The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-25
A Lost Child Found AFTER a Lapse of
Seven Years.
From The sandusky (ohiOl Register.

From the sAndusky (ohio) Register. Oct 80.
A circumstance has come to light in our
midst within q few days, which for TO-
nance is scarcely excelled by the dreami-
est imagination of the brain, and which
form the web of an enchanting tale
Of fiction.
In the year 1856 there lived at No 81
Baxter street, in the city of New York, q
family by the name of Murillo. The par
ents were of Italian origin, and the father
during years Of prosperity had acquired a
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 We have mem
toned, had been rendered more cheerful
and attractive by the birth of o daughter.
The mother was in feeble health, and fol-
lowing the custom too often adhered by
those in the high circle Of society, the
parents put their young babe into the
care and keeping of a muse, who lived
not many blocks from their palatial resi-
ence.
Three yeays 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. II wal with great
reluctance 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, accustomed to constant care
and caress of its nurse, and knowing its
parents only as strangers to il, had learned
TO love only its keeper. This mutual at
tachment was often a source of great an
noysnce to the parents, for frequently
would the nurse succeed in getting the
child home and retaining it for days at q
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 AM four years
passed, when in the year 1858 the child
was missing from home, and was not to be
found at the nurses. The city was search
ed from one end of its long streets to the
other, but to no avail. Every means that
human mind could invent was resorted to
by the father to trace outthe lost child, but
to no purpose. Nearly seven years thus
passed, and then no trace of the 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 these long years gradually
passed away. The father had traversed
the country over in search of the
lost one, and had lost all expecta
ton OF ever beholding his child
again. But the sadness that had brooded
over that household for six and one hal
long years was to be dispelled, and rejoic
ing was soon to supersede it. The nurse
at last conscience -stricken, confessed to the
father that she had stolen the child, anC
had Immediately sent it off with q number
of homeless children that were being takeI
west in search of homes among strangers
The father Immediately examined the OLD
records of the Association. and after SOM
days found recorded that the child haC
been taken TO Bellevue, in this state, snC
had been adopted by q family there by tn,
name of Marshall Coming immediasel,
to Bellevue lie visited the above nameI
longer there. but was somewhere il
the county. Julia, the name of tn
child, had retained herEfuIl name, and b,
the striking resemblance she bore TO he
father, he was able to trace her further
She had only remained three years OF tn,
seven Of her absence with the family il
Bellevue. Her adopted parents had failet
to give her that instruction necessary in
correct life, and had been at times crue
and severe, and as a result the child hat
contracted a habit Of stealing. After ieav
ing Bellevue she had resided in severs
families in this country until last August
when she stole q silk dress and a shaw
while the family Of Capt. D. W. Lindsey
of Perkins, in which she then resided
were absent
Capt. Lindsey had sought to correct he
life, but in vain, and finally entered CON
plant before Judge Colver, and after q thor
ough investigation, she was sentencedto tn
Reform School for girls. The examination
showed that she had acquired the habit o
stealing, and had before been detected i
it. She was then given into the care of Nj
and Mrs. Starr, superintendent of tn
County Infrmary, prior to being transfer
ed to the Reform School. They 500
became interested in her. He
winning ways, her sprightliness an
wit, rendered her very a~ttractiv
and she soon revealed to them tina
her waywardness was due more to misfor
tune and cruel training than to a wickel
spirit. They intended to retain her there
fore with them in the hope of saving hel
when on last Friday her father made hi
appearance at the Home, and beheld 10
the first time in seven years his lost child
Obtaining a writ of hdbeds corpus he 500
took her from the hands of the Law, an
fastened on his way to his home in NeV
York. Surely q desolaIe home has bee
made Joyous, and a mothers broken heal
made whole again.