The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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A long lost son discovered

--An infant boy was stolen from his father and mother at St. Louis nearly twenty-four years ago by a haunter who had lost his wife and child, and ‘"wanted something that would love him."’ He hurried the child into the wilderness, employed a half breed woman to nurse it, and not until recently was its long-bereaved mother able to obtain any definite information of her missing son. She had become a widow, and had lived in Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Detroit, and other places--‘"seeking rest and finding none."’ By means of a young sporting friend, who frequently met the old hunter and his ward in the Far West, and adroitly cross questioned him, the truth was ascertained, and the mother and son was last week reunited at Detroit, after a separation of about a quarter of a century. The poor woman's hair had grown white with age and anxiety, and her son will now gladly adopt civilized habits.