Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-12-21 | Page 9 | Young Boy Allowed to Go to His Mother

HE W MB TO GO TO HIS MOTHER Frank Sullivan, 16-year-old boy, taken from a Union Pacific train here Wedpesday night by Detective A. B. Jensen, on advice from Butte, Mont., was placed on the same train last night and' sent on his way to Boise, his original destination. Young Sullivan, a bright, intelligent, well-dressed and properly trained boy, was arrested at the instance of Police Chief Murphy of Butte, who stated that ho was a runaway and his father was searching for him The boy admitted ad-mitted he was running away but ex plained that he was enroute to his mother's home in Boise. He stated that his mother and father had separated, sep-arated, that he had been to Butte on a visit and that, when he sought to return to Boise, his father refused to let him go. Ho communicated with his mother and she sent money4 to purchase pur-chase a ticket and gave him instructions instruc-tions how to leave. He waited until his father went to sleep Tuesday, then he disappeared. Because of the youth's evident sincerity sin-cerity and his statement that his mother mo-ther was alone and needed him, the local police department became his champion and lawyers volunteered to help him resist extradition. These facts were communicated to the Butto police and a telegram from tnero last night advised the local officers to let him continue to Boise the father having hav-ing given up his effort to return his son to Montana. -nn