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---- -- --_ TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1927 ION of BEST STRIPS - Richmond, Va., Oct. uv --Two Virginia children, Willie apd Georgie Muse of Roanoke, m selng for many years and 'alleged to have been h in virtual slavery for the last four and a half years with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey com- Mata shows, were discovered hy elr parents with the circus an have been restored to their home, . This was disclosed here after an attachment suit for $100,000 was ed against the circus in Richmond. @ children were exhibited as Yfreaks" and called 'Ambassadors from Mars," according to the bill, Mrs, Harriet Muse, mother of the children, had heen seaching for them in vain for years, enlisting the ald of humane societies and social agencies, said the petition, Strolling into a side show when | the circus was in Roanoke last Fri- = : 7 day, she was startled to see her twa Tor 3 Wm, da mT Reg U § Par OF; Copvushy 1971) sons standing on the stage with : - Mdigliditid i i , by Merropolitan Newspaper Servi? other exhibits, They recognized her. y There was a dramatic reunion, ae- eording to the story told in court here. From that moment circus life for the two young pepole ended. They joined their mother and ran away home. j The petition was filed here by T, W. Messick, Roanoke, attorney, It is {| an attachment suit, and it claims] $50,000 each as just compensation for the 'hoys' years of circus life. ey received no pay whatever, al- though they were 'great attractions," it'is 'alleged. f "The attachment summons was séfved upon circus officials during a' performance, It is said to have im- posed a lien upon the property of the show pending court adjudication, |; t "Ambassadors From Mars" i No complete description of the || two boys alleged to have been dis- played as freaks since early in 1883 bi embodidd in the legal papers on file here, but gircus posters still bear lired paintings of the "Ambassadors m' Mars." They depict two hairy individuals with eyes and ears and bodies supposed to resemble those v bys. Faurn w i of inhabitants of the neighboring v rye For rere : ae Great Britain rights reserw planet. . ; »' A 'man named Stokes lured the hypothers away to the circus when || they were little, and later they were |! put into the custody of Herman Shelton, manager of the circus, the bill charges. They followed the regu- 1dr rounds of the circus, living with the people of the side shows, skipping overnight from one town to an- other: All' the while, it is said, they longed for their mother and seareh- ed crowds which viewed them daily || he, 80 HILIS Fre IN CHINA 0 RL BRINGING UP FATHER ii / VEL CIT AWAY ALL RIGHT -V'LL DIG A TUNNEL AN' COME QUT ABOUT A MILE FROM. HERE! © 1927 ey Int. Feature Service, Inc. { TELLING TOMMY THE FIRST MACHINE | MACHINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ICE IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES. DR JOHN GORRIE OF FLORIDA INVENTED aid ola | jf BUT I GUESS MOTHER TOLD HIMA LOT Sag Rf: wadiomics |) [{ OF THINGS WHEN HE FORGOT TO EMPTY WAS MADE BY DR THEIR NONES TOPRESERVET. ~~ 1 THE PAN UNDER THE ICE -BOX WHO INVENTED tor her familiar face.| They were unable to read or write' and so had never been able to communicate with their mother. | They were unable even to read the THE FIRST ICE 1775, TOMMY, MAKING MACHINE, WILLIAM CULLEN, IN im 7 WN I if p/ gi re DADDY mgme 2m the Roanoke station when 5 the circus arrived there. - The petition implies the children had not even learned They were in Roanoke when the tents were pitch- ed there. But they continued to stare at upturned faces in search of their mother. 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