Show I 1 I STOP BOYS BOY'S BOYS BOY'S Driven From Franl Home by Cruel Stepfather Lad Falls Fals Into Piece of Luck ON Vv WAY A Y TO SEE HIS AUNT Mother liet n flies Dies Lea Loa In vi mig I tl I lie ii o Von Youngster ICI lu lo Shi I Tor rm he lie loh Whole Family I Baltimore Mel Md April 2 25 With hl hll anti and lila his face hair fearfully matted malted maled hal and ond hands haMS ilmy timy with dirt ri John Gray a 0 eyed bright year 15 boy who said sid Jast night that 11 lie he ran oa away from hi his home borne In St. St S1 Louis Louts about welts ago because hl tired three w eS 4 of iii the abuse heaped upon him by uy hl his I stepfather whom lie he hl declared In- In li had h. I supported was locked Incited up at the thc Cen Cen- Central Central tl police station last nJ night ht charged with attempting to steal a ride on a northbound wih freight train The watch watch- at the noticed the lie little ruan j-ruan yards of oC crawlIng crawlIng crawl crawl- fellow as s he was In the hue act Ing into a an nn Wa empty empt freight car nr and amid calling Ing an nn officer ordered his arrest When hien hen the little hittie fellow was wa carried tumid ii to tu ii into t c uc station house houR h he lie ts him antI and the lie patrolman that arre arrested tet wh cant can't let ll a n feller fel CI It said aid Gee why yet yer yet You travel ler Jer lone Ione when he wants tu to I to get dont don't know how anxious Jt out of ot di Us town cause Its It's hard fora for a to lo Itt little do do cM chap like tee me to to set get anything What t Is your youit nal name young muLe man nUL asked acting Lieutenant Forrest John Gray 11 replied the youth youth- ful oh prisoner Where do 0 you live Ive John asked 1 I he officer South Broadway St. St Louis u the boy Calls Culs In lii Matron At that the Lieutenant got ot out of or orth th the chair chali chai and walking around the tho railing looked the boy over from head to foot foot Ringing flinging for or the matr-j-i matr he said sid Take ake this bo boy up UI stairs and amiI let him wash wah his face race and hands and amid and then 8 send nc him down ler here as s s I want to hav have a talk taIls tal with him In a a few tew seconds the little fellow was a back an and the flue wash wah had com com- transformed him Stantin Standing before the Lieutenant was one of or the brightest looking little lite chaps chalS able Now v youngster tell me who who you ou left kIt lf home said Fait the lieutenant Well Tell Wel Y you m see it iwas was li dis way ay My y WI witch when J i 1 was jest Jes a Hl mile little I baby baly and amil ant until I was old enough to lo About work my ny mother supported me true four Cour years ago m my mother married again and short shortly after afler aCeT my stepfather er ai 41 commenced to tn 1 Ireat mo cruelly He lie le 0 would nuver inver bout bent bot mo when hol mother was St 1 t because sIte alto II would not tint notT T thue sho ho has hag run rum hib him hInt and anti caught the tho blow that wits was Intended for fOI mo me About eight months mouths ago my mother moth moth- er or died ie I Had HUl mud t to o Support Pa Family in I ly At this thus Juncture the little fellows fellow's YeS eyes es f filled led with wih teal tears Previous to that however er he continued continued con con- my ny father gave up UI his lulus position IOSi- IOSi tion and I r had to support the family tami tam rain i ill ily with wih the exception of the lie small sinai amount of or money my molher made I by washing I r did not mind working su a u long as mother lived antI and would turn Un every er cent I made malre over oyer to lo her hem he Afler AHN her hN death however howver m my stepfather would take lake every evemy penny penn I made made and ant If I 1 h lucid held back lack anything would beat heat 1 lute me Some weeks eks I r would h be so weak weale from hunger that Ihal I could hardly stand A About bout three weeks ago ago T I 1 lel- lel lr bored that I had hail an nit aunt in New Nets York and ant decided to lo go SO lo to her I left lef St. St St Louis wih with just 4 40 ii I cents In m my pocket mu and a after aftem- I beating my way on eu J freight t trains mins and anti begging something to lo eat eaf eafon ealon on cli the tIme thea a way arrived all d In II this ci city cily wih 15 5 cents Sa Say a Teller ele cant can't get noth ing lug to do 10 0 in this burg I hung around the banana boats boat living on bananas and amI sleeping sleeping on oit the lie wharf at nights I aint hard hardly hind hall a meal nights simico mother molher died about eight months ago I Hot Ill Acting Lieutenant Forrest has boys o of hi his own s-i s and mid tal taking ll money from remit his pocket ol ordered erell a lint hut meal for 11 Ihn un Ind kid In iii speaking of nf it H afterward that thol saul lint thal it I him good to tl see ce the little hittle fellow eat and amid ali that thal nev novem nov nov- ei em- in flu his life hall hail he lie I seen scon an oJe ap tip all enjoy a a. meal so 0 much flinch After Afler the lie little chap had hind eaten es ti tl o h Juts is hearts hearts content nn 8 Sergeant Ian l Foi rest ini o of f Mm hint In iii an au ordinary cell col sent him upstairs tion mu hall hail hll where th the r maton rutt- rutt a- a ton prepared t a room 1001 for hint him the lie linen oh oil the bed heir 01 being h white He that hunt gee gee said the tho little chap chap Is he s where I am s-lilt going to o sleep sleep- I Kinder Kind Kind- ind er 41 looks like tho Ito cot I used J. J lo to 1 n hn at home b before Core my toy mother t tiled died tip at he 11 a on his face lie said tot you Is but all dis right is great vl 5 In Iii a ut few minutes the he little fi fellow W ivas fast asleep omit from the ut ilus-ut was tas on hits his face he lit was earning It-earning of everything If tim in iii St. St Louis Lotus |