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Sensational Case of Four Years Ago Revived In Gallipolis, By EDNA ERVIN GALLIPOLIS — The sensational story of four years ago, when offi cers said an infant boy was found in an upstairs room of an Addison house, apeechless and half-starved, was revived Tuesday night by the visit of a Columbus woman, who claimed that the boy was her son. In August, 1932, Lucy and Sylves ter Hector of Addison were arrested charged with mal-treatment of their son, Loren, age 4, who had been found by Probate Judge James Clark and other officers in the upstairs room of their house, so weak from lack of food that he could not even turn over, and incapable of making any sound but a low moan. The boy was treated at Holzer Hospital for a few days then, and was placed in the Children'’a Home. Wilson Blazer, superintendent of the home, has become particularly at tached to the youngster, who is now a healthy, chubby, tow-headed boy, quick to learn, and a favorite with the other children at the home. VISITS COUNTY HOME Tuesday night, a Mrs. Lillie Hahn, 192 E. Duncan Sr., Columbus, and one of her small daughters, came here on the bus, and hired Wiley White's taxi to take them to the home. Mrs. Hahn told Blazer she had read about the child a few days ago, and that she was sure it was hers. She said Loren looked like her oth er 12 children, except that ‘‘his ears were larger.’ She asked Blazer if she could have the child to take back to Columbus with her Tues day night, but such permission could not be given. Wiley White was again engaged to drive her to the railroad station at Kananga, and she left on the eve ning train. She had refused to give her name at the Children's Home, and Blazer contacted Sheriff Elmer Hatfield, who called Columbus, and she was interviewed when she alighted from the train there. THINKS CHILD STOLEN Mrs. Hahn told Columbus authori ties that, in 1928, a Gallia County man was “hanging around’ in her neighborhood, and had taken her child and replaced it with another when the babies were only a few months old. “Am going to have a thorough in vestigation,’ Mrs. Hahn told Blaz er. ‘Don't think for a minute you've heard the end of this.” She said she would insist on a blood test, but Judge Clark, who is Loren's guardian, stated emphatical ly, “I will not agree to any such measures for my ward.” During the trial of the Hoctors four years ago, Mrs. Hoctor said the child was not hers, but belonged to her husband and a cousin. Sylvester Hoctor and his mother are now caring for the other four children in the family. He operates a filling station near Radcliff, Vin ton County. Lucy Hooter is a wait ress in the Rocchi restaurant here.
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 26, 1936
Page 8
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