Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1914 — TELEPATHY UNITES BOY WITH A SISTER [ARTICLE]

TELEPATHY UNITES BOY WITH A SISTER

Had Been Separated Since Time of His Adoption Thirteen Years Ago MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY While He Was In Doorway Thinking of Her and Wishing Hard She Awoke and Determined to Find Him. New York. —Andrew Silagl, thirteen years old, an orphan who had run away from his foster father, spent a sleepless night lying on the hard boards of a hallway on the east side. In his waking hours he wept and wished that he could find his sister, of whom he had heard vague stories from the man who had adopted him. On the same night his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Romain, of New Brunswick, N. J., suddenly awaked from her sleep with an overpowering fear that something was wrong with her brother, who had been given away for adoption when three months old and whom she had not seen for thirteen years. This strange case of telepathy sulted in the reunion of the brother and sister after a three weeks’ search by Mrs. Romain. Brother and sister met at the headquarters of the Children’s Society. The boy, who was a half orphan from birth, was adopted by John Wass, of Hicksville, N. J. It was stipulated that he should not he seen by any member of his family until he was fifteen years old. Andrew lived for thirteen years with Mr. Wass. He was a good boy, but high spirited. One day while correcting the boy for some prank Mr. Wass told him that he was not his father and that his only relative was a sister. The lad several days later ran away from home and came to New. York. He Bought work unsuccessfully, and tor a week went hungry and slept In hallways, always thinking of his sister and wishing that he could reach her. Robert McDowell, of No. 202 Avenue C, found him In front of his home and took him to the Children’s Society. The boy was unable to give any account of himself, except that he had lived in New Jersey, and with this clew the agents of the society began a hunt for his relatives. Mrs. Romain at the same time was conducting a search of her own for her brother. Immediately after she received the telepathic message she went to Hicksville to try and locate Mr. Wass. She found tnat he had moved to Perth Amboy, but was unable to learn his address. An advertisement located Mr. Wass, but, to her dismay, Mrs. Romain heard that the boy had run away several weeks before. The only clew which Mr. Wass was able to furnish was that the lad had threatened several times to visit New York. Mrs. Romain came here and was directed to the Children’s Society. Accompanied by the man who had adopted her brother she went to the society’s rooms, and the first boy brought out for inspection was the bay she wanted to see. When the lad learned the identity of the woman who was looking at him so Intently with tear filled eyes he rushed into her arms, crying: “Oh, I knew that I would find you! I wished so hard for It!” “So did I, dear,” replied Mrs. Romain. “I felt your wishes all of the time." Neither Mrs. Romain nor her brother could discuss the telepathic phase of the matter, nor did they care to. Both were too happy over the reunion. Mrs. Romain immediately took steps to obtain the custody of the body. At the time of the adoption no legal steps were taken, Mr. Wass merely having promised to bring up the boy as he would a son of his own. He was willing to transfer the custody of the lad to the sister. Mrs. Romaln’s husband is a foreman in one of the departments of a big manufactory in New Brunswick. He easily made it clear that financially he was able to care for the boy. The lad then was turned over to his sister. Joyfully the two left the society's building for Mrs. Romain’s home, at No. 32 Eastern avenue, New Brunswick. “I believe it was a case of telepathy,” said Mr. Hedley, of the Children’s Society. “We never would have found the boy’s relatives If Mrs. Romain had not begun her search at the same time.”