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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Laughli
n Quarry - 8 March 1921
By: Akoya Date: August 8, 2020, 4:34 pm
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On March 8, 1921, the remains of a boy were found floating in a
pond near the O'Laughlin Stone Company in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Authorities estimated he was between five and seven years old.
He had blond hair, brown eyes and a tooth missing from his lower
jaw. He had been struck with a blunt instrument.
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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1377UMWI - Unidentified Male
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the
O'Laughlin Quarry - 8 March 1921 1377UMWI2 LITTLE LORD
FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Laughlin Quarry - 8
March 1921 1377UMWI LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found
floating in the O'Laughlin Quarry - 8 March 1921 1377UMWI1
Sketch of the victim; Clothing worn by the victim; Victim's
headstone
Date of Discovery: March 8, 1921
Location of Discovery: Waukesha, Wisconsin
Estimated Date of Death: Up to several months prior
State of Remains: Unknown
Cause of Death: Homicide
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 5-7 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 3'6"
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Identifiers
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: He was well dressed in good quality clothes: Patent
leather shoes with cloth tops, gray Bradley sweater, underwear
(size 6), light blouse, and black lightweight stockings. No
overcoat was located.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Discovery
The body of the young boy was found floating in the O'Laughlin
Quarry (now Waukesha Lime and Stone). He had been struck in the
head before being thrown into the water.
About five weeks before the body was found, a man and woman in
an automobile stopped and asked an employee of the quarry if
anyone had seen a young boy. The woman was crying and wearing a
red coat. The couple was never heard from again.
He was laid out for viewing in the funeral home and a $1000
reward was offered in efforts to identify him.
The boy was dubbed "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and was laid to rest
in the Prairie Home Cemetery.
Police investigated whether the body was that of Homer Lemay.
Lemay's father stated that the child had been killed in a car
accident after being taken to South America by acquantances who
had adopted him. Investigators could find no record of Homer
Lemay being killed in South America.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Waukesha Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 262-524-3762
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: Unknown
NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: Not listed
Information Source(s)
Wikipedia - Little Lord Fauntleroy
Find a Grave
Unsolved in the News
Milwaukee Sentinel News Archive - April 15, 1949
Admin Notes
Added: 1/27/10; Last Updated: 5/26/17
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy is the nickname for an unidentified
American boy found murdered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1921.
On March 8, 1921, the remains of a boy were found floating in a
pond near the O'Laughlin Stone Company in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Authorities estimated he was between five and seven years old.
He had blond hair, brown eyes and a tooth missing from his lower
jaw. He had been struck with a blunt instrument. The boy could
have been in the water for several months. He was dressed in a
gray sweater, Munsing underwear, black stockings, a blouse and
leather shoes; the clothing quality suggested the child was from
an affluent family.[1][2]
Police displayed his body at a local funeral home, trying to
identify him; no one claimed the body. The boy was buried on
March 17, 1921.
An employee of the O'Laughlin company said he had been
approached by a couple five weeks before the body was found. The
woman, who wore a red sweater, asked if he'd seen a young boy in
the area. She was reportedly crying. The man accompanying her
was seen watching the area where the child was located. They
later left in a Ford vehicle and have never been found.[1][2]
A possible scenario for the case is that Little Lord Fauntleroy
may have been abducted from a wealthy family in another location
and disposed of somewhere else to prevent his identification.
After the investigation halted, money was raised by a local
woman, Minnie Conrad, for the child to be buried at the Prairie
Home cemetery, in Waukesha.[1][4] She was later buried in the
same cemetery in 1940 after she died at the age of
seventy-three.[5]
There were sightings of a woman, wearing a heavy veil, who would
occasionally place flowers on the boy's grave. Some have
speculated that this woman knew the actual identity of Little
Lord Fauntleroy
In 1949, a medical examiner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin suggested
that investigators felt there may have been a connection between
the unidentified boy and Homer Lemay, a six-year-old who
disappeared around the same time the child died. Lemay was said
by his father, Edmond, to have died in a vehicle accident during
a trip to South America when he was being cared for by family
friends (described as the "Nortons"), but there was no existing
record of his death. Edmond Lemay stated that he learned of his
son's death after receiving information from a South American
newspaper that detailed the accident. He also was accused of
falsifying his wife's signature while she was missing, but was
later found not guilty. Detectives were unable to find any
information about such an event or even the existence of the two
Nortons.
