The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-21
A NOMADIC MOTHER.
She is Wandering Over the Coun'
try Searching for Her Stolen
Child.
Falls From a Train and Dislecates
Her Hp-Her Story.
rSD BY THE wAYsIDE

~, S,ndsy afternoon Officers Miller and
w. reported to Chief of Police Moonlight
,,., - woman was lying by the side of the
,.Isay track, below the freight depot, neal
I'M. old mill, and that from the Information
obtained by them She had been lying there
since the evening fore, her thigh having
been broken by jumping from = Railway
train The chief notified the Mayor, who re-
turned answer that The woman WIS properly
th,. charge of the county aud not OF tne city
aud acc Jrdingly the chief dlspatched mote
to county phy siciah hathay ae G',n
missi, n.r Richards was tnen notlned, VINO
Otdrfed the oman taken 10 he sisters NOS
piIal, at Seventh and NOVA street, whete
IT, row Ii-- aid re- Giving all the care aud
attention possible. Her thigh was iOunu 10
b. brog en-, tut beyond that her Injuries are
not OF a serious nature
THE woMAN's STORY.
The story told by the woman, who gives
her name a. Mary Colts, Is one Well caicuiai'
:, Ia rnu,.- tn. sympathIes OF everyone; a
story of suffering and great sOr ow oi agony
of soul and dire bereavement; a little one
bIlyht.a; a long and weary chase after the
destroyer OF her happiness; iallins by the
wa> sile, yet into most hospltapie banos
she stale, that last August her child WAS
stolen from IA, 7 by "A man naIne1 motifs, from
her home in Lagrange, Mississippi, ana ihai
rIncr tnat time She has been ON ths seafcn
for heI offspring She had und. rtood that
Morris had gone to California ana gettlns 10
y,th,.r AL the money she could raise she pro
ce,-i,-d To San Francisco where, with The aic
vi
THE PoIICE AND DETECTIVE FORCE
of that city, she made thorough search,
but which pios.d uusSailInz. Turning her
lace eastward, stopping nj every point "uefs
,n. mo, ght she could obtain the slightest
cue she arrived al they enne, where her
money WAS stolen from her. She obtained a
tnar m
She started again ON h.r journey, stopping
successIyely nj omaha, ~ Joseph ana Atch-
i>on nnaIly arriving al Leaven~orth on sat
urtiay afternoon. Wishing To go TO Kansas
CIV. she bparded a train then moving out OF
the Union Depot, buI which proved 10 DE "A
coal train on the Kansas PACING. The con.
wIrn near the old mill, just belo = the freight
C..-lspt She attempted 10 get OH. The train De-
ing in motion, she
FELL HEAVILY To THR GRoUUD,
dislocaiing her hip No one on the train saw
her IaII, and rs that Is rath ioheiy pIace
and utII. irrqu-nIed AT night, She lay there
ali night. unable 10 lse, suiIrrlns eAcfuIat-
ing pam and chilled through by uie aninp,
CO Il night air, until the next uay lar III me
Afternoon Finally Officers 4 lerkts anu hi'-
l,.r n,-ard of the Ia tier AID pTocecdlns 10
thr, spot found her in a pltapie cohuitIon.
-,,. tuid The officers her SO ana tney al
once. naa. the Iacts known 10 the Chi.I oi
pnucr Sn,. Is now yang at the SISTERS Hos
pllal resting easily, and upon the ROAD 10
rapid recovery. lie Is Pieasaht aPpeaiins
woman, with none OF the chaiactei'shcs oi
H.. T. n,,,I,- Tramp. and from sIl that Can he
sen Is not insane. She gave the eutlre MS
toIy @. her travels, from heI home IN the lar
south to the M-trOf OILS oil the occluen', anu
~ eager To recover SION as possible IN ofuet
that
She has lost all trace OF the man MO ris,
whom she claims stole her child, Yet win
tn,. ,I,.rerminatiun OF mother she cilngs 10
nn,.. and f-ry-nt expectation and Will con
tinue TO nunt until every hope l. gone, She
h,,, left descriptions Of MOTIFS IN The Sarlons
cities aud towns where she Mss s.oPP.o -
nav. some sorI OF founda ion upon wnlch
10 work IL was her Intention TO go 10 Nan
sss CITY aud from there TO ST. Louis, MAKING
1,,,,,,r:,-s .II along IN. route. Ii Is u pitiabie
ca,r- lf true, and no one should wlthhoiu
ann assistance in their power to rendel-