Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-20

IRWIN CRAVEN FOUND.
krn,.pPED NEWPORT NEWS BOT
D1scoyERED NJ HIS MOTHER,
FOUR MEN UNDER ARREST
Suspicion Points VERY strongly te
one of the Four-Much of the Tow
and Surrounding country stirred
UP to Search for the hoy.
FOUR MEN UNDER De ARREST 3!
suspicion Points very strongly I
one of the Four-Much of the Tow

NEWPORT NEWS. VA, September -.
observation-disclosures Irwin craven
who was kidnapped yesterday within loo
feet of his home. was found this after
noon about . o'clock by the boys mo-
Their, Mrs. NJ D. Craven. and MISS Ella
woodrow. a young lady WHO was ac-
companying the mother in her search OF
the woods Just outside of the city. Miss
Woodrow, who is an attractive young
girl was really the first to discover Tue
child, she and Mrs. Craven passing VIII" Will
in two yards Of where Irwin was lying
in obedience to the commands OF the inail
with whom he slept In the grass al nlshs'
and who left him with a nickel to a "a 1>
his return from a barber-shop
The mother and faln.r and 1Au'4oer
Of friends spent the entire MOI ning
searching in the nearby WOODS, "hlle q
score of horsemen secured the country
as far up as N1orrisons, Oriana' Dig
Bethel. Buzzards' Roost, and even in the
vicinity of Yorktown. number OF Crews
were obtained by the men on the search
and while they were hard at work, call
ing at every house they passed TINS az
ternoon, the little boy was sa1e IN hss
mothers arms. Around the boy throat
are, apparently. fiinger-marks, showing
how the kidnapper had subdued the boy
into keeping quiet and obeying his ORDERS.
He also had some fever.
D. "A. Smith, of California. professional
tramp: John Rooney, who claims 20 pc Oh
this city: James Loving, and John RAM
mond, also of this city, are under arrest
in connection with the abduction
Mrs Craven and Mrs. Woodrow went
out together this afternoon to renew the
search for the boy. Strange to say they
went directly to the spot where the BOY
was stretched out in the tall gross. He
heard them coming and thinking probably
his abductor had returned. he raised 4is
head. Miss Woodrow saw him and ut
tered a scream The mother. who was
just six feet away, saw him almost at the
same time, and gathering him up In her
arms. she rushed from the growth 20
the railroad track and as fast as she
could across to their home. Immediately
the news spread, and soon the craven
home was surrounded by the friends OF
the family, who poured in and out OF the
house all the evening anxious to see the
recovered child.
The little boy told his mother that the
man had hurt him and made him sleep
all night in the grass, and this afternoon
gave him cents and told him to re-
main there until he returned. The arrest
of the suspects followed.
John Rooney, more nearly approached
the description Of the man furnished by
w. C. Putnam, a bricklayer, and Fl. Z.
Taylor. a colored helper, who saw the man
who led the boy away from the corner
where the two were seen about o'clock
yesterday. Oliver Moss. colored cattle
tender saw the man who kidnapped the
boy walking along the railroad track
near the place where the child was found
and he will be valuable witness. The
police obtained clues from reliable negroes
three miles above the city and also about
three miles from Morrisons, that man
answering the description sent out was
seen carrying child yesterday afternoon
and last evening.
It is strange coincidence that the
Misses Turner and their brother will
swear that they saw Rooney with the boy
near Morrison's last evening. The POLICE
first thought that the child had not been
taken further away than Fifty-seventh
street, where he was found. If the kid
napper went as far as Morrison's he
made fast time. The boy says he slept
in the tai! grass al! night. Great indigna-
ton prevails among the people over the
outrage.