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Show oo INFANT FOUND HELDJN HOTEL (By International News Service.) ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. A golacn-hftlrcd, golacn-hftlrcd, blue-oyed boy of two and a half years, abandoned In St. Johnsbury hotel ho-tel and locked alone without fooa lor twenty-four hours in a room on the fourth floor, Is furnishing northeastern northeast-ern Vermont with mystery and excitement ex-citement a-plenty. Tho local authorities have come to the conclusion that tho lad was kidnaped. kid-naped. He Is well dressed and appears ap-pears of good parentage. Little "Billy" that Is the young-ator'a young-ator'a name is believed to havo been left here by W. H. Wheolor, a convict con-vict on parole from Windsor prison, and his wife. A search for the couple has led the police a merry chase across tho stato of Now Hampshire. The Wheolers are reported havo beon traveling free by the simple method of engaging a ola-blo ola-blo rig In one town, driving it to tho next, la.vian: it. hiring a fresh outfit and moving on. Their trail has led through Plymouth, N. H.; Laconla, JSast Tllton. P.inacodk, Concord, Sun-cook Sun-cook and Manchester. Tho woman, who gives the name of Pearl Whltclor. engages the rig. it is Bald, and picks up her husband oujtsldc the town. Meanwhile in this community in the hills, every one is all excited over little "Billy." From far and near northeastern Vormonters have come to see the lad. More than 100 chila-less chila-less women, a majority of them married, mar-ried, havo offered to ado,pt "Billy." The littlo fellow has been uhowered with gifts by the people of this section sec-tion and the merchants havo fitted him out with clothes. "My nam0 J.n Billy Foaa." the lad told Sheriff Wilbur Worthen when tho latter visited him aoon aftor ho hnd been discovered alono in the no-tel. no-tel. This statement furniahed a cluo which resulted In unraveling a little , of the mystery surrounding the baby. ! The authorities visited tho home of Mr. and Mrs. vrnon Foes at Morris- vllle. Here they learned that W. H. Wheolcr was recently paroled Irom "Windsor prison. He had been placed In tho Foss family. A few days after Wheeler arrived at tho Foss home Mrs. Wheeler came, bringing little "Billy." A week or so went by and tho Wheelers and Eiliy auddonly disappeared. The polleo found that the ex-convict and his wife had hired a horse in a livery stable at Morrlsvlllo and had driven to Johnson, Vt. It is alleged Wheeler sold the outfit. Wheeler, his wife and baby came from Johnson to bt. Johnsbury by train. Arriving here, they put up at the St. Johnsbury hotel. They registered as "Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Martin and baby of Cambridge. Vt." The next morning Wheeler and his wlfo fiod, leaving the child alone in the hotel room. |