Boy, 3, Disappears from Ohio Home

Article taken from The Charleston Daily Mail, May 3, 1944

Portsmouth, O - (AP)

Police and scores of volunteers today widened their search for Ronald Boggs, 3-year-old child who disappeared yesterday with his pet dog, Brownie, from his exclusive Forest Park home.

The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Boggs, was reported last seen with his brown and white fox terrier dog at 10 a.m. yesterday. No trace has been found of either. Hills near the Boggs' home were being searched today after a fruitless all night search.

Boggs is an employee of the Williams Manufacturing Co., shoe manufacturers. The company announced that it planned to release about 500 - 600 employees of the company later to aid in the search. The employees had volunteered to help.

It was believed that the boy had beomce lost in the woods or the hills near his home and had not been kidnapped.

 

 

 

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Portsmouth Boy, Pet Dog Found

Article taken from The Coshocton Tribune, May 4, 1944

Child Unharmed; Absent 32 Hours

Portsmouth, O -

Little Ronald Arthur Boggs and his pet dog, "Brownie", played together again today with their roving days, Ronald's parents hoped; behind them.

The three-year-old child and his dog, part terrier, part beagle, were found last night after a 32 hour search by approximately 1500 persons from the Ohio river city.

The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorr Boggs, wandered away from his home in the exclusive Forest Hill, section Tuesday morning. He was found by three boys and another dog at the head of Huetter's hollow, a heavily-wooded section about four miles north of his home.

The boy apparently had spent Tuesday night in a cave with his dog. He was scratched from briars and sunburned, but Dr. George Obrist said he was healthy and unharmed by his experience.

At the height of the search, approximately 800 employees of the Williams Manufactering Co., joined other volunteers in the hunt for the boy.

His father, an employee of the Williams Company, a shoe manufactory, said it was the second time the child had wandered away.

"I guess I'll have tp fence him in after this," Boggs said. "Maybe he'll stay home then."