Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — Finds Young Son After a Long Search [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Finds Young Son After a Long Search

DENVER, —“There’B my papa," said four-year-old Frederick Eugene Lockwood, pressing his face against the window-pane of one of the rooriis of tMe state home for dependent children. A minute later the boy had his arms around his father’s neck and both father and son were crying with joy. His Identification by the boy was a test suggested by the father to prove that he was the boy’s parent. Frederick H. Lockwood, the father, is a balloonist and parachute jumper, and when there are no circuses nor county fairs where his services are In demand he works as a cook in hotels and restaurants. For more than a year Lockwood has ben trying to find his boy, but without sucoess. A few days ago he finished an engagement at the more hazardous of his two occupations in the south and came on to Denver to make another effort to find the boy. When he asked for the custody of the child he suggested a test to prove that he was the boy's father. He stood, with several other men, outside the home and the boy was taken to a window and asked if he recognized any of the party. The child picked

out his father without hesitation. This time he was successful, but heard a story that made his blood boll with anger. Little Frederick Lockwood was taken to the detention home last October and left there by Mrs. Edith M. Villaume Goebel, wha told the matron 1 of the home that the boy was turned over to her by an inmate of a resort in Seattle, Wash. She asked the detention home to take charge of the boy. When the child was undressed at the detention home it was found that his left arm was broken, his left collar bone dislocated and that his body; was covered with marks and bruises. He was sent to the county hospital, and from there to the state home. He has never recovered from his injuries, and may be a cripple all his life.'