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Show oo BOY LOCKED IN A CAR MAC0NVICT Philadelphia, April 4. Interest in tho search of Cornelius Rogers, 12 years old, who has been missing from his homo hero for a week, was Intensified In-tensified this afternoon, when Jas. P. Rogers, an assistant district attorney of Philadelphia and uncle of the boy, received a post card, saying Cornelius had been locked In a freight car by the wrltor, who had been prosecuted by the assistant district attorney and as a consequonco had served four yoars imprisonment lu the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Assistant District Attorney Rogers turned tho postal card, which wa3 signed "Convict 8G43, cell 352" over to tho detective department which is j trying to trace the box car, the number num-ber of which was given on the postal . card. The postal card was mailed in I Philadelphia and said: I "The uncle of the boy convicted me for four years in the pen. I swore . vengeance on him, but I take greater I pleasure in making hlB pcoplo miser-' able, like he made my Bisters. I hopo that the boy is dead." oo |