From: The Independent
Banner, Shelbyville, Shelby Co., IN, Feburary 2, 1855
Child lost on Sunday morning about 10 A.M., F.H. Tinkle [T.H.],
a boy, 11 years of age & stepson of Christopher Bone [Bowman]
who resides two miles S.W. of London on Buck Creek in this county,
started out with three days rabbit hunting. As he did not soon
return his parents went in search of him. They followed his tracks
to Boggstown, when it became so dark as to prevent further pursuit.
Next morning his track was followed into the woods near Wray's
Meeting House, where it was lost by drifting snow. Mrs. Nail
(of the neighborhood) says she heard a boy hollow [sic] and then
cry, in the woods near her residence about 8:00 o'clock Sunday
night. It is supposed that of the lost boy. Four days were spent
this week by more than 100 men in searching the county for the
lost boy. Yesterday he was found in a field near Fessenbecks,
frozen to death and almost entirely destroyed,as it was supposed
by the hogs that were in the field. What a horrible scene this
must have been. A poor little boy wandering from his parents
in good health & after 4 days of anxious suspense, to find
a mangled corpse. It is said that one of the dogs was still with
him when found.
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