The San Francisco call., 1899-07-12
AN AMADOR
MAN FINDS HIS
LONG LOST SON
Duggan's Search Is
Ended.
MEETING AFTER MANY YEARS
EACH THOUGHT THE OTHER
LONG SINCE DEAD.
A Casual Remark Leads to the Meet
ing Of "Billy George" and
the Author of His
Being.

A father and his son.. strangers for
TWENTY-FIVE years, each considering the
other dead met few evenings ago In
this city. The father is Theodore c. Dug
gan, one of the solid citizens of Plymouth
Amador County, and proprietor OF two
stage lines running from that point. HIS
newly discovered son, who has long gone
by the name of William George, is better
known to the one-time frequenters OF the
old Baldwin billiard rooms as Baldwin
George"
The meeting was arranged by James
Orndorf, one of the proprietors of the
Baldwin Annex, and took place last Fri
day in front of the bar of that resort.
BILLY" said Orndorf, presenting the
young man to an elderly gentleman, ''this
is your long lost father. Mr.. Duggan,
your son, Billy George!
The reunited pair clasped hands, took
a good look at each other T and nd shook: Ioo
father, releasing the hand OF his new
found son long enough to reach into his
pocket for the price.
man in. response to the inquiry of the bar
tender as to the nature of hiS tipple.
Whats that?" exclaimed the father,
hastily placing on the bar the bottle from
which he had just poured a couple or SUN
fingers. whats that!
IA little rye" replied the young fellow.
OrnQOrt COulQ see from IUe BuDl III lHo
eye of the elder man that he did not like
the idea that his son was drinking WHISKY.
He saw that the happy reunion mlght De
disrupted if he did not act promptly
Don't you worry, he SAID TO Duggdn,
because your son is drinking a little
whisky. I've known him for. fifteen years
and never saw the sign of liquor on him
vet You two just go over there, sit down
and have a good talk. You'll find the boy
knows how to take care of himself.
Father and son sat down at one OF the
tables. They had not been talking two
minutes before Orndorf saw Duggan eX-
tend his arms and with tears streaming
from his eyes clasp the young man to
his breast. Time and again curing the
yisibly affected, and when he arose TO
accompany his son to meet an entirely
unsuspected daughter-tn-law and two
grandchildren, he was is proud as Punch.
On the way to the home on Sixth street
he became so demonstratiVe in his ar
fection for the newly discovered son that
a policeman was on the point of arrest
ing him. The bluecOat did stop them, but
satisfied with their explanation OF the
reason for the JOY allowed them TO pro
ceed on their way. Duggan met his son
wife and hugged his children and spent
all of Saturday with the family, return
ing to his home at Plymouth Sunday. he
would have taken the entire family with
him had not Mrs. George been too i'll to
stand the journey.
The separation of the elder and younger
Duggan took place at Monterey more
than a quarter of a century ago, as the
result of the divorce of his father and
mother. Duggan left for parts unknown
to his former wife, and the boy. upon the
remarriage of his mother to man named
George, took the surname of his step
father The father went to Amador
County and there married a. Miss Millie
Hayden, who is the mother of his two
other sons and two daughters. The boy,
as the years passed; considered Il his father
country, locating permanently in this city
some five years ago. From time to time