Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-06
Husband of Ottumwa Woman
Took Them From Her While
I'LL, Nine Years Ago
PLACED in ORPHANS HOME
Subsequently Both Children. a Boy and
a Girl, Were Bound Out to Different
Families-eirrs Efforts to Find Her
Mother Are successful-son is Now
Seriously III.
Special TO Times-Republican.

Special TO Times Republican,.
Waterloo Jan. ALTERNATING be-
tween hope and despair for over nine
years. fearing that her two children
were dead and yet hopeful that they
might be living somewhere. Mrs. j. T..
rejoiced TO learn that the little three
year-old boy and the little four-year-
old girl. who We're taken from her by
her husband and placed in an orphans
home While she was unconscious and
lay near death, struggling against al,
attack OF typhoid fever. have been
found and that the past nine years.
which have seemed more like n hideous
nightmare than anything else. are now
being Illuminated by the comfort which
she finds in the presence of her chill
dren.
But even now the clouds are lowering
over her and last night she sat mourn
full and broken hearted while watch
ing over the pickering flame of the
life of her son.
The story of Mrs. Logan, she is now
but 80 years old, is one into which little
sunshine has come. According to the
story told by Mrs. Logan, about ten
years ago, while she was suffering from
a severe attack of typhoid fever a.
Eldon. Iowa, her husband whose NAM
was Hayes-she having been married
twice-took the children, aged respec-
lively three and four years, and hurried
them off to the ChiIdren's Home at
Davenport. There had then been an
estrangement between husband ana
wife and divorce was pending.
as the grip of the fever gradually re
leased and the healthy mind resumed
its activity. Mrs. Logan began TO in
quire for little Effie and little johnny
1t appears that the husband would not
give any definite information as 20
what had become of the children and ii
was a long time-months had length
ened into years, and years had piled
upon each other, until the whereabouts
OF both were discovered.
Children Bound Out.
The little girl, Etfie. who was the
elder of the two children, being past
four when she was taken from her
mother. was bound out to family Of
tuC iidhit VI OliA AOads IitAi6 itai III
agonal. Iowa. The little boy Johnny.
three years old when This mother was
so sick. was put into one home ana
then Into another until he was finally
( .dopted by Mr. and Mrs. S. b. Bick-
ley. then living in Orange township.
That was about ten years ago. The
surname of the children was Hayes
Efiie Hayes and Johnny Hayes-it APP
pears that one family who adopted thu:
children. changed the name to that Of
their own. Mr.. and Mrs. Buckley
thought that some day the boys mother
might be found or his father might be
located and the boy might be restored
to them and in such an event 1t would
be very grfevous to have the child
bear q different name from that borne
by the parents.
AS soon as she was old enough shs
began to think about means of determ-
ming whether her mother was living
or not. When she was twelve years of
age she wrote letter to the chief
OF police at Eldon. and secured an an
swer that her mother was living AMI
was then In Ottumwa. Altho she was
closely watched. the daughter managed
to mail letter to the mother direct
and that was the first message that
the mother had that the daughter was
alive.
Taken to California.
Mrs. Logan says that as soon as the
foster parents OF Efiie learned that the
mother knew where she was they Inn
,mediately laid plans to take the girl to
some other locality. They according
ly moved to California and the mother
was obliged to travel over three thous-
and miles and the stepfather to spend
over three hundred dollars in order TO
recover the daughter. Mrs. Logan left
at once for California, and locating her
daughter, brought her home with her.
Al