The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-27
STOLEN BOY, LOST
FOUR YEARS., HOME
Frank Rogers Returns to Parents
Denies He Has Been with
Miss Ely.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
Chicago, March 27-Lost nearly four
years, while his heart broken parents
and sorrowing relatives mourned him
as dead, Frank Ely Rogers, the Evans
ton boy kidnapped July 10, 1901, has
returned home.
The whereabouts Of his aunt, Miss
Florence Ely, whose strange attach
ment for the boy induced her to steal
him away from his parents and home,
still remain as deep a mystery as it was
The boy, who evidently was not will.
ing to speak Of Miss Ely, denied that
he knows where his aunt u.s. and SAYS
he has not been with her. He declared
she had not induced him to run away.
a His Mothers Embraces.
When the boys mother was led into
the room where he was she threw her
arms around his neck and nearly
smothered him with her tears and en-
braces. With mothers instinct, her
fears returned that he again might be
taken from her, and her first question
was:
"Where is your aunt9'
"Mother, do not KNOW answered
Ragged, detected and weary, Frank
Rogers appearance was in marked con-
trast with that Of the happy, smiling
13-year-old boy who disappeared nearly
| four years ago.
The meeting Of the mother with her
long-lost boy was pathetic. She had
ceased to hope to again see him on
earth. --,4.. ~.
Not for moment did the mother
take her eyes from the boy. There
was no Gliding, no upbraiding for the
pain and anguish he had caused her to
suffer for four years. ALI that was
forgotten in the joy Of his being found
again.
Little by little she learned Of his
wanderings around the world.
Waiter In New York.
He had recently been in New York
city working as a waiter in restau.
rant, he told her. Then he was in Buf-
falo, and said he had come from that
city on freight trains, stealing rides
as best he could. He was hungry and
penniless when he reached Evanston
and glad to be home again.
DR.. c. F. Ely, uncle of the boy. and
q brother Of the aunt who is believed
to have kidnapped him, was not sat
isfed with the explanation by young
Rogers concerning Miss Ely. He be-
lieves she has been with the boy and
is somewhere in the neighborhood, and
tomorrow will begin systematic
search for Miss Ely He is confident
she will be found in the vicinity Of
Chicago, as her strange affection fo1
the boy is we'll understood, and he1
relatives do not believe she can stay
away from him long.
Pet Of His Aunt.
When he disappeared from his HON,
in July, 1901, Miss Ely, who had livet
at the house of young Rogers parents
also disappeared, since which time n,
!; trace of either the boy or the woman
had been found until he suddenly an
| peared in Evanston.
|, The boy had been the pet of his aun
ever since he was a baby. So clos
was this friendship that Miss Ely coul,
scarcely allow the boy out of her sight
Her affection was returned by yo1n,
Rogers, and in order to break up thu
attachment between the two, Mrs. Roc
ers decided to send her. son away &
school, and notified Miss Ely of th
plan. On July Is, 1901, the bow an,
his aunt left the Rogers home. presum
ably for a walk. They did not return
and what has become Of Miss Ely j
still mystery.