The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-20
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION
 CHAMBERS FAMILY CALLS
 CLAIRVOYANT INTO SEARCH
Mother Calls Little Ones About Her and Teaches Them to
 Pray For Lost Brother State Militia Plans Big Organized Search Through Woods All Freight Cars Unsealed SeereSs Promises the Lost Boys Will be Discovered in Pile of Lumber Before Next
 Sunday


 Lumber Before Next
 Sunday
 Desperate at the protracted absence of their children, and willing like drowning man to grasp at every straw of hope. the Chambers family today enlisted the help of clairvoyants in the search for their lost child. A start ling statement was secured.
 "The children are not far from where they were last seen.' said the seeress. They were iured away by a larger person, one of unsound mind. They went against their will. They will be found before Sunday They are sur rounded by lumber"
 Whether living or dead. the clair voyant could not say. She said they were north of where they were last eeen but not fer. The parents. eager to hnd something new to work upon. arranged for search of the wards or the Frank Miller Lumber Co. this aft ernoon.
 Owing to Mrs. Chambers highly wrought condition she was not able to leave the house when early this morn ling the extremity of consulting clair
 
 anxious mother called upon Blanche ]. Barnard, in Main street. at Waller Place. and spent some time with her.
 when she left the house with the. ;strange prediction, she could scarceiy fwait to reach the William street home to impart the tidings to the waiting tfamily Several of the family and tGk1euds hurried to No. engine house land told the firemen comrades of the tfather of the ciatrvoyant's story. \ r,or, ,6rv, v,aa ar<v- v.cY1 tshackle structures in the vicinity of iGOld and Middle streets. in back yards. tThese were promptly visited, the fire tu1an taking scaling ladders to attain the more remote portions Of the build l1ros, where the children could have been taken had thess been forced into the dark back yards late Sunday kniEht-
 ! The visit to the clairvoyant was made by Mrs. Lewis Fenton. She is \ had been active in the search for her little nephew since Sunday night. tFears for the welfare of MT. and Mrs. Chambers have led their relatives to plead with them to take rest. Neither | can sleep. Today Mrs. Chambers phy- : sician, Dr. Healy, gave her sleep ing potion, hoping the rest might pre- vent her from becoming a complete nervous wreck. Its no use trying ! to sleep she cried. If they don't find my boy. my husband and I will soon be corpSes.
 Visitors at the Chambers house late last night witnessed spectacle that brought tears to their eyes. The moth CTS, her face drawn and blanched from lack of sleep and from worry, called the three little children left to her. together as they were about to go to bed. She made them kneel down with her, and pray God to restore lit tie Frederick to the family circle. She < told them they must learn to pray for their lost little brother every night and morning.
 Fireman Arthur Chambers who has not been out of his clothes for the past 120 hours, and who has snatched only a few dozes in that time while searching for his lost son, Frederick and little Joseph McMahon, asked the Farmer this morning if it would sug- gest to everyone that they search their own premises and their own neighborhoods as far as possible. He thinks that this would go long ways toward settling the question as to whether the boys are in Bridgeport dead or alive.
 Mrs Joseph McMahon. mother of the other boy received a letter today from her husband. who is experimenting bridge building job at Marblehead, Mass. They have been in communi- cation by telegraph and mail since the
  advised Mrs McMahon to bear up un- der the loss. and said if it was Gods wiH that the little one should be taken from them, they must bow humbly in submission
 Every few minutes throughout last evening, and beginning again bright and early this morning. police head quarters was called by telephone in fnQuiry for the lost boys Last night et was reported, and today the story
 fIr1n, or1,r nj boys bodies had been found mangled to pieces in the woods beyond Boards ley Park This story originated with the discovery of boys cap near Beerdsley Park which was found not to be the property of the McMahon boy. The Chambers boy wore a straw hat.
 Mrs. Chambers places considerable dependence upon the story told her on Sunday night by little Eddie Allen, young Allen on the Stratford avenue bridge Sunday night. and asked him if he had seen her boy. You mean viola's brother he said, without a moments hesitation Viola is an old CT sister of the lost Freddy. 'I saw him and Joe McMahon walking over the bridge tonight" said he. Taking hope that she would overtake them she hurried on, and walked as far as Yellow Mill bridge before she decided 1t was useless to try to find them at that hour. It was then nearly II.
 Today a fleeting hope was extend ed to the family when word was brought that a tea peddler had en- countered a woman in the country north of here who said she had taken two children in on Tuesday night The story was so magnifed when it reach ed the Chambers home that the con .versation between the boys and wom- Ian was in their possession. The wom- Ian was supposed to have taken the Eboys in Tuesday, kept them over night land after giving them breakfast and lassuring herself that they knew their way home, let them go.
 When this story was run down, it was found that the tea peddler had told one of his patrons he had heard among other stories that the children might be lost in the country. p>7tdnued on F~&e 2)