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Show Sf)N CONFINED TO VERITABLE FURNACE BY SUN WORSHIPERS Inhuman Parents Keep Son a Prisoner in Yard, Every Afternoon for Three Years, Weighted with Ball and Chain. i Chicago. Charged with confining his ton-year-old son at tho ond of a nine-foot ball and chain In a sun-beaten sun-beaten courtyard In order that tho boy might ovcntunlly prove an acceptab'.o sacrifice to the sun god ho worships, James Uoesrup, of West Forty-seventh street, was arrested by Capt. Clancy, of tho Stock Yards station. According to tho story told Capt. Clancy by tho boy, evory aftornoon i i C$C2m9ES -j' & Xi;Ti&irssissss1 v7" j He Was Attached to a Ball and Chain - and Cruelly Deaten. for tho last thrco or four years, on his roturn from school, lie has been tnkon to a stockado In the rear of his homo and there locked up. Once In tho stockade, tho llttlo follow has been attached at-tached by tho waist to a heavy chain, nt tho end of which Is n C0-pound ball, nnd from early In tho afternoon until sundown ho hns been compollcd to romaln In captivity. Onco ho ran nwny from his parents but was recaptured and given oxtra Imprisonment nnd sovoral sovcro thrashings as a result of his dlsobo-dleiLo. dlsobo-dleiLo. 4Bstocknlo In tho rear of tho IBBY homo Ib surrounded by a BYiout 10 feet In height It Is Bw any movnblo object, and 0--IBris covered with grave). In ono BB7 Is n small outhouse, roofed with tBBd gravel. It Is so arranged that tBlUoruoon sun may blazo down 'issBBsm' ABBlltlon to tho natural difficulties of scaling a wall 16 feet In holght, tho boy hns never beon allowod to roam at liberty within tho stockado. To hla waist has been fastened tho mlddlo of a chain, mado of heavy cast iron, tho ends of which are fastened to a bull weighing G5 or CO pounds. Tho attention of tho pollco was called to tho treatment of tho boy by those living In tho neighborhood, who told Cnpt. Clancy that tho cries of tho child could bu heard In the adjoining houses, although, on account of thu high wall, It was Impossible to seo what was Iwlng done with him. Mamie Rynn, n nc.xtdoor nulghbor, told tho oincers that on ono of tho hottest days thlR summer her curiosity curios-ity prompted her to look through n chink In the wall. Sho saw thu llttlo boy lying apparently appar-ently oveicomu by tho bent on tho top of tho nuthouse. Tho ball and chain woro attached to his wnlst, and for tnoro than half an hour ho lay without shifting his position. Then his father enmo from tho Iiouso with n pall of water In his hand. Ho threw tho contents over thu prostrate pros-trate boy nud, without waiting to seo whether ho recovered or not, returned I to tho house. Tho pollco hnvo learned that, In addition to using tho stockndo for tho purposo of Inflicting punishment on his son, Uoesrup each wook conducted services within Its walls. On Sunday mornings nnd nt othor times tho family fam-ily would bo brought out, anil Uoesrup, mounting a soap box, would explain tho tenets of his faith. During these dissertations his congregation con-gregation consisted of his son, hla daughter nnd his wife, nil of wnom woro compelled to kneol on tho ground while- tho service wns In progress. Mrs. Uoesrup and tho daughter, Melon, 17 yenrs old, would not toll tho pollco tho nature of these sorvlces. Tho boy Is too young to understand tho full Import of tho Incantntlons uttered ut-tered by his father, but stated to Capt Clancy that frequent reforenco was mado to tho sun, and that his father on many occasions talked with tho greatest rovoronco of tho powor of tho sun. "Wo would nil go out In tho haclc yard on Sunday mornings," snld tho boy to Capt Clancoy, "and fathor would gut up on n soap box. Tho rest of us would kneel on tho grnvol. It I wns vury hot, but not so bad as In tho -nftornoons, when I would bo in thoro alono. "Fnther would tnlk a tot about tho sun 'and how It gavo us light and llfo and a lot of othor things, but I couldn't understand It nil. He niways looked at tho sun whon ho wns praying." |
