Boys Missing Mother Hunting
Article taken from The Lima News, December 26, 1936

 

   Cincinnati, Dec. 26-(AP)- Police looked for "Mother" today in an effort to satisfy the Christmas longing of 10-year-old Henry Carter of Portsmouth.

   The boy, hungry and sobbing, was found by officers last night as they patroled a section of Ohio river bottoms land.  He had hitchhiked from the home of an aunt, he said, giving her name as Bessie Marlow.

   Henry was given a belated Christmas dinner, then placed in the juvenile detention home, while police notified Portsmouth authorities and continued search for "Mother."