Charlotte Observer
Julius C. Dellinger, 57, of Bradentown, Fla., who for the last score or more of years has been trying to ascertain his identity and locate relatives, is in Charlotte and will go this morning to the family reunion at Rock Springs, where he hopes to meet persons who might be of assistance in finding these kinsmen.
Mr. Dellinger wrote to local police last December from Palma Solo, Fla., to enlist the assistance of Chief Orr and his force. At that time he knew himself only as William McHale.
Since that date Mr. Dellinger has been in correspondence with a number of persons in this section, and believes now that he has established his identity as the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Dellinger of Statesville and who was kidnapped November 20, 1870.
The Mr. McHale, alias Halle, McFalen and Falen, who, it is alleged kidnapped the Dellinger child, eloped with Mary Jane Cathcart who ran away from her widowed mother at Davidson.
At Belton, Ga., where McHade (McHale?) is said to have first taken the Dellinger boy, Mr. Dellinger said that he obtained information as to his identity but that he was unable to follow this up. In Alabama and in Texas he found other traces of his ancestry.
Mr. Dellinger’s parents, L.D. Dellinger and Ann McCall were married in 1862 in Lincoln county.
Julius Dellinger was born June 12, 1867, and lived with is parents at Statesville until November 20, 1870, when he was kidnapped.
Mr. Dellinger, who is visiting here at the home of a cousin, Mrs. Alex Little, 307 South Church street, has written an average of 100 letters a month for the last six months in an effort to locate his kinsmen, he said yesterday.
From the front page of the Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, Aug. 7, 1924
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