The Detroit times., 1909-12-09
|fiM OF MOTHER
lads TO E|Ng|NG
s0A IN GRAVE
IeaSa- Him Cry and Sees Him Lying
on -pIodnd, -Motionless-lnquiry
Shows He Was Buried In Pot
'ter's Field After Accident.
Dody. Of Boy. Long Missing, viii Be
Removed From Nameless Grave
and Given Proper Burial.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. - hFousI.
y vision which came TO a distracted
nctfIer as she slept, the idenuty ol
she f5year-old boy who was killed 10y
- street car on the Southweste'n
hallway on the night OF last Memoir
al Day has been established.
Theology was Robert Adams VINO
Mad sieft his home at 80 tat-te-sF
LIE insion. two weeks before MS
HAeath..- 10 make his own Twins.
XHe was run over while lying between
Ethe rails OF the car track, apparently
The body Was brought I"
ffhis city and on energetic search WAS
*made 10 find out who he was
& Atrast. when all likelihood OF os-
his idenrity seemed past
<he was buried i'm potters field
II is- a peculiar feature of the case
THAT fef several months The detectives
3of ths. city have been searching for
III traaa OF the youth. His father triSt.
Ees cry means in his power TO hnd
where his son had gone. But FOR the
tdfcam or vision, Roberts fate would
always have remained mystery.
\ Now the body is 10 be removed
from us nameless grave and viii be
<bUried~ in Mount Moriah cemetery.
4 Perhaps. il Robert had not ltft
khomeybefore. an earlier search would
have been begun for him. bui twice
The had gone away. each time return
ling with gifts for the folks at home.
1 One of these. was little piece OF
|giassYare. which he gave 10 his moth
len. And so, when he gaily announc"i
ono afternoon as he ran past the
house That he was going out 10 make
some money 10 help poi" the mother
was the only one Who worried
coincidence Is Shattered.
The~father eyed that n Ouly
woulds~be a la eeks until the boy
|woulc-turn up a-,,in He-advised the
mother TO be calm ana patient and not
Ito worgy, assuring her what he him
n elf thought that the boy had mere
Nv tired Of home restraint for while.
and would soon come 10 take up his
customary life.
N But as the months passed and
Robert did not come back. tho faith
Iof ths~ mother began TO wane Her
nights were sleepless with though
OF her boy Always her husband
calmexf her
-Just wait until the cold weather
mother he said Hell De sial 10
|Come-then"
IL was not until along in midsummer
that he began 10 be worried, and then
81. was. more for his wife than Tor
/. his boy. The boy was strong and
well able To look after himself, he
Reasoned but the weight OF grief and
worry was telling on the mother
And 80. one day. he went TO City
hall and gave description ri tre
boy. and the police in- all parts of
The CRY were notified TO took for him.
AT ~ time the body was in the
potter's field and az the accident on
the Southwestern railway AaI--oc-
Cured -lons.- .heiors.-it-bad-h eea--for-
gotten
Eondes SmsIl Present
There followed other weary days
OF waiting. The mothers IVORY IN
creased. The only comfort she had
was in fondling the pretty piece Cf'
glass which her boy had brought from
one OF his FORMER wanderings SIN
the father urged her to wait uHrfi'
cold weather~~but her fears Wee
too great now-to be allayed
II was iu-the middle OF the night
that the vision came. She went 10 bed
thinking Of her boy and finally drop
\ ped asleep. Then she saw, or Thought
she saw, her boy in great danger.
Just what threatened she could nct
B determine. but she heard him cry ont
and then saw him lying pale on the
\ ground. motiUnicss Then she awal-
ened and for the rest OF the nigh
sobbed 10 herself.
This morning she. told her husjan