A LOST SON FOUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15073, 16 August 1912, Page 7

A LOST SON FOUND.

KIDNAPPED WHEN A BABY.

RETURNED AFTER .TWENTY *: YEARS.

PJS MOTHER IN AUCKLAND.

[Br TELEGRAM. —OWN f orresfoxdent. ]

Wellington*, Thursday. KiDN-UMTD 22 years ago by his grandmother from a suburb of Auckland, Christopper Daniel Saunderson, known as Chris. Ward, an employee of the United Railroads in Pan Francisco, a youth who has been living for some time past in Oakland, California, was recently identified through the,, efforts of Thomas Westoby, 717, Sycamore-street, Oakland, and is now returning to his mother, Mrs. Charlotte gaonderson, who still lives near Auckland.

According to the story told by Westoby, (lie'lad was kidnapped by his grandmother when about two years old, and brought to California, where his father, Charles Saunderson, known as Charles Ward, was Jiving. Saunderson, sen., is now dead. Westoby became acquainted with Saunderson and bis grandmother —who has fince died—after the great earthquake and tiro in San Francisco, where the pair were living at the time. Sannderson has "also discovered that he has a brother living in Auckland.

The cause of the kidnapping is said to have been due to a quarrel between the parents. -

Mr. Saunderson arrived from San Francisco by tbo Manuka to-day, and goes od to Auckland by train to-morrow.