The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-14

till daylight. So the man said to him:
Come with me and 1 viii be good TO
you, as 1 need good, smart little boy"
Somewhat in fear Victor went with the
man until they came 10 a fashionable
district. Then the man frightened Victor
by ordering him TO climb through the
transom over door and uniocx the door
from the inside. telling Victor re lived
there and had lost his kay ana been
locked out
February IL 1896.
To satisfy victor's craving for making
money and to try to keep him from run
ming away, victor's father has set him
up in the laundry business. Ny boy is
delighted with the business. and l hope
we will have found something that viii
keep him at home. His name is posted
up on the wall of the laundry, and he is
very proud Of it. His father says he is
little hustler" and he has made the
business pay already, though it has only
been running a week He is never so hap
py as when collecting and delivering
laundry packages and when talking to
his customers.
February u, 1886.
All our hopes about Victor's staying at
home have come to nothing. Today he be-
came provoked because his father. not
fully trusting him sent man with him
when delivering packages and making col
lections, and ran away again. His poor
mother is almost broken hearted new.
February Is. 1896
1 have my poor boy at home again.
But he is so thin and worn looking with
staying out these cold winter nights that
he doesn't look like my healthy looking
son at all His father found him at 2
o'clock this morning in And street car
in New York. He was sitting in a corner
asleep. II was one Of the coolest nights
of the winter. How he kept from freez-
ing don't know for he says he had been
riding all night long on street cars in
New York, getting transfers rom one
line to another on cross town cars. His
father had suspected that he was in New
York, and been out all night looking for
him.
May q. 1885,
How can people say that my son is
such a bad boy because he runs away? !
When he was brought home to me yes
terday he told me the church he went TO /
last Sunday and said he prayed 10 the |
Lord to take good care of his dear ma !
ma. He told me some of the things the |
minister said. He seems to be so fond !
of going to church 1 know he can't be /
entirely bad. 1t is just his desire to make /
money and get to be a rich man that /
leads him into all this trouble and makes
it so hard for his poor mother.
September II, 1897.
After three months of the most ter
rible suspense we have at last found
where Victor is. He was kidnapped and
taken away out West. After we had |
haired detectives to hunt him and sent
his pictures to all parts of the country,
the news comes that he is now at FL Do
RADIO, Kansas. He is called THE Little
Cattle King out there because he has
been Adopted by one of the richest cat
tie men in the county, who wanted to
make a cattleman of Victor and sometime
give him all his property. They say he
is a regular little cowboy already. Oh,
to think of the dangers he has been
through in this his longest absence from
home.
The man who stole him in New York
got frightened and turned him over to
the Children's Society, under a wrong /
name, and they thinking him a homeless
waif, sent him West with some other boys
to be adopted by Kansas farmers.
January 8, 1900.
Oh, this is the most terrible ordeal of
ali that I have undergone TO-DAY in the
search for my runaway boy. This morn
ing after months of sleepless anxiety my
husband and I were almost driven to dis
traction by policeman coming to the
house and telling us they had found Vic
tor and that the poor boy was lying dead
at the morgue. having been picked up
floating in the water at one of the piers.
I should have fallen to the floor with
the shock had not my husband caught me-
He assured me that he did not think 1t
was our boy, as he was too careful to be
drowned, and that it was most likely a
mistake. So it proved to be. But the ag-
ony of that trip to the Morgue, and a
awful apprehensions can new
er tell in words.
MRS. BELLE LAUGHNAN.
1929 De Kalb avenue Brooklyn, n. Y.