The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-18
TODDLlNG BABE
LOST IN BRUSH
FOR 40 HOURS
1O-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE MARSH
EXPOSED TO BITING WINDS
FOR TWO NIGHTS.
FOUND BY ONE OF THE SEARCnERS
Had Followed His Mother, Who Had
Left the House to Round Up
Two Horses.
(By Associated Press.)

BOISE, Idaho, June 17.-Tod-
ding along in a wilderness of tower
ing sage brush, his throat parched
with a thirst of 40 hours, his sturdy
little legs torn and bleeding from
briar thorns, the 19 months old
boy baby of Lawrence Marsh, resid-
ing near Caldwell, was found today
alive and prattling to himself after
a search which began with the child s
disappearance on Saturday night and
in which posse of several hundred
men were employed. Exposed to the
biting winds of two frosty nights,
imperilled by prowling coyotes and
badgers, without food or water, the
tiny mite of humanity, with dress be-
spattered with mud, had wandered
seven miles from his home. The
child's escape from death or serious
mishap is regarded as almost in
credible. He was found In the heart
of the sage brush, where the chances
were many that the little form of
the wanderer would be entirely
overlooked.
AS Henry Hawthorne, one of the
searchers, led his horse to where the
boy was standing, the little fellow
man in blue flannel shirt and wide
brimmed hat and then at the horse.
PONY, baby ride pony?" the
youngster questioned with glistened
eyes.
You bet you can, bless your little
old heart" cried Hawthorne. Ten
derly the rough man picked the babe
up in his arms and galloped away to
join the other searchers and convey
the glad news to the terrified parents.
Milk in large quantities had been
carried along by the searchers, many
of whom were today far more ex-
hausted than the 10 months old boy
and the little fellow was given a
great lineup filled to the brim. He
drank it all and then, for probably
the first time since his wanderings
began, he cried for more. The case
of theAboy resembled in many of its
features the recent disappearance of
four year old Horace Marvin in Della
ware, although there is no suggestion
here of Kidnapping and the search
found far happier termination. Mrs.
Marsh started out in the sage brush
Saturday evening just before sun
down to round up two of her hus-
bands horses. Unknown to her the
child followed and was soon swal-
lowed up in the prairie-like country.
Two hours later the search began.
All Saturday night the neighbors of
the Marsh family kept to the fields
and Monday morning their numbers
were augmented by scores of volun-
teers from the city of Caldwell and
Emmett. No trace of the boy was
found until early today, when it
was reported that baby footprints
were seen in the immediate vicinity
of badger hole. Wild stories as to
the child's possible fate under these
circumstances were soon in circula-
ton, but the searchers themselves
were not satisfied. Then came the
report that coyotes may have at
tackled the boy and carried away his
body to their hiding place.
Hawthorne, newcomer In this
section of the country, joined the
searching parties late yesterday and
with a fresh horse this morning he
left the main body of searchers and
cut away into the heart of the sage
brush. 1t was not very long before
he saw what he believed to be the
tiny footprints. He dismounted
and followed the faint trail until be-