The age-herald., 1899-07-12
HIS MOTHER RESIDED HERE
Monday Afternoon Mrs. Emna Smith
 Lsit for Cleveland.
PLAIN sEAMsTREsS OF 60 YEARS
Son Met Her At the Train Story More Like Fiction Than the Record of Every Day
 Events

Cleveland. O., July n.-F. c. Getchel, an insurance agent living here. who was kid mapped when an infant, twenty-five years ago, and his mother were reunited tonight.
 The mother, Mrs. Emma Smith, came from Birmingham, Ala. where she was To- cated after a long search, and was met at the train by her son. The meeting was an affecting one, the mother, who is 60 years of age, being accepted by the son without question. The story Mrs. Smith tells of the Kidnapping is to the effect that the in- fant was taken by relatives to New Or leans and there placed in an orphan asy lum.
 The boy remained there until he was 15 years of age, when he came north, and after living in various places, he came to this city. lie is now married and has two small children.
 The details of how Mrs. Smith came to learn the whereabouts of her long lost son form several chapters which read more like fiction than the record of plain every day events.
 Mrs. smith resides at z15lz North Twenty second stseet, and Iaade.s modest lisins ly sewing. aho had resided here for u.ay yeals aaa up until last Weal. she hal given up hope oi eyer finding any trace ol her son. She Was coueiy woman with motherly eyes and grey hair. Hef ngisl- bors admired A4t for her Qule,, UuoD-ru4lyc disposition.
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 He sant his soo5 mohar fhe funds and Monday afternoon. whom reporter called Mrs. smith had a newly puHeaase1 Vard- rope packed and was ready to leave for Cleveland.
 She Was SO highly elate5 over the surprise in stars for her and so tesy with her pack in- sas, she hardly found ume to give th2 details.
 et. hss been nearly twenty-five years ag9 tha- nay 1S9onths old haHy ~as kif- mapped" said she. "I was iil at the lime and t was al so mysterious. They kept t from me for days and days. Tor a long lime I thagh' my precious boy had died while I Was il. ! can spend the rest of naE days happy and nov that l have found him will forgive the Uratches who have caused laa so much misery"
 Mrs. Smith was the haepiast mortal laaT- ing tho union passenger station Monday afternoon. She waived goodbye to her friends and smiled as the train puled out.
 1t is believed that the Sutherland woman either knew of the Kidnapping incident or MS implicated in il. The theory is that she had withheld tho guilty secret until eonseience-snitten, srai in measure re- paired the wrong by bringing the son and parent to a happy reunion.