The Washington times., 1906-11-08
CHILD DISAPPEARS.
MYSTERY ABSOLUTE
Drops Down in Woods to
Rest and Is Never Seen
Again.
SEARCH MADE FOR WEEKS
Case a Parallel to Disappearance of
Willie Dickinson Twenty
five Years Ago.

NEW YORK. Nov. S-The mystery OF
the disappearance of the three-year-old
son of John Karvela. living at the Al
louez location. in Houston county. Mich,
is still uns0lved The child has van
ished as If in thin air Not a trace of
The remains Of the little one-if dead
has been found noT-if perchance the
youngster is living-is there a clue to
his whereabouts. The parents weeks
ago practically abandoned hope of ever
seeing the child again.
II was on July 81 that the boy dis
appeared. With others he had started
along a road leading through a thick
woods. happy in the thought of soon
meeting his father, returning from work.
Becoming tired he sat down beside the
road, while the others went on, ad-
monishing the boy to remain where he
was. II was not great while later that
the father was met. but on the arrival
or the party at the spot where the
child had stopped he was not seen,
Many Suspect Kidnapers.
The fate OF the child doubtless viii
never be satisfactorily explained. The
kidnapping theory has the greatest num-
Der OF believers. as being the most
plausible. II is not thought he wander
ed on and died in the woods for the
territory for miles around was secured
time and again by hundreds of men
without the slightest success.
The unsolved mystery of the fate of
this AllOueZ yOungster recalls q SINH
lar disappearance twenty-five years ago
on the Mencminee iron range. 1t was
as IL he had been swallowed by the
earth that Willie Dickinson dropped
from sight November I, 1881. He was
the son Of Capt. William +. Dickinson.
superintendent of the commonwealth
Iron COmpany's mines. He was six
years old, and was attending the Com
monwealth village school, about a mile
from his home, which was at the NINE.
between which and the town itself vas
a lonely stretch.
Indians Employed in Hunt.
When the younger children were dis
missed in the afternoon young Dick
inson started for home, and was last
seen by the mine doctor as the latter
rode by on horseback. This was at the
bend IN the road, about equidistant from
the schoolhouse and the Dickinson resi-
dence.
The younger failed to appear at the
mining location, and upon the arrival OF
the older children, AT a late hour. the
mother became alarmed and a search
was instituted. band of 100 or more
Indians We're employed and there was
not a loot of ground for miles around
that was not examined, while every old
test Dit was thoroughly explored
II was strong belief almost from the
start, however, that the boy had been
kidnapped, and the mother. who now
lives in Milwaukee, has continued stead f.
ily in that theory. a few months pre-
vious TO his disappearance Captain
Dickinson broke up disreputabie joint
On the company's land at the outskirts
OF the village, and iJ is said the men
threatened to get even with him.
Search Kept Up twenty-five Years.
Mrs. Dickinson has met with many adj
ventures in her search of a quarter Of a
century for her missing son. She has
visited nearly every State in the Union,
following false clues, and has been sys-
tematically robbed by designing scoun-
drels who have worked upon her SYM
pathies She has personally seen dozens (
of boys who We're kidnapped from their
homes, and while none was her son she +!
has aided many Of them TO better their /
condition in life.
She has a trunkful OF the stories of 4
other boys who were kidnapped, and has I
been instrumental in restoring TO their
parents several children who had been
abducted. But her own son, who, IL
now living, would be thirty -One years of /
age. has completely dropped from sight. /