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Show KIDNAPED BABY SEEKS PARENTS Stolen , Forty-Six Years Ago ,, . Out of Revenge Springfield, Ma Iu the spring of 1878 little company ' of traveler passed through , Springfield In light spring wagons and continued on their way on a road leading northeast from the city. Stopping at a small town two miles outside of the city, members mem-bers of the bond attempted to steal some vegetables from a garden. The farmer1' wife, who was alone at the farmhouse, with her two-year-old daughter, objected to this and set the dogs on the unwelcome visitors snd forced thera to beat a hasty retreat. re-treat. Angered at being chased by the dogs, one member of the bund slipped Into the front yard of the farmhouse, snd before the mother1 eye kidnaped the baby. The travelers then Jumped InLQ their wagons and soon disappeared. By the time the neighbors had arrived ar-rived at the farmhouse In answer to the mother's acreama the travelers' wagons were several mile away and chase proved futile. Much eiclte-ment eiclte-ment was caused In Greene county by the kidnaping, but through the long year nothing had been heard of the missing child until recently, when Chief of Police A. 0. Boehm received a letter from a woman residing at 1311 South Bobnett street, Oklahoma City. Okla. The writer. Mrs. Belle Culllson, la now forty-elght. Her letter let-ter tell the story: "Chief of Police, Springfield. Mn.: Dear 8lr I am a stranger to you, but I would like your help. I don't know whether my parents are living liv-ing or dead. In the spring of the year 1879 a little girl about two year old wa kidnaped from her father- farm by a company of traveler In rimp wagons. They stole me because mother moth-er set the bloodhounds on them. "One of the fa. allies kept me as prisoner and raised me a their own child. Before the man died, however, he made a confession. Now, I would like to find my own father and mother If they are still living. At the time I wa kldnnpe'd" my "parents "par-ents lived on a farm .one and one-half miles east of Springfield. "Their name was Joseph' Cecord, or Secod. I don't know how to spell the name. I have ifled to find them by writing letters, but they have been sent back. I had an aunt by the nnme of Alice Cecord. Please help me to find them If you can." |