Pleasant Grove Review | 1950-02-03 | Page 4 | Boy Hidden for 14 Years by Mother, Ignores Her

Boy Hidden for 14 Years By Mother, Ignores Her BOSTON. With a trembling, smallboy, "no," Gerald Sullivan, H, turned away from the mother who was accused of keeping him a "hidden boy" most of his life. The mother, Mrs. Anna Sullivan, Sulli-van, 45, and son met outside a closed court where she had come to plead with a judge to return her boy. They have been apart since last March 14 when Gerald startled the world on his first day of real freedom. In ragged dresses and with black curls down to his shoulders, should-ers, Gerald told police of his escape from a tenement room in which he said his mother kept him locked. He said he knew nothing of the world outside except what he could see through a slit below a nailed curtain. His mother in a weeping interview in-terview with newsmen said she loved the boy and meant him no harm.