Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-18
ROMANCE o ~ SEDUCTION.
Strange Adventures of Man Who Was
stolen by the Indians When 3 Child.

stolen by the Indians When Child.
There r barber named Eeary Petit
who MSS 8 rare tsle OF adventure 70 tell
concerning himself. OF how he was stolen
when four years old by the Indians, and
how be finally found his father Petit
was born in ISSS al rhs Indian trading post
peSr Huron. Mich. where his father hsd
81 exchsoge Store and was patronized by
the Indians
In I>ia Turkey Foos, chief Of the Black
Creek Indians, set into difficulty with
the father Of Petit, claiming that he hSd
given him q wildcat" dollar in makine
cbange This was denied by Petit, who
would not take back the money. The In
dian went away mad. and vowing that he
would get even. The Indians shout this
time sold their lands about Port Huron,
and were being removed TO s reservation
near the present city OF Ssndusky. This
Indian ST once executed s plan 20 set re
venge on Petit.
The night before Turkey Foot left he
stole the boy n this manner: He found
our that Pe;ViVwss not st home one night,
and he entered the house about midnight.
Walking lightly scroSs the floor ne Serked
the sleeping, babe from the arms OF the
mother, who awoke in alaF-n. only Co f;na
thar her baby was zone. \ diligent search
fSllatt 10 ind a trace OF the missing bc<,
and he was given upas dead. The Indian
took the lad, now four years old, 70 Ohio,
where 81 ofd sqQsw took charge Of him.
There was s white man with the tribe
named Timothy Crocser, whom the In.
dians sen; hsck 30 Port Huron GO tell Pet
1T THAI MS boy had died in Canada. Thus
Jle parents were made 10 sslieveths <heir
10y wgs dead The lad kvsd with the
Indians Unyli elevsn years old, when 3 man
named EOw>eF, OF WilliamSport, Pa, who
was acCcoS Jce>s Indians bought the boy
-or q small SoCSlGsration and took him
back 70 his home. The boy there learned
the baCce-s' trade. buc Is 10 where the
Indians co- him lie coUld not remetnbere
he was SENT % >cboo. AZ Republic, o.
where lie received a license 70 teach. He
was there Eo.nE ~ the name of Timothy
CrocSer. and II lSa5 he WAS marked t.
Miss Cacha-ile Eckert. who lived az Del
phi, this state, where lie purchased bar.
be- shop.
When 5Ee war commenced he enlisted
II the Ninth laGiaDa infantry While
this regiment was with Sherman in the
march - the sea" and in Alaharna,
''Crccker" waS approached By a man wh1
asked him his nSme, Croker told him,
and the man denied it, saying that ne was
the very counterpart 81 = Mr.. Petit, az
Port Huron. Mich; JcSc lie mus, t1e ths
missing son. long since slppoSe5, TO Ia
dead. The stranger took the name OF the
town where Croker lived. and told him
that when the war closed proof would be
presented showing that Timothy Croker
was Henry Petit, the son ot Edward
Petit. ~
After ysne war Croker settled AZ
Westvi,le. near la Porte, where he soon
heard from TIE mysterious person who had
told him such a strange story while in the
army This was soon followed bv a te.e-
gram from Edward Petit, of Port Huron,
Mich, saying. Come 81 once and lose nc
time, " Croker went, hardly knowing
what . think would be the outcome Of his
"trip. He arrived 81 Port Huron. Ar>d upon
stepping from the train he met his father
face % face-cwo men almost the exact
imsSe ot each other. There could be nc
miStAkinE the fact that one was the father
and the other the son The mother had'
died many years betore.-Cor. Indianapolis
Journal.