Dear Father and Mother; now have the opportunity
Ven %y.. very tSyS sorry M To- aHa %ssS sGf
me- lam oonS yS S w os' eoRe yog WI iorgss
w.iterman since Easter sunday ! have been uDeasy
shall want oos at co ssrins aay more, but snsi
iSs s ,s tS SS5 ncs H9@S
alone ;S nna n,,n, ds.,Iis but that notaIng onen
comes into nv head. 60 20 away cry. Mother
ha % SSs 70, ss ss1 S ~.
onsy asa st to .1 yoa os a.. s M
m oomsI W., a ,ry an, and make y9g happy. s IN my
EIth p,e; VII come and soc you Il you viii reesiye
PSi an Len end nss % ~ s' Hs srs nSS e :y TsSs %
sa9T ts.rs rop don't Know how frel Afssr yOs May
Marina take care Of my rabbits. From your mos,
Thi. letter was plainly written Will lead pencil
without any date, his whereabouts was yet ~.
'uoNn. Two days later the parents received another
letter as iolows;
iHoBoKEs Aprn sth i-7o.
pran rATnER MoTHFni A. am at llberty write
nlil rnd yo- ~ - am lhe same am IN good
iuati21 and u behave my'eit can keep y all sum.
m &c you needn't come alter me I an 40 ng rrsl.
From your -ioSiiOHa'' and 'OvPT ;2n SIt nc,vrps
Mrs McIvers continued her story as follows:
A soon as We received the last Letter We felt
greatly r,leyed and he ap cared to be happy we
Decided TO let him rem in for awhile. Last Friday
night the French hoy, tharlesdu Crew, who decoyed
nv poor Toy away, had the mpuGeuce to call and
tell me llai lle was going 10 Join Henry on the same
edged THAI he knew Henry was going when he went,
though he denied knowing, wnen asked, the day
Henry lett lie gave that be was afr aid
| to tell | said 10 him. n such rascal as you are
going TO be that boat, my boy shall not stay 20
last Saturday my husband and myself went TO Hobo
ken for our bog.
| The steward OF the yacht remarked TO me that he
| did not think the boy was just right that he did
many queer things. lie said Henry threw q
bucket INTO tde river, and then jumped In a ter II,
and was with difficulty rescued from waery grave.
lie said he was afraid II tie boy stayed there he
would be drowned. On Saturday my husband and
boy went to staten Island, and late Sunday night
We returned home. His sisters in bed when
| arrived, but they Immediately got up and seemed
Overjoy ed al the return OF their lost brother.
The reporter then turned TO Master Henry and
gathered the following story:
walked ON little way that afternoon and then
went into barn and slept Ia the Lay until the
morning. My head fell bad all the tine. l felt cou-
fused. felt as II something pushing me along
from behind all the time. When arrived at Nyack
found the yacht moored there, and went on board
and told Dol. Rose who was, and the Colonel gave
me a situation a. waiter, to try me. Then the
Colonel said he " ould write to my home n he liked
me, and he cid when at HoDoken. The
Colonel was very kind hearted man, aud I used to
was going to buy me a new one,
One night about IL o'clock about q week before
| 1 came home, / got frightened and got out Of
my berth and went on deck. l thought / heard
the growl OF dog, but when 1 arrived deck l
was more frightened AMI went back to my berth,
again felt as II something was pushing me all tie
| time. i was glad when mother came for, me though
| was very fobd of Col. Rose, he 30 kind ne,
and want you to put II In the paper that he was
| good TO me- and could have come home ut any
| time if L wanted to.
Forcing the Perauisite