News Article, Alice Toney

TONEY

Posted By: Earle & Pat (email)
Date: 11/3/2001 at 21:44:16

Subject: News Article, Alice Toney
Date: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:22 PM

Rocky Mountain News Tuesday Jan. 28, 1947
DENVER BABY GIRL LOST IN HILLS DIES FROM EXPOSURE
The tragic end of three-year-old Alice Toney's adventurous hike in the
mountains was disclosed yesterday when the frozen body of the yellow haired
child was found huddled
in the snow west of Boulder. Grim-lipped searchers had been hunting for
Alice through out the night, ever since she had wandered away from her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Toney, 3275 W. 65th Ave., Adams County.
The family, including five other children had gone to a mine cabin near
Sugar Loaf Mountain, 11 miles west of Boulder, Sheriff Arthur Everson said.
FATHER SENT HER TO GET WARMER CLOTHING
Alice, dressed only in a pair of light jeans and a sweater, decided to
explore the mountainous country outside the cabin. She ran over to her
father, who was unloading mining machinery from a truck with John Bosko, his
partner in a gold mining operation at the site. Mr. Toney noticed that the
child was not dressed for standing in the sharp mountain air. "Run back to
the cabin and put some more clothes on or you'll catch cold," he warned her.
Alice left the truck, but she didn't go back to the cabin. Apparently the
lure of exploring the wooded area all by herself was too much for her. She
disappeared into the trees surrounding the cabin, unnoticed by anyone.
MOTHER DISCOVERS CHILD 1S MISSING
Some time later, Mrs. Toney became worried about the child and went out to
the truck to check on her whereabouts. It was not until then that Mr. Toney
discovered she had not gone back to the cabin.
The worried parents began a search immediately, covering the area around the
cabin, calling for Alice to come back. Finally they realized they needed
help and called Sheriff Everson. He rounded -up more than 200 volunteers for
the search.
LITTLE BODY FOUND MILE AND A HALF AWAY.
Early yesterday morning, a search party led by Under sheriff Donald Moore
and Deputy Donald Teegarden found the child's body huddled in a clump of
underbrush, on a hillside a mile and a half away from the mine. Alice
apparently had not been able to find her way back to the cabin and had
wandered further and further up the hillside, the searchers said. Her
plight was increased when snow began to fall. Tracks showed that she had
crawled more than 15 feet into the bushes before collapsing. She apparently
had died before midnight.
Her parents collapsed when searchers brought the word down the mountainside
that the child, who would have been three in March was dead.

Earle & Pat Koeble
http://www.koeble.org

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