Show lonely boy flees from farm to watery death in field TERRE HAUTE IND although mrs esther baker earnestly tried to convince her 11 year old son wayne smith that she wanted him he wouldn t believe her mrs baker remarried after be ing divorced from wayne a father has only a small apartment in terre haute there wasn gasn t room for the boy she took wayne to live with hi his Is father harry smith on a farm near town he was lonely on the farm and ran away ahree times she took him back there in a tax taxi and left him I 1 won t stay here he screamed and ran across the fields the father tried to call a warn ng but it was too late wayne began run ling across what for most of the year Is a dry wash he couldn coulden t see in the dark ness that it was running 12 feet deep with water from melting snow the boy drowned and the veri veru t d I 1 at an inquest was accidental death |