The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
THE PRATTLER's FATAL PLAY.

LITTLE JosEY SULLIVAN FoUND-A MOTHERS
JOY AND A MOTHERS ANGUIsH-AN END OF
THE THEORY OF KIDNAPPING.
The theory of the kidnapping of little
Josey Sullivan, so naturally taken up on
account of the stealing of Charley Ross, has
been abandoned, as appears from the fol-
lowing from the New York Sun: 'I've
seen Josey,7 said Mr.. Sullivan's clerk to
Mrs. Sullivan about o'clock yesterday AZ
ternoon. you've seen him? BOW is he?
Is he all right" the mother inquired in
tones more joyous than she had been able
to command since her darling disappeared
three weeks ago. "He's all right" the clerk
replied, but in replying he turned his
head away and quit the room before
looked so sober. Mrs. Sullivan forgot her
household avoca.ions, and instead called
her younger children to her. Brother
JOsey's found; he'll soon be home" she
said so blithesomeiy that the children pratt
tied instead of crying during their toilet dis
tresses. Alb o'clock Mr.. James Deviue, of
the feed dealers, Bovine & Rush, al Wash
ington street, was engaged in rolling out
the last few bales of q schooner load of hay
that had been piled up in his warehouse
since Septenzber6. After all bat the last
six bales in the fCEthest corner from the
door had been taken out, he saw what
seemed the
BLACEENED. LIMBS OF A CHILD
wedged in between the bales. 1t flashed
through his mind that this might prove to
oe the solution of the mystery of the disap-
PeaTance of Josey Sullivan; so, without
waiting to make closer examination, he
went for Mr.. SpNivsnls clerk, and he iden-
titled the remains as those of the lost boy.
The features wore disfg1 red, and decompo-
sitlon was far advanced, but the fi&xen hair
and the plaid dress were proofs that could
not be doubted. The news of the finding
had be en- flashed Il the central Office, the
coroner had beer informed that an
othe- corpse was awaiting his inquest,
and Mrs. Sullivan sat still waiting. some
what impatient, perhaps, but hopeful and
expeetant. The discovery was known to the
residents of the Deighborhood. They
crowded around her door and arousd the
warehouse in which the body lay, but it was
not until O'Clock that Mrs Sullivan knew
that her boy was a corpse. Her
frst Intelligence Wes the bated ut
terance of one of the crowd aroand
the door: "Tnat's Mrs. Gullivan, and
her boy is dead in Madigau's cellar" SIR.
Sullivan heard 1t an hour later. when he re-
turned from IDS appointments with man
who had promised to find the boy for $500.
AS said before, The boy was
wEDGED IN BETWEEN TWO SALES
the furthest from the door OF entrance. Mr..
Devine says that when frst stored the hay
was piled five tiers high. On September Is,
the day on which the boy disappeared, the
hay was five tiers deep. The boy had evil
IDENTIFY climbed to the top of the bales, and
fallen in and been wedged between them.
That next above him is furrowed apparently
with his struggles in descending. Efort
seemingly ceased wien he reached the
lower bales, for his limbs were stretched out
in the easy posture of sleeping child, and
his arms were folded across his breast.
There was no emaciation To- indicate that he
starved to death. In view of the noise made
by passing vehicles and the distance of the
spot where he lay from the door at which
the men were working, it is not strange
that his cries were not heard,