| Show ta K 2 e g T ia aaa aa T 1 ne il ro a a As related by robert turn er now awaiting trial in the county prison these articles of which one will appear each wee week until completed are not written in ill it a spirit of bravado bea vado but rather as C an 1111 object lesson to all ail young 0 o ung boys who contemplate leaving home CHAPTER IV after my arrival home 1 was treated a with tile the usual kindness by my iny mother she lift had d begged maso often to stay at homo and qu w i atra ye ii r gad feiY 1 mo keone ta more inore trip rip it and told her so SI she I 1 ei said that I 1 wouldga would gp go anyway so there any use of objecting I 1 took this as an all answer and packing my little lit bundle left for the RR yards by this tin s time ti in I 1 lad had grown so aed to leaf beat ill ing my illy way hesitate boride bo ride on oil the first tiling thing 1 hat came caine along on oil enteria entering the yard I 1 saw an all engine coming along flying the lags of it a special slie she stopped a few minutes to take water and I 1 climbed onto th alie pilot commonly called ct tile the cowcatcher I 1 lad never ridden in such a dangerous place beforehand before and talk about speed we just seemed to hit the high places and I 1 was avas very glad to get olf oil when we stop ped for water avater some time kinle later when they started again I 1 gota board the tender and soon arrived in centreville Oen Cen treville tile destination of ane special being 0 very tired I 1 soon found it a good sleeping t place and slept till daylight when I 1 awoke I 1 was very hungry and in sta stated staged ted out to fi find nd something to eat I 1 soon found a place and they gave nic me my lily breakfast for which I 1 thanked them after staying around town a good part of tile day and a getting acquainted with some of th law boys I 1 went down to the yards to to con oil dinue on my illy way I 1 caught a passenger train just leaving ev ary ry time the tr train ain stopped the on ductor inductor would put off some sonie fellow ow ablio like myself was stealing ing a ride but lie never found folind tile me for foi I 1 was riding the trucks I 1 t arrived I 1 ari v ed in ill louisville Loui avillo but dicing stay ion long I 1 worked my way to cincinnati 0 on one of the riv ri v 2 er oats boats and till from there went to pittsburgh pa stopping only long enough to get food froma there I 1 went to aulinh and wd wan nearly frozen to death I 1 went to philadelphia from there and got ajob a job selling tickets forthe for the barn i um bailey circus 1 I stayed i wit them until tile the following followill spring and ands saved aved i nearly 1 I left them at bridgeport Co conn lill and made my way to new or leans and while there wits was rob robbed beil of my lily purse so I 1 was again corn polled to beat my lily way wa on oil tile the I 1 wily way out of town I 1 met it a fellows fellow and lie he proposed that we ve t travel together so I 1 assented well we wd framed fr up lip a 4 deal to get money 1 I wits was to play the part of a afandi dc deaf andl x dumb boy andee and lie the role of a crippled miner we we wore were ver very I 1 Y successful until one lay day I 1 in made a d e it a blunder it happened happen bd in thit thi wity way one Ohe day I 1 started wit out t to play my part as usual and stop ped ilta at a house which had ill all the 06 e lie ab dafid weal avea W f ahm t i 17 wl PUT little i W t M girl 91 i cometo the if s door and tooksie took me into the ho bouso q j to her father fa ther who show showed ed me jim to the bathroom and intimated blia t breakfast would soon be ready ret a dy after the morning meal lie he to took 0 k me to a clothing store which nt in himself owned and signed to tile mo to out an all outfit and go and change ci I 1 edid did s so 0 but when I 1 got back instead of writing on oil paper my illy thanks I 1 blundered it out to ilin him you should have seen seeli his I 1 I 1 is face when lie realized roal izod how lie had been fooled fo led I 1 started to run lie h e i after nie me but I 1 dodged him and got away alright alrig lit I 1 and alli found my lily pal and we caught a 11 train out of town while on oil our way lie suddenly slipped and fer fell getting his right 1 pg out cut off I 1 got off and we went lit back to him we W e flagged the next train tr in and I 1 s saw hin him safely to toa in an hospital li I 1 started on oil my lily wits was again a and n 1 I went to california Cali fornitI there I 1 bo gan gaii to think ink about mother ha and resolved to return home lio me again i was vason on my way back when I 1 was arrested on the trumped up lip charge of grand larceny L at lynn what will ivill be the result will I 1 have chtive to go to prison lor for solli something ething I 1 dhont did ailt do of course I 1 have tried to regain my lily liberty but which of you to do alie ali i same sailie thing if placed in ill it a like s position anyway no matter j which ivay way the trial goes I 1 caw cair say with perfect truth truthfulness falness 1 I 1 am aill innocent the question is will I 1 got get a 1 chance to show the people of fill fillmore more that what 1 3 say ay is true and in conclusion F k can only ask asic dear reader feader will wilf this aliis bo be THE nm END 1 |
