The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-23
CONTINUE SEARCH
FOR MISSING BOY
Flying Squadrons of Detectives
Scurry Over South Jersey
in Automobiles.
IMPORTANT CLUE is FOUND
Officers Think They Are on
Right Trail, and Hope to
Find Warren Mccormick.
CLUE is FOUND
lspecia, to The Tlmes-Dispatcn.I

Philadelphia. March 22.--What the
police believe the most tangible clue
to the whereabouts of Warren Nc
Carrick, the scvcn-y -year-old boy for
whose recovery rewards amount to
$4,000 have been offered, was found to-
day by dying squadrons of detectives
! II automobiles aent from this city and
Atlantic City. scurying over South
Jersey.
The searchers sent 9ut by Captain OF
] electives Cameron telephoned from
Iicmenton, y. j.. late this afternoon
they believed they were on the right
trail. TWO residents Of the town de-
clarcd they saw n boy they believed TO
be Warren McCarrick at the Reading
J Railway Station in Clcmenton last
night about . o'clock. The boy wore
a knitted cap, blue chinchilla overcoat
and rubber boots. they said. This was
the way the boy was dressed when ho
disappeared
William Smith. white. and Albert
Hicks, colored, are the Clementon men
who say they saw the boy. lie was in
company with three men, they declared,
and their attention was attracted to
the quartet because the boy was cry
ing. and evidently trying to escape
from his captors. One of the men was
about twenty years old. five feet. eight
inches tall, and wore Il dark overcoat
ana derby hat. The other two men
were each about twenty eight years
old, and each slightly shorter in stat
ure than their younger companion
One wore n dark fedora hat, and the
other q derby.
! Start on Walking.
| The men appeared to be waiting for
train. but when their efforts to Quiet
the crying boy failed. they started OF
walking down the tracks toward Al
lantic CITY Al llammonton, \. j., a
Mrs. Hull declares she saw the quartet
pass her cousc in n covered wagon.
! railroad detectives Of tho Pcnnsyl-
vania and Reading systems Immediate
| ~ were notified and joined with the
Philadelphia detectives and others
sent from Atlantic City in automobiles
All the station agents along the lines
iof both roads We're notified by telc-
graph not to leave their posts and to
hold up and arrest any trespassers
along the tracks.
IN army Of Philadelphia newspaper
men and photographers followed in the
wake OF the lying automobile, ana
early tonight caught up with the de-
tectiVcs The alarm was sounded as
the party passed through each Jersey
town and notices bearing photographs
and the description of the missing boy
were scattered broadcast among the
citizens by the detectives.
| The detectives learned that the three
men and the hoy had been seen in other
localities in South Jersey, and con
cluded from descriptions of their
movements that they had adopted a
plan of sleeping through the day and
| travelling by night.
Father Makes Appeal.
Help us In our great trouble. re-
member even little things" declared
James McCarrick, father Of the kid
mapped boy. to-day. in second appeal
to the parents OF the country TO aid
in the search.
ut has been eleven days since nv
son was taken from our home, and
each day has added so much to the
misery and suspense that our hearts
ache. We are scarcely able to sleep or
eat. My wife cries continually for our
boy. and, although have done my best
TO Keep UP heart and have been en-
couraged by the brave men and women
! Continued On Second Pago)