Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — After Four Years. [ARTICLE]

After Four Years.

Dayton (O.) Journal. A strange story, as romantic as any es (hose related by Dickens or other authors of fiction, is told of a young boy whose parents live in the sothernu part of this city. His slither and moth-, er vouch for the accuracy of the naira* tive, which, though probable, has an air of extreme improbability and wildness. The name of the family is Adams, and they have lived here several years. Mrs. Adams is the second wife of her presen t husband. Her first husband is still living, and the boy referred to is his son, a lad of fourteen years. Mrs. Adams was married to her first husband while living at her home In the east. Her parents objected to the match, and she finally eloped with the man and married him. It proved an unhappy Union. She claims he mistreated her in. every poeslb’e manner, until she sank beneath his cruelty, and her health was destroyed. She lived with him for fifteen years, and at the end of that period his conduct became unendurable, and she obtained a divorce from him. She had but one child, Clarence by name, who was small and weak in frame, and at that time only nine year* old. Her former husband was greatly enraged with her for obtaining a divorce. He followed her with persecutions from place to place, until she finally married Mr. Adams. For a while nothing more was heard from her first husband, but fearing his threast, die had always been carefol fa trusting her son Clarence from her sight. One dayl however, he did not return from scboo, at his usual hour, and on making inquiry as to the cause, the result proved the truth of her fears; the child had been abduced by his father. It was stated at the school that two men drove up the schoolhouse and inquired for the boy by that nuns, and when b oame out they lifted him Into the buggy and drove away. No trace of the kidnappers could be found. A liberal reward was offered for the return of «d to search for him ST thlTneigftSkmod of her first husband's home, La Porte, Ind., and at other pointe where avail, and four years pamed* without farther tidings of the child. \ v Mr. and Mm. Adams had pome in tho meantime to live in Dayton. About a year ago a letter was received Vamarateo Indiana* 11 At °‘ “e^terhoodS ndiU Sii 0d f ge hteh^h 1

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