Show I Police Interrupt Journey of Small Boy on the Way to Mother i WORKED AS MESSENGER AND SAVED MONEY TO BUY TICKET ALL THE WAY TO TENNESSEE Bryan Alexander a l lad was taken from the Los Angeles Lim Limited LimIted train at noon yesterday by Patrol Patrolmen Patrolmen men en Clough and Pierce on Information received from the boys father at San Bernardino Cal and is being held at the police pollee station awaiting the arrival of California officers to take the boy back home The police pollee received a telegram Tues day asking them to tp look out for the boy as they believed bellev d that he had been The boy was found on the train by the two officers but had n t been He told the officers that he was on his way to see his mother at Martin Tenn and the conductor of the train showed the officers the boy had a railroad ticket to that point The boy told the police he had been working as a messenger boy at Red Redlands Redlands Redlands lands Cal and had earned enough money to buy a ticket to his former home in Martin Tenn He said he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not told his father he was going From his hi story It appears that the boys mother and father separated about two years ago The father left his home in inthe inthe inthe the south and went to California tak taking takIng taking ing his two sons with him The boy said I 1 dont want to go goback goback goback back to father I want to be with mother Instructions were received re elved by the of officers officers officers last night to hold the boy b y until the arrival of the officer from California to take charge of him The boy does not want to go back but the th police pollee are powerless to act even though they should like to see the lad safe sate on his way to his mothers side |