Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-08
"Dotheboys Hail. Returns
Lost Son to Mothers Arms.
NINE LADS ARE RESCUED
Physical Suffering Amidst Filthy
Conditions.
RELATIVES DUPES OF COUPLE
Paid for Maintenance and Instruc-
tion-Maloney Boy Be-
Heved Dead.

CHICAGO, October SThroush the
raiding of a so-called military school
near Joliet. H.. yesterday. when nine
boys were rescued from what are alleged
to have been conditions suggesting those
''Dotheboys Hail. made famous by
Dickens, boy and his mother who
thought each other dead were brought to-
gether here today.
The boy, Charles Maloney, is now thir-
teen years of age. He disappeared fol-
lowing the death Of his father ten years
ago.
Boy Given Up for Dead.
His mother thought he had been kid
mapped by relative, and later gave him
up for dead. She was married three years
ago to L. J. Bauer Of Chicago.
She saw the boys name among those
rescued. but did not recognize the lad
whom she remembered as a baby. II was
necessary to point her son out to her.
Mother and son were found with their
arms about each other by reporters.
Poor little laddie! Poor little laddie!"
the mother croOned. ITO think what you
have been through But you have home
and q mother now.
The school was conducted by James j.
Campbell at Riverside, near Chicago, un-
til last August, when Campbell, his wife
and the nine boys started down the lllt-
nois river in boat At Channohan,
village twelve miles from Joliet, the boat
was disabled, and the passengers took
refuge in a house nearby.
The raid on the place was made by
Jerry Mccarthy, state officer for the I'LL
nois Humane society, to which complaint
of conditions at the school had been
made.
Raider Describes Distress.
tons as found there said Mccarthy
There was not stick Of furniture in
the place except a table and two stoves.
THE boys slept on the bare floor of q
room II feet by IA. The only coverings
for the entire outfit, including Campbell
and his wife. were six comforters.
The boys told me that they begged
from neighbors and gathered corn in the
fields. When they first landed the boys
said that they lived for two weeks In a
shed owned by a bridge tender, until the
place got SO filthy that they were ordered
out
Campbell, am Informed. received SO
each for their care and course Of In
struction. The relatives. 1 have learned,
who put up the money, believed that the
lads were we'll cared for.
Feeling was running high i'm the
neighborhood. / don't know what would
have happened had the raid been de-
layed."
The boys are being held at the juvenile
detention home in this city. They will
tell their stories in court next Tuesday.
List of Rescued Boys.
The following list Of names. with out
lines of their histories, was furnished by
Mccarthy:
: Frank LANCE, ten years old; mother di-
vorced, but lives in Chicago.
Leigh Weidner, ten years old; father
dead; mother remarrier.
Charles Maloney. thirteen years old /;
parents enormously thought to be dead.
His grandfather, David A,aloney, lives in
Chicago.
John Landon, nine years old; parents
employed at South Shore Country Club.
Louis Walz. thirteen years old; parents
Roy Gardner. fifteen years old: pare
ents separated; mother in Chicago.
Bruce Gardner. thirteen years old:
brother of Roy.
Carmen Weidner. eleven years old:
brother of Leigh.
Peter White, fourteen years old; par
ents divorced; mother remarked and
lives at Reno. New.