The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-02-16
RICHMOND BYERS
A MYSTERY Still
Thought To Have Been Located Near
CrIlienden Springs, but Again
Is Father Disappointed.

Word was received here Friday that
Il was thought the lost boy. Rich
mond Byers. who was stolen from his
fathers home at Seeleyville, Ind, on
May %. 1904, was thought TO be located
at the Minner farmhouse near Critten-
den Springs, but II proved not to be
the little son Of DR.. Byers, and once
more doomed to disappointment. the
father resumes the tireless search for
his lost boy.
Learning that a little child had been
east of Of boat at Tolu and left on the
river bank two or three months .go
and was being cared for at the Minner
place, Messrs. Piekens and Clark went
out 10 investigate and upon comparing
the child with the description Of the
lost one, which tailed exactly. with the
exception Of the little nick in the ear
which could not be found, they re-
turned to the city and telephoned DR..
Byers who arrived on the 7:40 train
Friday evening. Early Saturday morn
ing he went out to see the child who
was very much like, yet not his own.
Again disappointed, he returned to
the city and caught the li:l5 train
southwark bound for Arkansas where
he goes to see another child answering
the description Of the lost boy.
This is the thirty-cighth boy he has
gone TO expecting to find his little one.
and through the slS7l22, the Richmond
Byers fund. raised by popular subscrip-
ton through the columns Of the Evans
willie Courier. they are enabled to go on
with the search.
Both DR.. and Mrs. Byers are very
much encouraged at the evidences Of
sympathy shown by the public In gen
eral, and they are very hopeful that
they will yet find their little son.
Though the brunt Of the search has
fallen on DR. Bycrs, though he had sown
his money and his savings Of years "a
the four winds In the hunt for the boy
and was s225 in debt by the time the
Richmond Bycrs fund was delivered tc
him. his wife is the heroine Of the sad
story of Richmond Bycrs.
Frustrated at hrst. unable TO leave
her bed for days. hcart.brokcn ant
living In constant fear that her baby
boy Is being misuscd. she has by sheer
force Of will gathered her strength
and kept the home together while her
husband has gone out into the world tC
look for the boy.
when she saw that the family saw.
ings had been used up and when sh,
saw that her husbands practice as 4
physician was falling oil because h,
was seldom at home 10 visit h,
patients and often in too nervous .
state to be trusted with an -cNtrcm,
case when at home, she threw herself
into the breach. Telling her life part
ncr To 20 on with the search anC
breathing words Of hope and eonsola
ton into his ears when he sccmeC
downcast and apparently on the verge
Of giving up hope, she opened a board
INK house.
From the money she has made By
keeping boardcrs she has kept the 81,
other children in school. kept the roo
over their heads and has often supple,
money to help buy railroad tickets fol
her husband. She has decided tha
until they are both dead. she and he
husband must keep up the search an,
unless success crowns their efforts the.
must 70 on and on. praying and search
Ing until they are called away.