The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-25

STRANGE AND EXCITING ADVENTURES OF
LITTLE BALTIMORE BOY.


STRANGE AND EXCITING ADVENTURES Or A
LITTLE BALTIMORE BOY.
baltimore American. yesterday
One week ago to-day the Free Summer
Excursion Society gave enc Of their excur'
sions to Ayondale. About II O'Clock in the
morning Mrs. Albert Wagner, OF north
Chapel street. missed her four.and a-half,
year.old son, Christian Albert wagner, and
some time after search was instituted iof
him. Up TO 5 o'clock in the afternoon ne
had not been found, and at that hour MIS-
Wagner left on the boat to return TO the
ei,y' convinced that her child had been
drowned.
Yesterday, however, the boy was recover
cd in a somew hal remarkable manner. Mr..
Robert Read, Of the Free Excursion Soci-
ety. with his family and some friends, bad
driven down TO Ayondae TO spend the day.
About balf.past 10 O'Clock in the morning a
man came around to the landing in boat,
and, springiDg ashore, came up to MI.
Read and bis party aud said, 81 have found
that boy that was lost" The whole party
Immediately caught the excitement, and in
a fcg moments the boy was produced from
the boat and carried ashore and laid on q
cot. His appearance was niilable. He was
wet and muddy, burned by the sun and
scratched by the bushes, and, moreover,
covered with ticks. While the boys wants
were being attended 10 by DR.. j. N. Cockrill,
son.in-law OF Mr.. Read, the man who had
thus suddenly produced what he suppose d
was the missing boy told the story OF how
he found him, as follows: His name, be
said, was George Bowen, and he was en-
ployed on the farm Of Mr.. j. Q A. Hatta-
way, which adjoiDs the eXcursiOn-grounds
on the north. Yestel day morning he went
about his usual occupation OF looking after
the horses, which are kept on the farm for
pasture. While passing Sollers's Point,
where there Is heavy marsh, be heard a
peculiar noise, and not knowing exactly
what to make OF it, and the locality being
filed with tales OF the doings OF tramps in
the locality, he ran h0me-the distance OF a
mile--snd, getting his gun, returned to the
Point.
Going down TO the marsh, he saw pro-
truding from the water the head and
shoulders OF a child, and started to get him
out. The CHILD, however, was stuck fast,
and cried out, in pitiful tone, Don't do
that. II hurts me-" Mr.. Bowen called a
fisherman to his assistance, and the two to-
eether actually dug the boy ont Of the mud.
He had sunk into it to about the waist,
while the wafer was up 10 bis armpits. He
was sinking into the quagmire, and as the
tide YVES rising, in two hours would have
undoubtedly been dead. Mr. Bowen
brought the child to Avondale in the fsber.
mans boat. He told his story in straight
forward manner, and when told Of re.
ward OF 800 that had been offered for the
child. said that was the first he had heard OF
IL. and though he was poor man and viii.
ling 10 take II, be bad not worked for il.
ON the way round the child had, in answer
To questions, said his name was Albert, and
that he lived OH Chapel street. The little
fellow went to sleep on the trip round from
sheer exhaustion.
Word was Immediately sent TO the city to
the anxious parents. aud in the mean time
everything possible was done for the child.
DIR. CockIilI administered brandy in small
doses. and aiterwsrd milk.punch and q little
food. though Of the latter the child partook
but little. He found The boys tongue and
mouth in a condition that indicated that be
had not been without sustenance during the
six days be was missing. On taking of the
boots the soles OF the feet were found COW
/. cred by1 a thick skin, and the nails were
black, indicating that they had been In the
water. or bad been much wet from some
other cause. The knees also indicated that
they had been in the water some time. The
ticks had TO be actually dug out OF bis ears,
which were very sore. The boy was very
much emaciated and very weak. DR.. Cock
rill had him rubbed with wbiskeY. He
forbade the child talking much, but the
little fellow said several things that may
In time throw some light on his dis
appearance. lie said, in answer to ques-
ton as TO where be had been, that he
had been in q house, and that they fed
him on fish and potatoes. He is also re-
y ted TO have said that man sent him into
= woods to pick blackberrles, and that
sn the man got mad he dropped bin into
80 matsh. The most plausible theory, how
= ever, Is that the child walked there. DR..
S;sckrill states that il would have been i'm
possibIe for the boy TO have existed for six
f--s on blackberfies Zone OF the theories adj
~ ced), and still less possible 10 have exist
Ga without anything at all. He believes the
boy was taken by some one and Kept until
10 was either sent or wandered Oh and into
smarsh. He does not think he could have
p 4, there over twelve hours, as he could
4 have lived longer. Near the hole In the
marsh where the boy was found there was q
place where the grass was broken down,
and Il f. believed that the boy slept there
Tuesday night, and got up, and In bis be-
wilderment wandered into the hole In The
maSb. a
The place is about two miles from Avon
dale grounds. Mr.. Wagner. accompanied
~ Mr.. frank Beisler, so north Wolf'
street. bis fatber.in-law aud q number o.
ftiepds, went to the grounds 10 the after
noon. The father recognized bis son, nnt
che boy, 10 answer to his question, said
Yes, know you; you're my papa" Hs
also named every one else In the party. HI
vas brought TO the city and taken to bi.
9ysudlsthor's TO avoid the idle crowd thai
Curiosity would have drawn to bis owl
home. He tlept most Of the time, but It was
ihe sleep NJ exhaustion. As he lay on the
ued ~ ala not appear 10 have iosl