The San Francisco call., 1906-06-09
FARR|S MYSTERY
GROWING DEEPER
Identity of Boy Left on
Train Is Not Yet
Settled.
Seattle Man Believes
Child Is His Kid
naped Son.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SEDALIA No, June S-Wnlie Far
ris, the 5-year- old New York City boy
who was sent from San Antonio. Texas,
in the care of Pullman conductor to
Bonneville. Mo, and whose identity has
been until today surrounded in mys-
terry is now in charge of n. ]. Finney,
division superintendent of the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas Railway, at the lat
ter's home in this city Superintendent
Finney received a telegram today from
a detective bureau of New York City
saying:
Willie Farris' aunt is here. Put
him on the train and send to u.s.
superintendent Finney replied:
Il have possession of the boy and
have reason TO believe that he has been
lost on purpose and will only surren-
der him on satisfactory evidence that
the party claiming the boy is legally
entitled to take charge of HIM"
superintendent Finney received a
telegram this evening from Richard c..
Baker Of Seattle. Wash, stating that
his 3-year-old son was kidnapped from
him two years ago. Willie Farris
closely resembles the description of the
missing Baker child and may be the
missing Seattle boy.
The mystery surrounding Willie Far
ris seems TO increase. 1t is not under
stood here why the boys aunt in New
\ Ork ShoUt0 remain IN the DdChEiouuu
and conduct negotiations for the re-
turn of the child through a detective
agency. The man who placed the boy
on the train at San Antonio cannot be
located and il is almost certain he has
gone TO the City of Mexico, which place
the boy saws he visited with his father
after leaving his aunt in New York
NEW YORK, June S.-Willie Farris
the 5-year- old boy who was left at
-, I oe-
supposed to have been kidnapped from
New York is the nephew of Mrs. Far
ris of Staten Island, according to in
forma ton which Mrs Farris gave to
the police of this city today. She did
not explain to the police when or how
the boy left New York or why he
should have been sent to Bonneville.
The child was left in the care of the
station master at Bonneville by a rail-
road conductor. in whose care he had
been placed, to be put off at Bonneville
to meet relatives who could not be
found.
Later Mrs Lizzie Farris said she was
the Aunt Lizzie of whom the child told
the authorities at Bonneville. The boy,
she said, is her nephew from Ireland.
who had been living with Mrs. Farris
daughter and her husband at Durango,
Mexico She will provide for his re-
turn to New York
BONNEVILLE, Mo, June S.-InfOr
nation has been received here that two
brothers running as engineers out of
Torreon. Mexico, Peter and Terry Far
ris. are relatives of Willie Farris and
that another brother. James Farris. an
engineer. was killed in Mexico three
or four years ago. leaving a widow and
an infant son, who would now be about
years old. Mrs. Farris married again
at San Antonio, Texas. and later moved
to New York City. A fourth brother.
]. c. Farris is at Rockport, Mo. 1t is
thought probable that little Willie was
sent from San Antonio to Bonneville to
J. c. Farris, who cannot now be To-
Gated.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. June S.-The
mystery surrounding the 5-year-old
boy placed on the train at San Antonio
Saturday night and sent to Bonneville,
No, promises to be soon cleared up.
The boys name is Willie Farris Car
stem, and his father lives in Torreon,
Mexico. Pullman Conductor Mckinney
says he is certain it was the boys
father who put him on the train at
San Antonio, for when he placed him
in the care of the conductor he kissed
the boy good-by very tenderly, and the
lad called the man papa. The con-
ductor says there is no secrecy about
the matter.