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the
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Homer Lemay was speculated to be the identity of Little Lord
Fauntleroy
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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By: Akoya Date: August 8, 2020, 4:43 pm
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"Little Lord Fauntleroy"
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the
O'Laughlin Quarry - 8 March 1921
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Sketch of the victim
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Born 1914 - 1916 (approximate)
Status Unidentified for 96 years, 8 months and 5 days
Died Autumn 1920 to February 1921 (aged 5 - 7)
Cause of death Homicide by blunt-force trauma
Body discovered March 8, 1921
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Resting place Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wisconsin
Height 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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Who Is Little Lord Fauntleroy? Twitter Thinks "Dear David" Is
Connected To This Historical Unsolved Murder
By LUCIA PETERS, Nov 30 2017
One of the prevailing questions about the ongoing Twitter saga
of Dear David has been exactly who David is and what he wants.
In a response to the latest Dear David update, though, Twitter
user @johnlockedz put forth an interesting theory: That Dear
David is connected to the Little Lord Fauntleroy murder. Who is
Little Lord Fauntleroy? Long story short, he was the victim of a
real, historical, unsolved murder — and some folk think there
are enough similarities between Little Lord Fauntleroy and Dear
David to be of interest. There’s a lot we don’t know about the
Little Lord Fauntleroy murder, but here’s what we do know: On
March 8, 1921, a terrible discovery was made near what was then
called the O'Laughlin Quarry in Waukesha, Wisconsin: The body of
a small boy floated in a nearby pond. Estimated to be between
around 5 and 7 years old, the boy was white, about three feet
and six inches tall, and blond haired and brown eyed. He wore
good quality clothing; he had been clad in a blouse or button-up
shirt, a gray sweater from the Bradley Knitting Company,
underwear, black stockings, and patent leather shoes. No one
knew who he was. Because of his clothing, he became known as
Little Lord Fauntleroy — a nod to the Frances Hodgson Burnett
novel of the same name — and he’s still known as that today: His
murder has never been solved, and no one ever stepped forward to
claim him. Although he was eventually interred in the Prairie
Home Cemetery in Waukesha, his headstone bears no name; it reads
only, “Unknown Boy Found In O’Laughlin Quarry, Waukesha, Wis.
March 8, 1921.” Although initially it was believed that the boy
had drowned, the coroner’s examination revealed that he had been
struck on the head with a blunt object; what’s more, there
wasn’t nearly enough water in his lungs for his death to have
occurred by drowning. Indeed, notes The Line-Up, he may have
been killed first, then thrown into the pond afterwards. He may
also have been in the pond for several months before being
discovered. It’s possible that he had been kidnapped from a
wealthy family who lived elsewhere and killed after a failed
attempt at extortion — an idea that we’ll talk about a little
more in just a bit — but that theory has never been
substantiated. Beyond that, though, everything else the
investigation dug up turned up to be dead ends. According to the
Doe Network’s page on the case, an employee of the quarry said
that about five weeks before Fauntleroy’s discovery, a man and a
woman arrived at the employee by car, got out, and asked if
anyone had seen a small boy; the woman, who was wearing a red
coat, appeared to be visibly upset. However, the couple was
never located — and although police later received a tip that
the woman had died by suicide in the pond where the boy was
found, according to The Line-Up, efforts to drag the pond for
remains came up empty. Additionally, the owner of a local
department store claimed that the boy’s clothing had been
purchased at his store a few months prior, although there was no
way to determine who had purchased them; and later, a man in
Chicago claimed the boy to be his nephew who had been kidnapped
by his sister’s ex-husband. Neither lead came to anything, and
an identification was never made. Not even the offer of a reward
— first $250, then $1,000 (about $13,478.85 in today’s currency)
— led to any useful information. A local woman named Minnie
Conrad took it upon herself to spearhead a fundraising effort to
give the boy a funeral, and on March 14, 1921, he was buried in
a white casket in the Prairie Home Cemetery. “Who that boy was,
who were his parents, what joy, if any, there was at his birth,
what gifts were showered upon him or his mother, no one knew,”
read a newspaper article commemorating the funeral published in
theWaukesha Freeman on March 17, 1921. “Somewhere, some place,
