d the
scouts, gathered about Roy, peered over his shoulders and read it
eagerly.

MILLIONAIRE HARRINGTON'S SON KIDNAPPED

ALARM SENT OUT FOR CHILD MISSING MORE THAN WEEK

TRAIN HAND GIVES CLEW

Police authorities throughout the country have been asked to search
for Anthony Harrington, Jr., the little son of Anthony Harrington,
banker, of New York. The child, aged about ten, disappeared about a
week ago and since then an exhaustive search privately made has
failed to yield any clew of the little fellow's whereabouts.

When last seen the child was playing on the lawn of his father's
beautiful estate at Irvington-on-Hudson on Friday a week ago. From
that time no trace of him has been discovered.

The only bit of information suggesting a possible clew comes from
Walter Hanlon, a trainman who told the authorities yesterday that on
an afternoon about a week ago his attention was drawn to a child
accompanied by two men leaving his train at Catskill Landing.
Hanlon's train was northbound. He reported what he had seen as soon
as the public alarm was given.

Hanlon said that he noticed the child, a boy, as he helped the
little fellow down the car steps, because of an open jack-knife
which the youngster carried, and which he good-naturedly advised him
to close before he stumbled with it. To the best of Hanlon's
recollection the little fellow wore a mackinaw jacket, but he did
not notice this in particular. It is known that the child wore a
sweater when he disappeared.

Hanlon paid no attention to the child's companions and his
recollection of their appearance is hazy. He says that the three
disappeared in the crowd and he thought they joined the throng which
was waiting for the northbound boat of the Hudson River Day Line. If
such was the case, the authorities believe that the party left the
train and continued northward by boat in hopes of baffling the
authorities.

One circumstance which lends considerable color to Hanlon's
statement is the positive assurance of the child's parents that
their son had no jack-knife of any description. This, therefore, may
mean that the child was not the Harrington child at all, or on the
other hand, it may mean, what seams likely, that the men gave the
little fellow a jack-knife as a bribe to accompany them. Hanlon
thinks that the knif