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-HERALD, WINONA, MINN. _Pajama-Clad Youngster Sleeps in ChickenhouseObject of All-Night Search Found Going Home From SchoolSearch for Keith Olson, seven, son of Mrs. Daisy Olson, 616 Dakota street, object of an all-night search after he ran away from his home at 10:30 p. m. Wednesday, halted this noon when police found him going home from school.The child, who ran away from his mother because he didn’t want his face washed, told police he slept, in an empty chicken house at the rear of the Olson residence. The boy said that after his mother left for work today, he climbed through a window at his home, put on his school clothes and went to school. At the time he ran away Keith was wearing only pajamas, police said.Mrs. Olson, who called in police and'the sheriff's office this morning after an all-night search by neighbors and friends had failed to locate the missing boy, said that Keith came in from play after supper and went to sleep.Kan OutdoorsAbout 10:30 p. m., the mother said she awakened the boy and ,told him to wash and get dressed for bed. She said he put on the pants to his pajamas but refused to wash and when she attempted to wash his face and hands, he jerked loose and ran out of door.Mrs. Olson said she was unable to catch him and thought that he had gone to the home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hicks, 553 Olmstead street. Keith was not there, however, she said. Berniece Hicks, her sister, told Mrs. Olson that she saw Keith run past the house and go over the Milwaukee railroad tracks.The mother and grandparents continued to search the neighborhood during the most of the night.Authorities made an extensive search but did not inquire at the school because the grandparents told them that they had checked at the school and the boy was not there.On a Republican-Herald reporter’s hunch that the child may have gone out to his father's farm near Pickwick authorities and the reporter went to the farm but the child was not there.Had Been in SchoolPolice in a squad car cruising around the Olson neighborhood noticed a boy answering the description of Keith coming from the Madison school. They stopped the boy and he told them that he was Keith Olson and that he had been in school all morning.• “Where did you sleep last night?” the officers asked the boy.“I slept in the chlckenliouse back of our house,” the boy replied. “I didn’t have any breakfast but I’m sure going to eat a big dinner.”Mrs. Olson is employed at the Vulcan Manufacturing Company plant here. She has one other child, Dawn, nine.Because he didn’t want his face washed, Keltli Olson, seven, (nbove) son of Mr^. Daisy Olson, 616 Dakota street, ran away from home Wednesday night in his pajama pants. The boy, located by police today, said he spent the night in a chicken-house and crawled through a window at his home today to get his clothes. Then he attended school.
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Winona Republican Herald
Winona, Minnesota, US
Thu, May 06, 1943
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