National Affairs: Fine Boy's Return

At 4 o'clock one morning last week, just before he was going out to milk his cows, John Bonifas, a chicken farmer of Issaquah, Wash., heard a knock on his door. He opened it and there stood a dishevelled child wrapped in a dirty white blanket.

"I'm the little boy who was kidnapped," said 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser (TIME, June 3). "I want to go home."

Farmer Bonifas and his large family took George in, fed him, dried his stockings, gave him a pair of girl's shoes. Then Farmer Bonifas got out his old automobile, drove George to the telephone office at Renton....

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