Missing Child
Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 21, 1873
On Thursday afternoon, the 12th inst., while Mr. and Mrs. Dwight C. Scott of this village were away from home, a girl named Mary Sanders, aged eleven years, enticed their little son, aged seven years, away from home. They were traced to Sidney, whither they had traveled on foot, a distance of five miles. There they took the cars on the Midland and got off at Lyon Brook Bridge. Mr. Scott at once instituted a search, but did not learn any clue to their whereabouts until quite late in the afternoon. At length tracks were discovered leading up the railroad toward Sidney Plains, and they were distinctly tracked across the railroad bridge about two and a half miles above this village, when the lantern was extinguished by a strong gust of wind, and the darkness prevented seeing any more tracks. Mr. Scott followed the road to the depot at Sidney, and after making several inquiries found they had been seen there and had undoubtedly taken some of the trains which left about dark; but which one it was not known. A messenger was dispatched for Mr. Harrington, the baggage master, who said they were bound for Lyon Brook Bridge. The telegraph wires were then called upon to give some tidings of the youthful travelers. There being only a flag station at Lyon Brook, conductor McCelvey was called upon at Norwich, who informed the father that the children left the train at Lyon Brook Bridge. Mr. Scott immediately repaired thither, where he found his lost boy. The girl, who was living with Mr. Scott, was a wild, willful creature, and no doubt threatened the boy with punishment if he refused to follow her that afternoon. The little fellow is now at the house of his parents, in this village, but the young miss was purposely left at the Bridge.
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