The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-04
ANOTHER CLUE RUN DOWN
The Glen Echo Boy Proves to Be a
Resident of the Vicinity.
Had Been Fishing All Day and
Begged for Food-Police Tired of
Chasing Rumors-The Reward for
the Mccormick Boy StiII Stands.

/ The boy who was begging in the vicin-
ity of Glen Echo Thursday afternoon, and
! who, it was thought. might be the miss
| ing Willie Mccormick, has proved TO be
one of the residents of the vicinity and
another supposed clue 10 the whereabouts
of the missing High Bridge boy has been
exploded.
The boy found at Glen Echo, it appears,
had been fishing, and, being hungry, and
his home about two miles up the road. he
stopped at the house OF Mr.. Wade, and
| asked for something to eat Mr.. Wade is
the general manager at Glen Echo, and
lives in one of the cottages at the resort.
His wife was alone in the house at the
time the lad called. and as he was dress
ed in rather better clothing than the gen
eral run of country boys, and as Mrs.
Wade had never seen him before, she
spoke TO Constable Kennedy Of the mat
ter He at once telephoned to the city that
a strange boy had been seen at the re-
sort and that he might be Willie Nc
Cornlick
When Mr.. Wade returned to the house
Thursday afternoon and told his wife of
the Suspicious of the constable, she was
quite surprised. When reporter called
at her house yesterday she described the
boy as being about fourteen or fifteen
years old. with light hair and fair COM
pexion. Willie Mccormick is only ten
years old, and Mrs. Wade was quite sure
that the boy she had seen was several
years older than that.
Michael G. Mccormick. the uncle of the
missing boy. was an early caller at Glen
Echo yesterday. He said that he did not
believe that there was one chance in a
million that the boy seen at the Glen was
his nephew, but that he did not propose
TO overlook even such an unprOmising
clue
My offer of 5000 for the return of the
boy still holds good, he remarked, and
/ do not doubt that anyone who shall
be instrumental in the return of the lad
will be literally rewarded by all of those
who have offered large sums of money
for his return. even though these offers
have been temporarily Withdrawn
After Mr. Mccormick departure the
search for the boy who had been the
cause of his visit was resumed. 1t was
found that he had been seen, in company
with another boy of about his own age,
about dusk Thursday evening on the Con-
duit Road, near Glen Echo Junction, by
Mrs. Boswell and her daughter From
description furnished by Mrs. Boswell one
OF the boys, VINO gave the name OF Ernest
Davis, was found near the river bank.
who told the reporter that his companion
was Jennings Smith, who lives just above
the Cabin John postofice He then went
on to explain that he, in company with
Smith, had been fishing Thursday and,
being rather hungry, the Smith boy had
volunteered 10 forage for the two. After
a short absence he returned with a piece
of a sandwich and said that he had Sc
cured it at cottage in the Glen.
George e. Wade stated last night that
he was satisfied, from what his wife had
said, that the boy was resident of the
vicinity and that there was no foundation
for the suspicion that Willie Mccormick
might be in that locality. Inspector
Roardman is of the same opinion and
says that il is only a waste of time in
sending his men off on such wild goose
chases. He believes that many false
clues are likely to be heard from during
the next few weeks, but is confident that
the boy is not in the vicinity of Washing
ton.