The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-10-15
ROSWELL TOT FOUND
AFTER WANDERING 3
DAYS WITHOUT FOOD
Little Laura Hedgecock strays
Away from Home and Almost
Perishes from Starvation and
Thirst Hundreds Join in Hunt.

Special correspondents TO The Herald.
Roswell. y. NJ, oct. ij.-The agony
Is over and little Laura Hedgccoxc ~
found.
Perhaps nothing has ever 80 mucn
stirred the sympathies OF the people
OF Roswell n surrounding country.
as did the news which reached here
Wednesday night that one OF the lit
tic twin girls % Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
iIcdgccoXc. had wandered away from
their home on the north side OF Capi
tan mountains. md could not be
found Hundreds ~ people from all
parts Of the surrounding cOuntrr,
flockcd 90 the foothills near the
Block ranch to engage in the search
for the lost child.
over me hundred people woat
Thursday morning from his city alone.
Parties who engaged In the search
estimate that at least 500 people were
securing the country surrounding tho
HedgccoNc ranch. all filled with the
deepest emotions 81 sympathy as the
were making untiring efforts TO find
the little child that had UP to that
time spent two days and nights alone
In q country iafested By the Wild ami
male that ,nhabit the mountain coun-
try. The entire student body OF the
Captain schools were participating IN
the search. Al day long was the
search Ike { up with undated energy.
but as another night began to APP
proach. many began TO lose heart.
II was at about 80 Thursday even
INK when two Of the boys of the Capt.
tan schools. who had started down
through the flat in search Of the a
that had brought them over. and when
they had reached a point In the Los
ialos pasture, about three smiles south
~ the headquarters 81 the Block ranch
saw the little girl dressed only In her
undcrclothes rise. To her feet nj some
distance In front of them. The mo-
mcnt she saw the boys she came run
ming to them.
Strange 10 say that though she had
necn without food for two nights AMI
three days she had sufficient strength
10 walk aud even TO run tn meet her
r%escuers. She was carried TO a car
and taken to her grief stricken par
"nts. She Kept saying she was hun
cry and wanted some ice cream"
She told her mother that she took g
n ''dink on the droun''
II was certainly a great relief not
only to the fond parents and their
relatives. but to the hundreds Of pco-
pie who were assisting IN the search
The place where she was found is
about two ana one half miles from the
Htdg"c"Nc home u viii never De
known how far his little three year
old girl walked. in nor Nanderings be-.
tuT" b was found Some 81 tho
hunting party had found her little
dress and saw her tracks earlier To-
the afternoon, high up no the foothills
md ~ The very base 90 the Captain
mountain. perhaps five miles from the
point whore she WAS found How She
ever survived those two terrible
nights escaped tho wild beasts and
maintained $50 much strength. rs one
30 those mysteries that the human
H.'"d sauuUt flthum.
However the doctors who cNap,Iu
% ly"r say sh" could not have suryiy-
od another night, clad as .h, va. iH
'h" mountains. Another r|cm,rkall .
thing about this sad affair was the
manner In which the fond mother
was able 90 bear up throughout, an
Of her terrible experience Il Ger
trinly marked her as e woman Of not
"ul' strong Will power but with an
exceedingly stroug and we'll poised
mind. Word from the l~lclgccoNc
ranch is Geo the effect that The child
seems entirely all IRISH, and that every.
BODY concerned are well and filled
with 10y uUsucakablc that their sweet
little girl has been safely returned =,
Tho homo nest ana to the loving hearts
Of hcr parents.