The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
WANDERING BOY IS
 FOUND AFTER YEARS
Moses Thomas Again At Home
 In Alexander City
NO CAUSE FOR ACTIONS
For More Than Two Years His Father and Mother Have Been AdVer- Using In Southern Papers to
 Locate Him.

Alexander City, October 10-(Special)- Moses Thomas, the son of MT. and Mrs. George Thomas of this city, Sho left his home in this town in March of 1907, and who has been given up by many as long since dead. has been found and an- other mothers heart made glad.
 Early in March, 1907, this lad of 1S sum- mers. went away from home one evening without one word of warning or un- pleasant family relations as cause of his act. He was last seen riding out one evening horseback, which was his usual custom, on the large gray horse which his father had presented him and which he called his own. That night at the family circle, search began to be made for fear he had met violence from the horse. No trace for days and weeks could be had of him or the animal, and many newspapers carried calls for his identity for many weeks without word of hope.
 Something like a month and a half after his departure lady near Williams port, Tenn, on seeing the story of the
 
 that boy and horse of the description given had been in their vicinity for some weeks. The father went on the first train to the place and there found the horse, but the boy had gone. After paying the gentleman for his trouble. he sold the horse which he found badly jaded, to the gentleman at Williamsport.
 The last seen of the boy there at Will Transport he is said to have obtained permission of another gentleman to use his rowboat to go down the Duck river to the Tennessee river. He rode to the river landing on his horse. hitched him to one of the piers of the bridge, and was never heard from again.
 It was believed that he was drowned in the river A few weeks after this a dead boys body was found badly decom posed in the river bottoms of the Ten nessee river above Guntersvlle, where he had evidently drowned and the waters receded and left it bare. After the body had been taken up and buried for some days Mrs. Thomas happened to see in a back number of some daily the finding of the body and went immediately, be- leving her boy had gotten out into the Tennessee river from the mouth of Duck and was on his way to Decatur, near which point, at Athens, he had rela- lives. She had the lone grave which was located in the dark swamps of the Ten nessee river opened, and the body was examined to her satisfaction and she finally decided by the teeth that it was not her boy and returned home in sad de- spondence.
 With a tact and study of her boys character from childhood, she finally de- cided that if the boy was living he was trying to hide himself In the remote farming section somewhere in the south. She thereupon had an ad put In some farming bulletin which reaches the farm. CTS in the remote country precincts and recently gentleman who resides at Cuba Landing, on the Tennessee river, in Tennessee wrote her that her boy, as described in the ad. had been with him ever since March. 1907. The mother did not wait to write. but took the first outgoing train for Tennessee. On reach ing Wayery Tenn. she had to go about % miles through the country to reach her destination. On arriving there she found the boy who had been given up for dead hale and doing well, and they are now in Birmingham en route to, Alexander City. and looked for on. incoming train. No trace or explanation of why the boy left the home of his parents in such hidden and mysterious way is get given. and none, probably, will he riaidlV demanded