Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-04-29
The Lost Child Found.


missing, and though advertised for in the
newspapers, and the police set to work,
there was no tidings of the lost child, to
the great distress of the parents and SYM
pathy of their neighbors. The child was
found last week, alive and well, the par
ticulars of which are given in the Boston
Journal of April 21, as follows:
Last Wednesday evening young man
named james Doherty, assistant steward
ON board the steamer William Kennedy,
called at the residence of Mr.. Burns,
when some conversation occurred rela-
tive to Nellie, during which Mr.. Burns
asked Doherty not to lead him astray, as
he had often been done, but if he tho't
he was right he should be glad to hear
what he had to say. In low tone of
voice, as if speaking to himself, Doherty
uttered the words finger in her mouth |
when asleep" and hesitating for mo-
ment, he told Mr.. Burns he thought he |
knew something of his child being at
a house in Institute place, where he
sometimes called when in the city, and !
spoke of its wearing rubber slippers. The
matter of the finger in her mouth and
the rubber slippers led Mr.. Burns to be-
lieve that the child must be his lost
Nellie, but it being late and quite dark,
he preferred waiting till daylight before
visiting locality in section of the city
Of which he knew nothing Of the char
acter of the inhabitants. Before leaving
Doherty stated that Mrs. Bowman kept
the house where he had seen the child
with Mrs. Lizzie Chase and heard her
call it Nellie. His attention was first
called to the fact of the child being lost
by reading printed notice about it,
which was shown to him by his brother
six or seven days since. After some fur
ther conversation Doherty left the house.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Burns called
at the Chiefs office, and relating the fore
going facts substantially, asked Deputy
Chief Quinn to let him have an officer
to visit Institute place, and Officer Hough-
ton of the Second Police was according
10 detailed by Capt. Vinal for that duty.
Previously, however, the officer and Mr..
Burns visited the steamers William Law
renee and William Kennedy in search
of Doherty, whom they finally found,
and he accompanied them to Institute
place.
As Mr.. Burns and his companions
turned into the place, where several chill
dren were at play, Officer Houghton and
Mr.. Burns at the same moment almost,
discovered Nellie, when Mr.. Burns rush
ed for and seized her in his arms, at the
same time showing her photograph of
himself, and asking her who that was.
She promptly replied Papa" He next
entered the house with the officer, and
going up stairs saw Mrs. Chase and ask
ed her if she claimed the child, how she
came by it, &c. Mrs. Chase did not
make any direct reply, but said her hus-
band was at sea, and asked if she had
got to be taken away. Something was
said about her confessing to having ta-
ken the child and telling the whole story,
to which she made no response, but pro-
duced the hood and cloak worn when
she was first missed. Mrs. Chase was
ordered by Officer Houghton to put on
her shawl, as he wanted her to go with
him to the Second Police Station, and as
the party left the house they heard a
man named Patrick Murray exclaim
Nellie or something like it. He
was asked what made him call her that
, name, and replied that every one called
f her Nellie. His manner induced the
t officer to take him to the Station, but he
, was soon after released from custody.
The news of the finding of the child
a spread rapidly through Court square and
: the immediate vicinity, and but few
q minutes elapsed before crowd of seve
: raj hundred persons, all anxious to sea
the lost one, assembled in front of the
: Station. Nellie looked bright and hap
D py, and stroking her fathers face, re
f peatedly exclaimed, Papa Papa
n Mr.. Burns being desirous to reach his
!. home at the earliest moment, carriagt
d was procured, and with Nellie, accom-
j. panied by Officer Houghton and Lieut.
r Twombly, he left the station. As they
/. left, Mr.. Twombly lifted the little girl 81
a that all could see her, and the clappinf
! of hands and three cheers for the los
r child signifed the joy of the crowd.
/. On the arrival of Mr.. Burns will
,. Nellie at his house on Shawmut street
,fI men, women and children residing in tn
/. neighborhood flocked to his residence b,
# hundreds, and soon the street was fairly
d filled with gratiied crowd.
; The mother of Nellie was up stair