CHARLEY
388
Leib, of St. Paul, Minnesota,
ROSS.
who was
stolen about four
years ago, but for what object never was ascertained, as nothing has ever been heard of
him
since he
was
taken away.
The
and whose history we who have been abandoned by their parents. Sometimes the father, at other times the mother, would leave a child at a place or house, either to board or to be temporarily cared for, and never return for him. Many children scattered over the country, who have been taken out of different charitable institutions in the cities, have been reported to us in our searches; sometimes by the persons themselves, who have come into possession of them, at other times by their neighbors, who could not account for a strange child being brought among them, and not stopping to inquire into the matter, concluded that he might be the missing boy. Children of a fair complexion found with gipsies and other wandering people we are sure to hear of Illegitimate children who have been secreted naturally cause conjecture and in other cases, where there has been disagreement between parents, either one of whom taking away a little boy into a children
we have
traced,
could find out, have been those
;
strange town, the efforts
made
to conceal the child
so as to prevent the other parent finding him, would
awaken the suspicion of some one who would report it Only one case has come under our notice of a child having been taken through personal revenge, and we have had two instances in which children have been put on railroad cars by inhuman persons to be cared for by conductors of the trains. We have also had a few instances reported by managers of charitable institutions, to us.