New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-13
SEEKING LOST CHILDREN.

| CAPTAIN MAYS STRANGE EXPERIENCE
| FINDING HIS THREE CHILDREN AFTrR ForRrYrx
| YEARs-TwO PIND HOMES THROUGH IN,
) HOWARD MIssION-srSGCLAR history ov
| SCATTERED FAMILY
! The account given in THE TRIBUNp a fo,,
days ago OF the peculiar restoration TO q father az 600
| who lost for nearly fourteen year.. has broueh,
Information leading to the probable Identification and
recovery OF his two other chidfen lost at the sac,
time. The father referred 10 il CAPTAIN Charles M,
one Of the oldest seafar men In hi. city C,pt,ir
May bad married In Liverpool 1853, aud r,turpins
to America, had settled III Williamsburg in Is63 NM,
wife and he lived happily together until 1868 when
| Mrs. May left her husband She also aband ned no,
children. This broke mp the Captains home and being
about to start voyage. ne gave the three children
! to the care OF Intimate acquaintance. The o,des,
| child whose name Charles, SIX years Of aga.
Edward the second child. two years old and TIE
| third. Fanny, was infant. Since Mr. May. de-
paruro for at rat time he has nothing Of L,
! children.
! He recently saw in one OF the New-York papers an
account OF the Offerings Of cripple hoy, who gave IN.
name as Charles May. and who. at his request bad
been sent to PRISON in Newark " j. Being deeply in.
! pressed that the bOv the eldest Of his three
children. he went to Newark, ideltiaed him, and
brought him to hi3 home in this city. Charles had been
sent 10 Randall's Island when very young aud after
ward had been placed farm near Tegre Haute Ind
! He had walked all the way from Indiana to Newark.
! Yesterday statement received at THE TRIBUNE
Office from H. F. Miles, OF Emira. whose attention had
calcd the OF the Of the oldest
child. Mr.. Niles says he possibly enable Cantaih
May 10 find the boy Edward aud also the daughter
Fanny. The or ppe Charles ne knows nothing Of
Some years ago. about S66 he writes. "tWO children
taken from the Howard Mission IN New-iork City
one OF whom was boy named Edward Nay, three yean
OIL and the other girl, named Fanny May then two
years Of &c, the children Of Captain Charles = May
They were taken 10 Emlra, - Y Edward came to
live with me when he egtt years Old and has
since remained IN my family. Hc Wit be seventeen in
March" M Niles has IN his pos 'css.on Photograph
OF Captain Charles :. May Edwaris father ana think,
without doub. that the Captain May IN this clty must
be the father 81 the boy his family. ~ to ilr May,
daughter he says tho captain get clew 10 be BY
coming TO Elmla.
The statement OF Nh Niles va, shown to Captain Nav
by TRIBUNE reporter last evening. VINO ouud him at
restaurant on Nonroe-st. taking hl' suppel The cap
tam SCENE quite overcome Wtth emotion beng tod
OF Mr.. NiIs's statement
1T 4 piece Of information," De said, "t'at have
been seeking FOR years AMI IL gives me great comfort
10 know mat my lo,t ch drrn actually alive ard
probably wei cared Tor" Tie stated ,nnt he had re.
ceiyed a letter from rr,Od IN Wavcrly, y. y. ilai
bis two children. Edward and Fancy were m Eimifs
bat nothing della te had been learned about them
CAPTAIN May then re1ear,ed tie Story II his
separation from lis ch Grcn after his 0lfc left
him No man, Ee believed, with li' tender
affections. ever had a saddcr domestic le
His wife he always supposed, ran away " On aDoer
man. Ihou< hr never knew the i1ct GA December IL.
l~1l sue app dfcl o. nm slutuS diI ' "a ss
Dee sb0ud 1--we WITH hel, winch d. reused 10 do she
htl nm arrest d and r.u@Dt before amaglsrd" On
r4i.r rrusiug To SUupOr hcr, ul ICE was SchafEed
wnen hr "a OF h.rdcs-luon of lu aua "a. cyiinren
/ bu was again discharged. Capa "A Nav .ieIfS 10 the
most air.upuate TENS Of hi, c"ldeh Que 81 whom ne
d-.l-htcd To hs c,ildrcn, lac saws ana VIII WODaoy
vs.t hs con Al the -ht work in watch Cap
ne earns on; - "A week. and cannot sup on us
! children th, sum- lie wi allow them 70 Iemaln
adIS ~! wei l,opt ~ 1mn C9tidrrn's wing
% JASON "' i'm Tcath-"i.. ana vii p,otab;
/ nuu a good nome there Nj. May - Low
/ bDut sixty wear, old, aud hears "a good reputation
scout hut MS speech nud mani els are 50 hLd'i hni
a., history to doubt that had been exposed 10
At t!r Inward Mission J.; was learned thai the cb
IN 200. I.iNatd was tour o Il IA Harcu o. tDat
wear .'G Ftily two years of !.c in April They came
IA. cli drcn Of Charles :. Nav sea ,apiai', Who I
u,- oc.yc.i, wa, dead. \ tEird c.Ild oi Charles =
May named e. arcs. who VA, Two wears oder tlal
ElmaG WIS SrOhrn AZ AZ tne TIM" Ia aid dad Fanny
were br.u-At To he Ms,iDu bat Br was retained Jy nd
captain May. ran away alter Driug separated from hI;
from him Toward and .nuy. H. app az, bg the
Howard MI-slor books. were taken b. families
an l. MIRA Edward renamed four years Nrn
/ ono family aud att,rwd.d Wa, given ia 70
the care 81 H. +. Mis-, IN EraIra. ia Who's
api ~ p, ~ present. he cHtrrn Seals oid
Fanny Remained IA ElHirI zen years. when >"o Wa.
brougHt back TO The luSt.'utO u "a, an upc utr0ibe
/ sac Ma Represented 40 az WItul disposition. -.
iarI Nul wor'>. eud 4, EcraN Ui,Ou-Oirut d.
careless. these faults were due manly 10 rcr lack o.
TaIuIIg, n thUu2ht, Jul tUU-' who ias Ae' b
charge tlry came WIfI utl 20 iuc M-s on VIZ
severely rcprIDaudrd By the oi1ccr, The b. N y W.
oI means and could well AaTr t.Aru propr. talt o.
her. Fanny next went to ave ti "A ianiN IN At"ahl
DJ her mmly disposition showed Itself L. NGch Al eN
tent that she finally returned 10 thr Mission sec
und time. Nh"r, Fanny uOW ives, tnc AiiSSl "a prefer
not 90 nave Il publicly known she - Uaer 81, nov"
ever, L. ho IN an excel ent idIy. She - uUS ni'rn
wears old BOth cnIldIen under thC rouIOI OI ne
Howard Mission aud Will he until they ae t"edE on,
years old, unle>S suitable provision " maze loi
lnCu by lhClr father.