KIDNAPPED BY GIPIES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 3

KIDNAPPED BY GIPIES

BOY’S ROMANTIC! STORY POUND AFTER 13 YEARS The romantic story ol a child stolen by gipsies and recovered after 13 years comes from Stuttgart, in •Germany. On February 18, 1910, tlie two-year-old son of a tram employee named Latin, who had gone out to play in tMe street, : failed to return home. As his cap was found ‘ later ou the banks of the Resenbach, it was concluded tnat he had fallen into the water and been drowned, though the police dragged t ! bp bed of the stream for his body in vain. Recently Baun’s attention was drawn to an advertisement in' a Heilbronu paper inquiring whether anyone in Wurtemberg bad lost a son, who would now be about 14years of age. The advertiser gave an address in Czecho-Slovakia. Laun at once wrote to him, and received in reply a photograph, winch lie is convinced is that of bis lost son. It seems that at Christmas, 1920, the boy ran away from the gipsy Sydney from New Britain recently Czech' villager, who having recently lost a. son of about the same age, took him. in and brought him up. When, however, the time ca*ie t° put f;ho lad to &• trade, the police made dilfieulties about bis identification papers, and the foster-father at last decided to make an attempt toj discover his real parents. From certain Avords of {,hc bov 't was in " j lerredi that his original home avus in Wurtemberg, and for/ that reason -the quest was made through the Heilbronu paper. Laun is now on his way to bring home his long-lost son.