The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-19
LOST CHILDREN POUND.
A Fearful Discovery Made In Cincinnati
SAturday-Desd OF Fiend.
CNcINNATI, 0HIo, Jan. 1S.-Thers va

CNcIENATl, ONO, Jan. 1s.-There va
joy and gladness and poignant sutferin
Ia two humble homes yesterday.
Four.year.old Rachel Frisch and two
year-old Charley Phillips have beel
found.
Two fond mothers hearts throbbei
with delight as each clasped to her bosom
the little darling that had been missing
from her side for many weary hours.
True, the little ones were ragged
chilled and emaciated from tho torture
and suffering they had undergone, but
they were alive still, and could teebly
return the loving caresses showered upon
them. This was enough-they were
still their oWp.
But to one Of these joyful mothers,
exulting in her newborn happiness, as
she wept over the golden.haired daugh.
ter that had come back to her, was dealt
another stroke Of agony that rendered
the sweet waters OF the cup that had
been lifted TO her lips like the dregs Of
poison.
Yesterday was enacted the sequel to
the mysterious disappearance OF the
two little College street children, who
left their homes on Wednesday evening
Just as the supper lamps were being
lighted. Bsreheaded and but scantily
clad, Rachel and Charley wandered
away amid the crowds, Two babyish
roverp, 10 see the grand sights that
lay in the land they called 'far
away" Both were rosy-cheeked
and plump, and SO hardy were
they that the chilly night air did not in.
convenience them as they strolled away
hand in hand, the little girl leading on.
They were not heard from again aqd
every effort made by the police to find
them was In vain. Now that they have
been found it is known that for three
weary nights and two agoDiEing days
these babes were locked in vacant
FIRE, without handful
nj straw to lie upon. without SHRED Of
cloth to cover their trembling limbs,
without bite to eat and without even a
drop OF water to drink.
Tnis was not enough for the little girl,
but an awful deed OF darkness must be
committed upon her. The wonder is
that her Yodng and innocent life re-
NAMED within her cruelty abused little
body. To add to the miseries Of the lost
they were within, one might
say, an arms length OF rescue at all
times. Every moment they could hear
The sound OF human voices about them;
from the window they could look out
upon the street below, and beneath the
cold floor upon which they lay they
could hear people walking to aud fro.
The two lost children were discovered
by accident by workman, who saw the
little girls face at the window Of q va
,ant house, and made an investigation.
With another man he broke in the door
II the house aud found the two chill
lren lying on the floor of bare room.
As the men stood fora moment OF hesi.
alton, one Of them turned over on her
back. An action that her companion
inflated slowly and painfully. Catch.
ng sight OF her deliyereis, the little girl
.aised herself on her elbow, and hoarse-
water, water; water, mammal Water,
The little boy tried to raise up, but fell
back exhausted and powerless to move
IN an instant the men had the poor little
Iutferers in their strong arms and were
iashing frantically out. They soon had
he little ones at home and in their
arms.
The entire detective force of the city
8 at work searching for tho brute who
,nticed the children into the room, out
.aged the little girl, and left them both
o die Of cold and hunger, How they
withstood the hunger and exposure as
ong as they did is surprising, as the
girl is not yet four years old and the
boy only little over two and half
years old.