perhaps, is the mother and some other place, perhaps is the
father. No one envies them the burden lying upon their
conscience. Public spirited and kind-hearted people — men of low
and high [unintelligible] and even poor working girls out of
work generously contributed to the fund that made the simple
funeral possible.” Conrad laid a bouquet at the boy's grave
every year until her death. In 1949, a Milwaukee medical
examiner put forth a new theory about Little Lord Fauntleroy’s
identity: That he was Homer Lemay, a six-year-old boy from
Milwaukee who had disappeared around the same time that Little
Lord Fauntleroy was discovered. According to Edmond Lemay —
Homer’s father — Homer’s mother had died of tuberculosis in
1919, after which the boy had been left with a couple called
Norton. Lemay said the Nortons had taken Homer on a trip to
South America, where he had died in a car crash — something
which Lemay said he only found out about via a newspaper
article. However, no record of the death was ever uncovered;
what’s more, police investigators never turned up any evidence
that the Nortons existed in the first place. Could the little
boy found floating in the pond have been Homer Lemay? Perhaps
killed by his father? We still don’t know, and we likely never
will. It was suggested in 1949 that the body of Little Lord
Fauntleroy be exhumed for further examination, but this
suggestion was shot down and he was left in peace. Some folks,
though, remain thoroughly convinced that Fauntleroy was actually
Homer Lemay. For the curious, this is Homer: So: How does all
of this connect to Dear David? To behonest, I find the link
somewhat tenuous; although Twitter user @johnlockedz pointed in
a follow-up tweetto “the blond hair, the leather shoes, the blow
to the head” as eerie similarities, I find them too vague to be
convince. First off, we've never received any information about
David’s hair color; what’s more, Adam Ellis had previously
written that David had told him in a dream that he had died
after a shelf in a store fell on him — which isn’t at all the
same thing as being struck on the head with a blunt object, as
it appears to have happened to Fauntleroy. Yes, both incidents
would have resulted in a dented head; and yes, David said that
the shelf had been pushed (that is, it hadn't simply fallen on
its own); but the damage caused by, say, someone swinging a
baseball bat at your head versus having something huge fall on
you would likely be quite different. I don’t think this
particular link is strong enough to say for sure that Fauntleroy
is David. What’s more, other Twitter users pointed out one very
important fact: That the boy called Fauntleroy was found in
Wisconsin, while Dear David’s activity has been occurring in New
York. This doesn’t mean that it’s impossible that David could be
Fauntleroy; as Twitter user @birbbbbbs observed in another
response, “Look at this, it says that he may have been taken
from a wealthy family. Had he been taken from a wealthy family
it's very likely it could have been a New York family.” However,
I’d argue that that, too, is a pretty big leap to make. Although
it’s certainly a possibility, I don’t necessarily think it’s
very likely that Fauntleroy could have been from New York —
after all, the United States is a big place, and even in 1921,
wealthy people came from a wide variety of locations. Consider,
for example, two actual leads from the case: One of them linked
the case to Chicago, while the other linked it to Milwaukee —
both large cities who had their share of wealthy citizens, and
both of which are a heck of a lot closer to Waukesha than New
York is. And as for the shoe? Well, without knowing anymore
about the shoe, we can’t say much about it — but for what it's
worth, the one Ellis found doesn’t look like it’s patent leather
to me. Patent leather — which is what Little Lord Fauntleroy’s
shoes were made of — is known for its high-shine, glossy finish,
and even allowing for it getting scuffed with age… well, the
shoe Ellis found just looks like regular leather to me. That’s
conjecture on my part, though, so it’s always possible that I’m
wrong. Ultimately, I’m not convinced that Dear David is Little
Lord Fauntleroy (or meant to be Little Lord Fauntleroy, as the
case may be — remember, I’m also of the belief that the Dear
David story is a piece of fiction); the case is still
interesting, though, and it’s still enormously sad that it’s
never been solved. In the meantime, here’s hoping we do
eventually get to the bottom of Dear David.
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Waukesha, Wisconsin
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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Waukesha Lime & Stone Co.
W233N507, Redford Blvd, Waukesha, WI 53188
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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W233N507 Redford Blvd
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Re: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY: WM, 4-6, found floating in the O'Lau
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