Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-10-21
A WEARY SEARCH.
A Father Gives Up and Dies While
Hunting for q Long Lost
Son.
The Mother Persists In the Quest
and Finds Her Lost OAR
ling 10 Toronto.
How the Little Fellow Tried for
Two Long Years to Return
to His Parents.

ToRoEro, ONT, October O.-Abouta year
and half ago boy named Henry Eraner.
mann was brought from Epgland with
party Of children and placed in home ct
Gait. The child was . fair.haired, blue
eyed youth OF ten, whose parents were in
duced to part with him BY promises that
he would be educated and brought up we'll.
He wa. taken by Dutch farmer, who ap.
preciated his slight German accent and
fran kness, as q chore boy. The work Vas
Too Mach for His siekly Frame,
and after few weeks he began to yearn
for his home and friends. In . short time
this yearning overcame all other feelings,
and be ran away from his master, returning
TO the home at Gait after wandering aim (,
lessly around the country Tor two weeks.
He pleaded piteously, with tears In his
eyes, 10 be sent home TO his friends again.
The authorities told him that this Was i'm
possible and set him TO do light work
sround the home. Suddenly, however, he
disappeared, and an active search failing 70
discover his whereabouts, foul play Was
suspected, but the police where unsb!e. al
though inquiries were made far and vide,
Gais Any Tiaing- or HIus.
The boys parents, who were residing In
England, were informed OF his disappear.
snCe and the search was given np. The
boys mother was stricken with grief upon
receiving the news, and she impiored her
husband TO visit Canada and endeavor 20
lind her boy. But they were poor and
found some ditaculty in gathering money
enough 10 pay their passage. This vas at
last accomplished, and upon arriving At
Montreal they began the sad task Of hnd.
irc the missing child. The German Con.
sul at Montreal and Toronto were commu-
uCatsd With, and they too Joined In the
search. Notices were inserted in the pa.
Iers Of every city and town OF Ontario,
but without success The fathers health
,oon broke down under the great mental
an 1isty caused ny the loss OF his son, aud
He Peb sick aud Dt>a
several months ago.
This double aDiiction only spurred on tho
widowed mother TO redouhlsd energy IN
her search. by toiling earl and late, she
managed to scrnpe together enough money
to come on to Toronto. where she resumed
the search. Every village and town In
Waterloo county was visited, she sustain.
ipK herself by peddling pin cushions aud
other small wares. Broken hearted She
was at last compelled from sheer eIhaus-
ton 10 give up the task and return 10 tbs
city. On Tuesday last she stated that .
| boy answering the description OF her son
was in the employ of n farmer near Oshua
and she had Just returned home from the
| post office where she had posted letter In
| 1uirng about the youth In question, when
| the door opened and
Her Lopg.io.t Sen walked -.
| The Joy OF the mother at once more clasp
| ing in her arms her son, may be easier
| imagined than described. On being assured
| that il was her long lost Henry she tainted
| away, but soon recovered, To know that she
| had found him at last after au interval of
| three years and well nigh desperate search
| Of a years duration.
The manner in which the boy managed
| 10 turn up" at so unexpected q moment
| is almost romantic in the strange conjunc-
ton OF circumstances which brought II
| about. Is appeared that be had run away
| from the home In Gait determined, with
cbIldliko faith, that he would get back ~
The old country by some means or oiaer.
lie got on board train, snd happening ID
be noticed by a kind passenger, b. told him
be bad no place to 90 and wanted 10 get
back TO
His Father and Mother
in England. The gentleman was much 10.
terpsted in the little fellow aud kept him
with him all the way 10 New York, where
Henry managed 10 start IN the ne essboy
line OF business. From that he graduated
TO rrrand boy for the Western Union Tsls-
graph Company, and WIS oil the while
watching his chance to get q passage on .
steamer for England. unfortunately. he
got In com pany with gang Of street arabs,
With whom he was arrested one night by .
detective ON a charge OF vagrsncy. Not be-
rg sb.e 10 plead his cause he Was sen.
snC- 10 year in the Training school for
Whii.. There he was closely watched, and
ur'I his incarC' ration took sick and was
,Guu,d to skeleton Of skin and bones.
g. II the brave little fellow never suerved
ON his purpose OF getting back 70 his
ti'nr I'd home" and on being released
,ri 10 VOTk to earn money for the trip.
gbings Went Against Him,
hnwover, AID the thin littie vail. bufsted
- out in he cold word. struggled In vsin
.. sffufrulais the neosssary funds. After
wondering about for some time he was at
length taken up by q society Of kind
monks. who sent him 10 the institute In
Louisville, Ky, to be educated. He took
10 his new situation quite kindly, and the
months passed by Pleasantly. by the
mer'st chance q scbOolmats happened 70
Isy his hands on q copy Of the Hamburg
Sun OF . month ago. In IL was the notice
inserted By Mrs. Ernnermsnn for Informs
ton OF her son, Henry Brnnsrmann. rhs
EcboolmOte drew attention 10 the resem
bisDce between his Bsme and thst In the
advertisement. The nOtIes was signed ny
Mrs. ErDnermann. That was enough. Ny
moiber dear, bsye found be-" Lhs happy
boy exclaimed. II d. not take long - do
the packing un, money was provided Tor
the jourDsJ and sfter tso days tiP be
arrived
A. Bk sa'hsrS Door
jU.t ,'tsr she had a ace her last attempt 70