Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-09
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that they may have some clue to the
whereabouts Of the child
This uncertainty has had an awful eff
feet on Mrs. Joyner. for the suspense
keeps thought of the child constantly In
her mind and she looks worn and bag
gard. A young mother of the neighbor-
hood watching her baby BOY play before
the fire expressed the exact state OF the
case when she said: IF my child were
like this L. should rather hear positively
that he was dead than to live on in an
agony Of suspense. If he were dead
there could nothing be done. but as long
as there was doubt about his fate would
always be torturing myself with the
thought that I was not doing all could
to find him.
Another Searching Party.
SO. to make Mrs. Joyner feel certain
that the child was not Dead In the woods
near her house. and to strengthen her
in the hope that she will yet be found.
and at the. same time to show their earn
sympathy. almost all the men OF the
neighborhood organized another search
party. which met yesterday BY the time
yellow streak in the west was begin
ming to split the cold pins-tops from the
cold sky. footsteps were ringing down
the frozen road to the rendezvous in
front of the Joyner home. And by the
time that school children were passing by.
with books under. arms and hands in
pockets. to the school-hcuse In the pines,
a large crowd had gathered and were
warming themselves at fire, which they
had made out-of-doors Among the prom
inent gentlemen Of the neighborhood who
were present were Mr.. Joseph Brooks.
Mr.. Ira Chandler, Mr.. S. H. WalthaII,
Mr.. Perkins. Mr.. r. H..8Williams. Mr.
Sterling Parkinson. Mr.. George Slate, Mr..
William Spain. Mr.. William Harmon. Mr.
G. w. Gates, Mr. William Sutherland
and numerous others. Quite number Of
polite and kindly-disposed colored men
also helped. The mother OF the lost child
was not1well enough to see more than
one or two intimate friends. but the
child's grandmother talked freely of when
and how she was last seen. and showed
ringlet OF her golden hair which had
caught In the button of a jacket she used
to wear and which they had unwound
and put away carefully
Fifty Men In the Hunt
About fifty men had assembled by 10
o'clock. and then the hunt started from
the woods which bounds the western
edge Of the Joyner property. The men
were strung out fifteen yards apart, into
line Of about quarter OF a mile In
length, and at the sound of hunting
horn it started out due west. each man
keeping at the same distance from the
men on either side Of him, and looking
carefully about him. They went thus for
something like a mile. and the line then
reformed and began march OF three
miles due east, through pine forest.
Each man could see about five men to
right and five to left, keeping abreast.
of him Ike shadows and appearing and
disa ppearing in and out among the. pines.
M Perhaps the most pathetic feature OF
the search was the fact OF the great child
Ike negro men hunting for another child,
Constantly little touches would show
the child In their ma ture. There was one
very old man. whose face was wrink1ed
and rewrinkled with the wisdom which
CONES with age and sorrow ny tha
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