Phenix Gazette

THE LOST CHILD FOUND.

Extract of a letter from R. C. Langdon to J.
Tooly, dated Alexandria, La. April 3, 1828

'I have one piece of intelligence which will
rejoice you much, and which induces me now
to write to you.

The long lost child of Mr. Clark
is at last found.

A Gentleman intimately acquainted
with Mr. Clark's family, heard that a child
answering the age and description one
lost by Mr Clark was in this place went to see it, and is positive as to its identity; he
has taken it clothed it and will take
to its parents Since last Saturday 29
March.) the day on which the discovery was
made, two gentlemen, formerly boarders at Mr.
Clark's house, have seen it; and before they
saw it, described it fully; there were marks
on the head made by lancing a boil,—and voice
upon examination, were found to be correct:-
Col. Oden, Mr. Moss, and Mr. Peyton, are the
gentlemen making the discovery. It seems that
this child was lost on the banks of the river at
Alexandria, and abandoned by its supposed
father, named Morgan, about 15 or twenty
months ago.

Note: "The letter written by Thomas Tutty
to Mr. Clark, informing him that his child
was alive, and "would be delivered to him
for the payment of 200 dollars, 50 of which was
to be advanced, was dated '2d Oct. 1826' post-marked 'Natch z. Oct. Said Thomas Tutty
alias, Edward H. Morris, was apprehended for
kidnapping said child, at the post office, Natchez, on 25th November, 1826, examined and
imprisoned: On 2d December. he was again
examined in the presence of Holdah Clark, the
mother of the child, who recognized Mr. Tutty or Morris as being in the neighborhood at
the time the child disappeared, who went off
about the same time. About the time of this
last examination a man was seen in the vicinity
of Natchez with a child answering the description of the one lost, but who upon Tutty's arrest, suddenly disappeared, carrying off the
child. Tutty, on a subsequent occasion, confessed to the examining magistrate, that on the
day of arrest the child was in the vicinity, and
that he was to have gotten it, and delivered it
to the parents, all of which would have been
done, had he not have been arrested.

Upon the whole, there is strong reason to
believe that the child was in the vicinity of
Natchez at the arrest of Tutty, and that the
man having it made his escape; and from motives of dread and alarm, put it on shore, and
abandoned it at Alexandria. Morgan was said
to be the man's name at Natchez: Morgan was
the name of him who abandoned the child at
Alexandria. From the disappearance of Morgan at Natchez, to the finding of the child at
Alexandria, there was a space of sixteen months,
coinciding with the account given by the person who found it.

H. T.
[Natchez Statesman.