----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Wheat To: TnGibson@worldnet.att.net Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 6:22 AM Subject: Gibson Co.-related article, 1892 Hello, Vicki.... I found the article below in the Dallas Herald yesterday, and thought it might be of help to someone in Gibson County. Regards, Jim Wheat Garland, Texas Stole His Own Child. MILAN, Tenn., Nov. 30.-Some months since, R. S. Macon and wife, of this county, agreed to separate and divide the property. In the mutual agreement, signed and acknowledged, the wife was given the custody of their only child, a boy of 3 years. Macon disposed of his possessions with the intention of leaving for California. He went to visit his wife, ostensibly to bid her farewell. When he started to leave, he snatched the child in his arms and fled down the road, followed by the frantic mother, who was unable to overtake him. On her applying for assistance, an officer was sent in pursuit of the abductor, but the latter made good his escape. - November 30, 1892, Dallas [Tex.] Daily Times Herald, p. 5.