The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-19
She Is Convinced that Her Son and Joe McMahon Are Alive and Will Be Found Diver ScourS Harbor Bottom In Neighborhood of Con
 gress Street Bridge Police Will Promptly Follow Any Helpful Clue Re-
 ported to Them

ported to Them
 Completely baffled at every turn, almost convinced that the missing lads are dead, yet unwilling to aban- don their task so long as a vestige of hope remains, the police are to- day at a standstill in their search for the lost Chambers and McMahon youngsters, who vanished Sunday night.
 Today Mrs. Chambers has sent to the public, through the Farmer, a touching appeal to all to help her find her lost boy, her little Sunshine. The paper on which the letter is written in her trembling hand is plotted with a mothers tears. She asks all to cooperate, and prays Gods blessing upon those who have already done so much towards fur thering the search.
 Every citizen on gaining any in- formation should at once notify po- lice headquarters, or one of the pre- cinct stations of the slightest possible clue. The entire police department is ready to go to work on any theory no matter how improbable it may seem.
 Today several vacant houses were searched in pursuit of the theory that the children may have wandered into an abandoned place, and have been closed in by a door they cannot open.
 Early this morning what were be- lieved to be the cries of children were heard issuing from the Colonial hotel in Sterling street. A woman on her way to work believed the cries indi- cated that the youngsters were con- fined in the abandoned hostelry. She notified Col. Gayord, her employer, and he in turn immediately called up Police headquarters. Patrolmen Me Govern and Lush were despatched to the hotel. Obtaining key they went through the entire place. and found
 Early today another clue was run down that for a time promised an ex- planation of the disappearance of the children. Information reached fire headquarters in Middle street that Mrs. Gray, who conducted a rooming house in Gold street, in the rear of Moss & Kriegers, had removed, talk ing several small children with her. The police investigated, and ascer- tained the children were all Mrs. Gray's, for she is the mother of many. She left the city Sunday night, short ly after the disappearance of the boys, but the police are satisfied there was none but her own children with her.
 
 laundry of Fong Wong, at 45 Sterl- ing street, was subjected to search by Captain Arnold and Detective Sergeant Cronan. The celestial was apparently willing to talk without re- serve, and granted the officers the freedom of his place without hesita- ton.
 Suspicion was directed towards the Iaundryman by the elder sister of the little Chambers lad. She said the Chinaman had a grievance against the youngsters of the neighborhood, he might know of their whereabouts.
 For several hours today John Ray den. an empIoye of TOole & Sunder- lin, contractors, walked along the bot tom of the harbor near the foot bridge on Congress street. Hundreds gathered along the docks, upon the new bridge and on the frail and seem ingly tottering footbridge as he made repeated descents to the muddy river bottom, walking about in the murky water to convince himself, and the prOstrated parents, that the children are not in the water.
 Rayden volunteered his services without cost and Toole & Sunderlin provided the divers equipment with out charge. The only cost was the labor of the men who supplied the helped lift him in and out of the helped lifet him in and out Of the water, clad in his ponderous diving suit. He came upon nothing tangible.
 One of the theories exploded by po- lice investigation was that the Me Mahon child might have led little Freddie Chambers away on trip to Marblehead Mass, where his father is working for theSnare & Triest Co. The father however it is learned has been wiring his mother daily for news of the lost boy, and from the anxious tenor of his telegrams, the police are convinced that he knows nothing of the sons whereabouts.
 Mrs. McMahon told the police last night that shortly after little Joe'S loss, she sent word to friends In Brooklyn. They formerly lived at s44 Kent avenue, in that city, but left there in August. McMahon is a super intendent for Snare & Triest, and goes about the country following various bridge building jobs. He came here to work on the Congress street bridge, and is now working on a similar con- struction at Marblehead. MT. and Mrs. McMahon have eight children, includ- ing the lost boy, and they lived hap oily together, although frequently by the nature of his work the bridge man was called away from home for long periods.
 Through an employe of the Singer Mfg Co.,, word was brought to the CndIHD6TS AOul0, dL To w AAiioIii Ol., that after the fire Sunday night, two children were seen standing on a pile of earth in Housatonic avenue, back of No. engine house, this being part of the construction work for the new car barns.
 The informant said he saw two boys, and when he walked away he heard a rumble as of falling earth. He did not look back, he says, but later when he heard of the loss of the boys, he recalled the connection of circumstance and feared the boys had been buried alive. in the sliding of the bank of earth.
 George Chambers, brother of fire man Arthur Chambers, the father, went promptly to the scene, and in vestigated the place thoroughly. He came away convinced that this, like all the other clues run down up to