Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-30
Running AWAY FROM HONE.
u. WHITmORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.


ThN Exploits of Youth for Whom
$500 sVR1 GHered-HNtf q Year OF
CrampinR frefe FRED 10 0=tBB TO
SchO0s.
New York SUM-.
In an advertising column yester-
day was the following:
Ny son, William c. Palmer, jr., left
Charler's school in West Fifty-ninth
street, in May last; should he return
home he will be welcome and not be re.
quired TO return to the school Any one
knowing his present address will confer
favor on an anxious father. VIM. 9.
PALMER, 4OS Fourth avenue.
While morning readers in Fourth
avenue were wondering about
this advertisement, a boy about
twelve years old, thin and sad,
wearing shabby clothes and not
over clean, was slowly and reluct-
antly passing their doors on his
way to 10 East Twenty-eighth
street. There, six months ago,
Mr.. William G. Palmer lived,
but, since his son, his only living
relative, had quit his home, he had
broken up housekeeping, rented
the handsome brown-stone front Il
month ago, and taken rooms in 40S
Fourth avenue. The boy had been
compelled, against his will, to at
tend Charlier Institute. He would
not stay in school, although he was
a very bright pupil, but persisted
in running away. The father
locked him in a room in the fourth
story; but he took a glass vessel
from the shelf, and, using one of
the hattened feet as screw-driver,
took off the lock from the door.
That was on May IL, and he was
not seen by the father afterward.
Detectives were employed. Not a
trace of him could be discovered.
Photographs were circulated, but
with no result. The father, who is
about fifty years old, and the owner
of considerable real estate in the
city, offered $500 for the sons
body, dead or alive; and still no
tidings. He slept little. The
stablemen next door saw him be-
fore the sun was up, inquiring of
any one whom ne met for any news
about his lost boy. His eyes be-
came so weakened through weeping
that his sight was nearly ruined
He suspected one of the servants Of
providing the boy with money
when he went away, and Of keep
ing up communication with him
The quarrel that ensued reached
the courts, but was settled satisfac-
tovily. Meanwhile the boy could
not be found, and did not respond
to occasional advertisements in
newspapers.
1t was William @. Palmer, jr.,
who timidly approached his faith
er's house in Twenty-eighth street
Yesterday. He had not seen the ad.
vertsement, however. AS soon a,
he saw the proprietor OF the stables,
next door, standing on the side
walk, he ran down Twenty-eightt
street toward First avenue where
lives a little lame boy, Tommy But
ler, whose home was once over the
stables. Tommy took the runaway
back to Mr.. Palmer's house, and
finding that strange family wal
living there, the pair went to tn,
Broadway squad police station ii
Twenty-nlnth street. The sergeant
knew the lost boy, who, as soon al
he saw his old friend, ran to him
, and, clasping the officers cheeks il
each hand, exclaimed: "Ah, ser
geant, you won't lock me up, vii
you? I've come home to see m
fatherm He told, in a disconnect
ed way, where he had been. Hav
ing a little money when he started
u he went to Coney Island, and cha,
a jolly time" in the hight of th
: season; out soon he had only som
silver pieces remaining, and begal
to think of going to work 70
T. money to keep from starving. II
a went to Hoboken and found EN-
ployment in a button factory. Be
ing quick to learn, he soon earne,
ic good wages, and saved enough t
take him away from New York. II
struck ont for Albany. What h