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Dateline 1979 — Missing his hugs, but not his arms
Few heartbreaking stories can merit such a twist of an ending. But you must realize that Colga and Coria were young males less than 3 years old, and someone had kidnapped them in Jackson County. They often played and fought in the dust, and everyone who saw them loved them (or said they did). Tearfully, said the news account, their guardians pleaded, “We have raised them for two and one-half years. You get attached, you know. So if the abductor will just leave our little ones at the corner, no charges will be pressed.” They might have added, “Don’t hug them goodbye, because our young boa constrictors might twist your arms — especially the six-foot one.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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