Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-20
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 r have no doubt t. it will will 'as you and Mrs Kendall eaI k'san,s s'r news you have ever l .,,, tell you what you do |sa, tnav about Powell's disap- z ll'gi discovery. He was born ssrs till he was nearly 10 10 Dsi1 a;s parents died when he ..a iII he was adopted by his ,'bsr a''p who treated him rather 2 '1sl name was Charles Preston, p.pls p who adopted him was EsII ''l' he was known as ,9l Charles sl. s.ll sl Smarting under some N loft his home and ran ' pssr IT he had drifted to New '5snged his name at once on r r1b from this locality, fearing Ia give his own name he 0,s easily followed.
 ,,s ms that when he went into I4an l.s q year ago the 27th of bsard two customers talking Is matters, and that one of If T recent visit he had old home. Powell at once .s WAS often his custom, and visit to his own birthplace Fptifying and improving his |jsl plot and of erecting suit Fsnts over the graves of his |potber. He dreamed of the Pn he used to fish, the hills Ebs had hunted, the orchards
 he had eaten fruit, this flown in which he had been Ould scarcely believe when se that he had been dream al had it all seemed. That it all over and went to le next morning q changed up his route he made the l found il "Ben-Hur. /" s figures were superfiuous.
 YOU will remember that he the figures 8:19, and l sup pated q change of cars. It h, the time his train would h Middletown, Pa. and he atch q glimpse of the town, sting his way eastward as ad spent several months at He came directly through yrail and then took 6 river s nearly 50 miles south of left the boat where he could etiOns by railroad to the seven miles away. By a Eof the different time cards hs same route and left the station mentioned at the nd minute Mir. Powell left but lO months ago. As the the station it ran in on a nd on leaving the coach I bed to Hook out for the then l heard the rumbling paching train, and in an in- Aed past at great speed.
 Oawas probably never given ll for when he left his train p frunt of the fast express. shout, and he jumped, but wholly escape. for he was Hiast the depot platform, edlng, senseless and almost physicians had patched him RE could, they searched his snething that might give Identity. They found over Paey but not a scrap of pa aletter or anything to dis ne
 d between life and death Eo weeks, but finally par h consciousness and told ane Was Charles Preston mat his residence was in a0fts were made to find his
 but none was now alive. ,s sfed the boy of 25 years
 VI not tell where he had Interim.
 essll his whole life from " ran away from the home 'eelyed i'll treatment until
 "asclousness in the hotel s,, ne Was simply Charles M q iarm lad, anxious to N uncle. He had no recol- Y y. other place, of business
 ' names, dates or events.
 " sssas s a runaway boy; he !, V ma himself a man in .ss a money, strange cloth 'a'! aa Other articles in his 'llse which he had never ',tli ms Knowledge.
 ss,a liag over five months be- sss,t ss's to leave his room. The its s,ll made a satisfactory ,t,.,' n nm, m and when he had o@s susth he came over here ', ss, used a portion of his 'psn ss' : a :, dealer in produce IsLss.. v the prosaie life of a
 psr. ssp Sometimes he ]s' iaScsed s's in grasping the a bs ea' aa.l,, t would slip away |rui \ ss'.' Would plod along in