The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-04-05
POND IS DRAINED
AND BODY FOUND
THEORY OF KIDNAPPING OF TEN
YEAR OLD BOY Is THUS
EXPLODED. ~
PREDICTION OF MEDIUM
As TO Location of Body and Its Con-
dtion Borne out--Father Was
Lured 10 Wisconsin by
Fare Ahductor.

Flint, Mich, April 1.-The bods of
Harold Moon, aged 10 years. sen of
fMr. and Mrs Luman Neon, Of this
icity, was found in Threat gond this
imorning, thus putting an end to a
! Tys cry which has aeitated net on
! Michigan, but the whole country FIR
nearly five weeks
Many persons believed III lad had
been kidnapped and saarcl had b ea
made for him i'll many cities. Ills
father Is even now III Deiavaa a
small Wisconsin town, lured thther
by letter from Chicago-tho scheme
Of some person to rob the sorrow ng
man ot $500, for the father left with
the money belcre his sons body was
found
Thread Pond, where the body was
located, is about 80 rods in area, AMI
is used by icemen for their annual
harvest
On the shore of Thread Pond d.
rectly opposite the hole where the
body was found, stands the laree
white house OF Michael Gillespie.
which was minuetely described lH
Mrs. Royal II Ainsworth, a Pert Iiu-
ron medium Mrs. Ainsworth e.ai Sc
20 have seen the body of the bey il
the bottom Of tho pend waea III d.
trance.
It is also regarded as re aerkable
that tho body was caught anl held
by the weeds, thus bearing out the
woman's statement as to tie coudi-
tions,
She said he was held down by his
skates.
Disappeared in February.
Harold Moon disappeared Fcbrrary
a. He Yas last saGn gaiaG LOW ard
he river and the pond, but stories
became current that strange man
had been seen leading him away. Re.
wards aggregating $1,000 had been
offered.
For the past FIVE weeks a gang of
20 men, under the direction cf the
police, was engaged IN the search of
Flint river and other bodies OF water
surrounding the city The dragging
If the river was continued t. Mon
rose r. miles down stream.
As a last resort the officers decided
10 drain the water from Thraal Pond.
Yesterday morning the men placed
barbed wire across the chutes which
control tho water In the pond. This
the chutes were ope1eI and
the water allowed TO flow out The
body was found about 100 ct from
the shore of the pond with the feet
and legs tangled In the weeds on tie
bottom, exactly as described by the
Port Huron medium over month
ago.
The boys skates were stiIl strap
ped 10 bis feet. so il is believed that
when he was skating the ice broke
plunging him into the icy water
Mrs Moon says that yesterday she
received letter from her husband,
in which he said that he had arrived
safely in Chicago. whore he intended
TO consult with the Piukertou Detac-
tive Agency in relation to his sons
disappearance. Moons concluding
paragraph in his letter was:
"If they have Harold aud viii have
aim write me a note in his own han T.
writing ! win nut tle money where
they want me to-"
Said He Had the Bov.
Moon received a letter at his home
here a fcw days ago from Delayau.
Wis, in which the writer said that
he had the lost boy In his pcsse ession
aud that the father could recover lin
by going to Dglayan and dcposi'iny
$500 in the mouth of cannon in the
city park. -
Subsequent development show
the scheme was arranged by a person
who had read the details cf the sil-
uaping Of Willie Whitla, Of Sharn.
and that he sought merely to cxtort
easy money" from frantic fa'tor.