| Show 1 BOY OY FINDS MOTHER AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS YEAR By Father Fate Leads Youth To Parent In Need Restored to Mother After Nearly Score Of Years Young Soldier Finds He Returned Home Just In Time to Be Of Service BY HAROLD MATSON NEA Service Staff Writer LYNN L Mass May A 20 20 A son 20 has Just met his mother for the first time since he has been out of swaddling clothes I I He comes to her after atter 17 ears cars at a a line when hen she needs him most She Sha Is pool Hot Hei little I fam fal m in Maine Maino 0 Is heas heavily ily mort mort- mort mortgaged mort She Is sickly I I And nd I was as sas so afraid I would be he Just a sti sll anger to ou the tho Ison son told his mother I am happy to ha c ha e found you ou and I am hap happier hap hap- happier I pier that I can be a real son to ou Ho Howard ord s story Is Isone I IHo one ot of o strange the complications complications sort tei Mys-tei one on finds In the mOt monies les Mys- Mys tel action the unexpected arid Itel the happy ending HL IlL HLo W IS Wt o t S l IdD Di P D I When hen he ws as as three 1 eau eais old his father him from his Ils mother They had agreed to sop sep separate sep separate arate arato but neither could agree afire to togi a o gl up the th boy Police Pollee the moth moth- mother's mother's ers er's 1 IS I'S and friends were sere un- un unable Unable un unable able to find Ho Howard ard after aUer the rather father had bad taken him to North Handle Quebec and there ho he hen was wa-t brought t up believing believing- that hIs aunt was as IsIs Ills true truo mother It was ns not until Howard ard was nas 17 that he learned the truth r rIt His mother was ns III One afternoon on his wa home from school a e hurried to meet I him His mother was as dying rhe fhe doctor had Iad slid said it was as but a I matter of or Ho How al aid d raced home In the I SIck room the tile woman oman lying on the I bed beckoned to him and drew I hIs head do down n close to her that he ho would be sure sur to hear her whisper h Isper 1 I I am not sour our mother Ie he but gasped but he he could tell nomore no nomore nomore more Death had had d It It was almost like Illee suffering the loss twice tl ce McConnell tells ot of othis his I I had loved and worshipped her as my own o moth moth- mother er er-at er at the tho time I almost wished she sho had hd not told me the truth the rho shock with sith Ith Its ante climax ante was almost moro mono than the th boy could bear Running n away y from his home horn he set out to find hIs real neal mother All he had as means or of Identification was as a picture o of himself when ho h was as a 0 baby a picture his mother might also alo al hate ha e eror a 0 year ho searched the eastern states Discouraged desperate ho he joined the naY navy nav tre Ir he lie went tnt he continued hi his hunt But It was not until early e this month that he came across a 0 tangible clue a as to the whore here where about of ot his hia mother n lEE rI I MOTHER McConnell had ad leftt he h navy and was as but hut two t weeks In the tho army stationed at rort Fort Slocum Now York By Dy chance chanco chanc ho lie met a 0 aI I dative ot of his mother On a leave or of ho he h came cam to Lynn Lynn- Lynn But by a similarly pt peculiar ullar co- co coIncidence coincidence co coincidence incidence Mrs Irs Marion Marian McConnell Mason Maon on of Wellington fe Ie I had come to Lynn She ghe was as ill III and friends here were ere caring earing for h her r I Mother Iother and son on met brought together b George Georgo W toe boys boy's grandfather 1 I And now action Is being taken to have the son aon released fron from tIme the arm arma that be lie may support the I mother whom he ho has just met met- met for tor the first time |
