The age-herald., 1900-02-06
LAST CHAPTER OF A THRILLING STORY Dorsey Young Fully Restored to Her Anxious Mother. REACHED HOME YESTERDAY Was Kidnapped by Her Father Nearly Eight Years Ago-Tells Piteous
 Tale of Hardship and
 Suffering
REACHED HOME YESTERDAY

After an absence of nearly eight years, little Dorsey Young, who was kidnapped by her father Jack Young. from her grand fathers home in this city. yesterday re- turned to Birmingham, having been re- stored to her mother and relatives through a series of most exciting incidents.
 During this long separation this little girl has undergone many strange ex- periences which go to form a story in- tensely interesting. and one which reads more like fiction than a drama depicting scenes from real life. The child has endur- ed hardships and vicissdtudes which are al most startling in their nature, and the fact that she is now within the embrace of a tender mother makes the story all the more remarkable.
 H. O. Hoyt, Mrs. s. G.. Harris, his daugh- ter, and her husband, with little Dorsey, the long lost child of Mrs. Harris arrived from London, Ky, yesterday morning over the Louisville and Nashville railroad, where the relatives had gone for the pur- pose of identifying the little one.
 Story Leading Up to Resturation
 The story of this remarkable incident leading up to her restoration has already been published in full in the Age-Herald; how, years ago, a handsome lawyer of Chattanooga one Jack Young, became in- fatuated with Miss May Hoyt, the bsauti- full daughter of H. O. Hoyt; how the love became mutual, resulting in a happy mar riage; how as the months went by Young began to drink and carouse; about the darling baby coming to bless their home, and the dissoluteness of Young growing apaee with the months until his conduct became unbearable to his young wife; how she tried to reform and encourage him un- til she was compelled to return to her fathers residence in this city in the year 1891.
 It has been tod how Young came to Bir- min3saan with promises of renewed de- terminatlcns to live better and regard the wife as a devoted woman should be re- garded; how she yielded to these illusCry promises and returned with flim, only to go through similar experiences, and how She came again to her fathers home, being shortly followed by Young, who went to the residence and enticed the child away while the mother was unaware of his presence; o'f the lengthy lawsuits wilich followed for the possession Of the litt.e girl after Young had been traced from this city to Chattanooga, and of his fail ure to produce the little one for delivery to the mother after the coulIs had award ed the keeping of the girl to iler.
 First Giimmer Of Hope
 The story has also been told of the years of search and nervous strain upon the mother and relatives in vain, illusory meanderings over the couELry, urged with a hope that the girl would be recovered. Ali these details have been given; the re- ceipt by Chief of Police Austin last week of a letter from London, Ky, giving mea- ger details of a girl there who claimed to have been kidnapped from Birmingham eight years past, and of the fond hope that Harris, wife of the chief mailing clerk in the postoffice in this city. are all known to the reading public.
 1t was only last Wednesday night that Mr Hoyt and his daughter, Mrs. Harris, left Birmingham for London, hoping to identify the girl as of their blood Their trip was an interesting one; they were to viist land where human blood is shed without apparent compunction of con- science; and right at Chls partlcu- lar time 1t was with am unusual dread When near London MT. Hoyt told his strange, almost fantastic, story to parties and asked for the names of influential men in London in whom 1re could trust They were given, and with fiuutering hearts the gray-haired old man and his daughter. with letters from these parties in whom they had confided, landed in London
 Moments of Suspense
 They told their story to the hotel proprie- tor, to whom they had letter of introduce tion, and he assured them that the child should soon be with them. An! the unex- pressible dread and fmpatience which must have filled the breast of that mother, whose child had been. gone for years; what her hopes, imaginatioEs and fears must have been can scarcely be realized by any but herself while the buggy with MT. Hoyt and the hotel man speeded away to bring the child to her for Identification. She waited, remembering the advice of her husband be- fore leaving home not to be too quick to accept the child as hers until she felt 1t so beyond doubt, and when the child entered the hotel and rushed ito her, throwing its little arms about her neck and crying: '"You are my mamma, aint your" the mother did not give way. The poor, un- kempt child showed the hardships it had undergone during all these years, but the mother was not rash. She talked to the girl of things which she might remember while her mothers intuition silently claim ed it as her for whom she had searched so long.
 Identity Became Established
 As the various incidents of infant age were rehearsed by the mother and daughter the Identification became more and more beyond question, until there now remains not a vestage of doubt in the mothers mind as to the child being her own.
 The girl knew herself as Stella Green, why she does not know. She tells of many