The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

T got hungry after while so I ate some wild strawberries I found in the woods. Whenever l saw any berries ate them, but I never found enough and I was always hungry. I wandered around all that day and 1t got night again and sat down beside tree and went to sleep and by and by 1t got light again and the sun came up.
 Looked For Camp
 "I started looking for the camp again. Then I sort of lost track of the days and I don't know when 1t was fell in that brook. was wan- dering through the woods and I didn't see 1t and fell in. had torn my clothes before and they got soaked and so did the matches had in my pocket 50 couldn't have a fire anymore. "There were lots of bramble bushes and they tore my clothes right off. lost my clothes a little bit at time until I didn't have any. just kept wandering around hoping to find that camp. I climbed up into trees several times every day and tried to see where I was, but the only thing could see was a lot of trees.
 "Toward the last I was getting awfully weak and I fell down several times every day. guess I might have fainted once, because didn't remember anything for quite Q while. I had just about given ur ever getting anywhere when I came out to that river, and thought heard someone so I hollered and that guide found me. was so weak couldn't have gone much longer. Many Sought Him
 Most of the while Dom was wan dering' through the pine forest, 30t to 500 national guardsmen, forest rangers, lumberjacks, game wardens and civilians were looking for him They found no trace of him, and over the weekend the search prac- tically ceased as all woodsmen agreed that even if he hadn't fallen over a precipice, he couldn't have sur vived unaided in the woods. His parents came here from their home in Rye, N. ., and due to their insistence, 8 few men continued tc search, but without hope. So hard did the father seek his boy that he collapsed, and was In . hospital when Dom was found yesterday afternoon.
 Nelson McMorrin, a guide with a sporting camp eight miles from Stacyville near the Penobscot river heard someone calling across the east branch of the river. He pad dled' his canoe across and there or the opposite bank was a naked boy
 "He was pretty badly scratched, he said. "There was @ sore on his side. I guess that was because he had been sleeping on the ground SC much without clothes. He was pretty weak. I hollered back across the river to my wife that I'd found the missing Boy Scout"
 Given Hot Soup
 Mrs. McMorrin gave Dom some hot soup and clothed him as best she could, and McMorrin brought him to the Lunkasooe lumber camp here.
 The parents were at the Eastern Maine General hospital in Bangor 60 miles away, Fender as @ patient The United Press telephoned tho hospital and Dr. Allan Craig, the medical director, who knows tht woods, refused to believe that thu child could have been found alive He wouldn't relay the news to thu parents, not wishing to give then hope that would be disappointed later, until he was assured the iden. tification was positive.
 T never saw two happier people, he said.
 A few minutes later, the lumber camp put through a telephone cal 50 the parents could talk to ,thei son. Fender heard his voice ant wept. Last night the mother lief Bangor for the difficult motor tril here, but Dr. Craig wouldn't le Fender go.