Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-05
MISSING BOY
 IS BACK HOME Irving Blu5henthal Slept in Woods While Relatives
 Searched for Him.
TRIP INTERRUPTED
Says He Was Going tO Cincinnati Boarded Train at Dexter
 Yesterday Morning.

Thoroughly convinced th4t home IS the best place after all, Irving Blu thenyral, the tAirteen-ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hel bert G. Rlut ,onthal, of No. 1902 West Fifth avenue, whose sudden and mysterious disablpG zane, from the city Monday afternoon CT It. ed alarm and excitement in Jhr city last night, when he id not return home at the supper hour, was brol5ht back tc his parental roof yesterday ..f- ternoon from Little Rock, w'lt re h, was awaiting 9 train there to 20 to Cincinnati, to visit rel lives. T.e boy Nai. accompanied home by his cousin, Harold Bluthenthal, W|lo wen to Lit- tie Rock early yesterday morning to search fer him, after Pine Bluff had been systematically scouled for hcJrs without even a clue that might haze led 10 the boys whereabouts.
 When Irving alighted from the aft ernoon Iron Mountain train nt Union Station in his city Tuesday afternoon, on,v to be greeted by his joyous fa.'her, he burst into tears and told his Papa" that he would never leavn home again. He was. taken home and his Anxious mother joined him in a happy crying spell.
 Graphic Aided Searchers.
 When the Graphic carried the news over the city yesterday morning of the boys disappearance and the searchers were trying to locate him, Postmaster Furth informed Mir. Bluthen;hal lnat his boy had visited the Posofficc Monday afternoon and had drawn out $17 .12 from the Postal Savings Bank which he had deposited there at the rate of dollar a week for several weeks. Postmaster Fulth thought ! nothing of the incident until he read of the boy being missing. It was then that the relatives of the boy revived hopes of finding the boy alive, for it was believed Mondey night that he had met with foul play.
 Working under the theory that the boy had gone to Little Rock the aft ernoon before the relatives immed- lately sent Harold Blut,lenthal, cou- sin, to the capital to look for lim. He had no sooner arrived than ne was informed that the boy was in the GUS tody of August Thalheimer, former Pine Bluffian, who had been 1n- formed that boy answering the de- scription of the Bluthenthal lad was at Union Station in custody of a 1 baggage man. The baggage man had read of the boys disappearance in the Gazette and l1e took him in charge when he say him "loafing about the Station.
 Tells of Experience.
 l When he arrived home last nighi Irving told his parents that he had planned to go to Cincinnati, to visit his mothers relatives. He went from school to his home and then to the postoffice, where he got his money from the Postal Savings Bank. T5on he went to Kress' and purchased an axe-a hand axe. He walked out 1 West Fourth avenue, along the Iro7 Mountain tracks, and before he had gone four miles darkness overlook l him. He ran upon man at the side of the road, sitting by camp fire. He asked the man if he could stay there over night and the man gladly granted his. request. He got board, Young Irving says, and laid down on it beside the fire. He was soon fast asleep. Early Tuesday morning the man told him to get up, as he was going to leave him. The boy walked several miles through the woods to Dexter, where he says he met a man, who asked him his name and who told him he knew his grandfather, Sam Bluthenthal, of Pine Bluff. The man advised him to return home, but Irv- ing told him that he was going to Little Rock. The boy sold his axe to negro for 50 cents, after purchasing some potted ham and crackers for breakfast. He boarded the accommo- dation train ard rode to Little Rock. where he fell into the hands of a