The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-12-10
cR7 vSON IS FOUND.
Sf''sS' SfsSl TORY OF MAYNARD
'6,ssANSAS YOUTH,
q. -aMAIMED FOR AIMS
o Norris Fair. Son of Ex-senator
y Fair. OF Kansas, Runs Away
on Account OF Fancled
Burrs HIS
Leg with Caus-
tic Acid

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A joyful yet pathetic meeting took
- place In this city yesterday, shortly
= after the south. bound train arrived,
when ex Senator ID. J. Fair Of Kansas
recovered his long lost and much.
~ sought-fcr son, Norris Fair, who has
been missing from his home in Sterl-
= ing, Kan, since last October. Ever
!, since the lads disappearance the news.
, papers all over the west have contained
: descriptions OF his appearance with
: qiberal rewards offered by his father
, FOR Information as TO his whereabouts
/. and trained detectives have secured
: state after state in fruitless endeAvor
80 find some trace OF him, but It re.
nv nv ined for some Of Guthrie's good
ebar Fitans to carry JOY into the hearts
?tn1in growing family.
1is famweeks ago today l5-year-old
iuS or bNehes appeared at the home
kp I'D offered some l0.cent thin.
a II BirIee. $50 othing i 4 the young.
Ch ance. Editors fused the conn pas.
nat west will be in es, VINO invited
JsllS%S65re sll%6 ole. endeSpo !intere5 end out how
sis,h boy came to be in the condition
was in She was told that he was
, an orphan, his father dying years age
before he was old enough to know
him and that his mother had died
about year ago in Omaha Upon be.
ing questioned as TO the cause OF his
leg being bRndsged, the hoy said that
he had been in an accident and that
his leg was severely burned. An ex.
animation OF the injury convinced Mrs
McNames that the boy was more a a I
fsubject for the hospital than attempt.
ing to make his own living, and when
her husband came home for his dinner
from Brunner's blacksmith shop, where
he is employed, it was decided to give
the Lad a home until he was fit TO
travel. In the afternoon the boy was
taken to City Physician Buxton's Office
trShere II was discovered that from the
DC Co clear TO the ankle the outside OF
sR9t-g hRs chas'SEdly burned by some
destroying acid. In his forts
= ascertain how IL had been done and
for what purpose, the doctor aroused
the ire of Mrs. McNames, who took
the boy home again and called in DR.
H. l., Smith, who dressed the injured
limb and made the sufferer as conf fort
able as possible.
1t was but short time until Mr..
and Mrs. McNAmes began to suspect
that the boy was not what he wished
to appear, and that instead OF being a
youthful tramp as he claimed he was
something very much different His
underwear was OF the finest, he was
well educated and his manners were
OF a polish not ordinarily acquired in
box cars. Notwit ithstanding the boy s
Iepeated Rssertghs that he had no
,.---.-.s,'us,. mr McNames wrote the
, chief OF police Of several cities in
Nebraska and Kansas asking them IL
they knew Of any missing boys in
their cities day or two since, Just
as the youth was leaving Dr.. Smiths
Office, where he had been for treatment,
the doctors attention was attracted 10
q paragraph in a Wichita paper de.
scribing an inmate Of one OF the hospi.
tails there, followed 10y the statement
that II might turn out TO be the miss
ing son OF Senator Fair, OF Sterling
Kan. DIR. smith immediately sent the
paper to the house where the boy was
staying and the next train going north
carried a letter from Mr.. McName
describing the boy and enclosing b
small piece OF the shirt worn by the
1OuNh nuNh hAhN GhuG 10 hulnElG
The information was also conveyed TO
Mr.. Fair that the lad who might be
his son had fallen in with some tramp
who had burned his leg badly with
caustic potash in order that he might
appear more worthy object Of
charity. BY return mail came letter
from Mr.. Fair minutely describing his
Json and saying that while his wife felt
sure II was her boy, yet he did not be.
cause he was intimately acquainted
'i-. sffs sons disposition and that the
, youth was ''gamy" enough TO die be-
fore submitting to being burned. Mr..
Fairs description, however, Tailed SO
completely that Mr.. Mechanics i'm
1ediately telegrGphed Mr.. Fair that
4 ere was no mistake, and that gen
:, seman took the first train for this
:, ny. The meeting between father
y son WAS most affecting, the father
h specially displaying great emot on.
IL was not until late last night. how
yer, that the boy broke down. con-
Tied TO return home and related
story OF his wanderings. AL
hem2ugh the youngest child, the
se,rpl Of proud father and mother,
", reared IN the lap Of luxury he had
=. andoned everything rather than
Urn 70 echool Nhefe ne nad played
tics Ant the previous day. On his way
.he a school he threw hls b loks over a
7, ige fence and started out To see life
tramp. He begged his way from
p" use u house until he finally struck
attpeddler of npectacles, with whom he
'm ~ his lot.
eirp,et Arkansas City he fell in with
d ~ professional beggars who per-
untf led him 10 allow his leg to be
ED with acid in order that he
mignt'- 2aore successfully extract un-
willing dimes froIa-s}ae hard-hearted
world ia general. BY mistake too
much OF the stuff was put on aud the
hoY has nnrroVYlV eecaned lnosinr his