The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-12
TIE wAIF OF LOGAN SQUARE.
Police and Detectives Fail to Find the
Mother Who Lost Elm.

POllC6 All0 O0N0CIlNe5 Ill TO 1lQ the
Mother Who Lost Elm.
From the Philadelphia Ilquirer
The city detectives called him 'Fauntle-
row. but no Dearest came to claim him
Yesterday. 1t was the fiaxen-haired waif of
5 years, with splendid lineaments and deli
cate, sweet ways. and who was found wan
dering in Logan square on Saturday night,
to whom they referred. The strange mys-
terry of the child found no solution yester-
daY, and the police turned him over to the
Society to Protect Children from Cruelty.
They hope some tender-hearted person viii
give him a home.
The boy cried yesterday. He was taken
TO a temporary home, and his big, sad eyes
filled up as he asked the stalwarJ officer of
the society when he could see his t'moover.n
For thirty-six hours he had been Questioned,
questioned, questioned; now by this one and
now By that, until he had been cross-exam-
med and re-cross-examined fully a hundr ed
times.
"FAR, FAR AWAY.n
ssWho is your mother, my little man o,
asked kindly-faced old gentleman. The
weak and faltering voice replied:
''Mrs. Brunt"
"Mrs. BROWNE Where does she iyeYn
"No Mrs Brunt."
''Got any fathersn
Eyes"
'Where is hep
"Far, far away, in another country"
"And where Is your brother Arthur and
sister Ida you told me aboutg'
Ear, far away, in another country
"Where did you come fromm
'Fsr, far away, from another country.n
The little fellow finally said his name was
Charley. He said he had come in a train
and a big boat over the ocean. He said
yesterday it was the Lord Cough. On Sun
day he could not remember the name of the
boat Yesterday he said the boat was ''as
big as whole river"
"How long have you been heres" asked
Detective Almendinger.
''Free, five days"
The Lord Cough arrived here on Nav 81
the last time, but there is no record of the
boy, or any one by the name of Brunt on
the books for the vessels last two passages
The detectives think he has been trained
to tell these "far, far away" and Lord
Cough" stories. Nevertheless, the boy has
a broad accent in his English which suggests
residence in the North of England or in
Scotland. He SAYS "gautn for SCOT. y
'shawp" for shop When asked where
his mother is the boy yesterday invariably
said; "In the shawp." He added:
Uncover left me on bench and said to
stay there till she came back. Please take
me to her."
The voice is effeminate. There is nothing
robust or boyish about him. The big ewes
and hidden voice respond to questions
promptly, but the boy seems to be awaken
ing from torpor. as if he had been drugged
or very i'll. He has intelligent and refined
ways and a French appearance. His chin
is decidedly sharp. While he was not
abashed before the big men who bent their
heads and listened eagerly to his words. he
was not forward. Good breeding is stamped
in every word and move, and the woman
who is caring for him said yesterday that
he used his knife and fork like an aristo-
GRAFT"
POSES, BUT WORN CLOTHES.
Moreover, the child is exceedingly grace
full, and he unconsciously posed himself
against a chair yesterday and stood there as
patiently as a model while Press artist
sketched him. His person was not clean.
but through the dirt and his rather rough
clothing there was an air of the gentry
about him. He wore Oxford ties made of a
fine grade of kid, but they wore broken at
the heel and had been sewed with black
thread. His stockings were of good quality.
His trousers had been made by some woman,
and next his skin he wore a flannel waist
that did duty for shirt as well. He had a
blush coat that was evidently intended for
an overcoat. 1t had little punches Of thread
all over it His hat was of white straw,
the breaks sewed here and there, and a blue
ribbon round it as band. He said 1t was
his brothers, who lived in that "uzzer big
house."
The police begin to believe that the little
fellow and his mother are of high birth, but
misfortune has come upon them. The
mother, they think, may have come to this
country and after struggling to get work in
some ''shop." and finding it impossible,
abandoned the boy in Logan Square in the
hope that some of the well-to-do residents
would pick him up and care for him. If the
boy were older they declare that he might
be "acting and pretending ignorance, be-
cause he is too intelligent not to
know some of the things he has
asked. All traces of his identity have been
destroyed, and it is believed that the picture
of the nun in his oil-cloth sachel, on which
was the inscription, "Sister Charlotte,
daughter Of the Bishop of ST. Andrews"
which was taken in Perth, Scotland, is a
mere blind to cover his identity. Neverthe-
less, the boy has a slight Scotch accent.
Meanwhile intense sadness and misery
flow from the child's big eyes, and the
woman with whom he is temporarily stop
ping is going to get him playing with other
children to see if some clue may not be
secured in thiS yvaxr RI hic iJapfitxr