The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-05-20
GONE WITH A CIRCUS.
A Jefferson City Boy Brings Up
in New York.


rives, and II the average small boy dun'i
follow that BY cl,nging to the elephants
tail, be reads . dime novel, buys . 8 re-
volver and butcher knife and starts 10
the Rocky Mountains. The following il .
remarkable account of Je6enaon City boy,
taken from the press Of that city:
Officer Cuff. Of Grand Central Depot. New
York, found . small, bsretooted, ragged
boy trying TO learn the time BY the clock
on the tour Of the depot. The officer ssked
him where he belonged. He replied that
his name was Henry Fisher and that he
was alone IN the city. His father ard
mother lived in New Orleans and he ran
away from home because he vas not treated
ed veil. His father Vas IN engineer on the
Hannibal and ST. Joseph railroad. He
had reached New York thst morning. The
officer took the boy. Who IL eleven yesn
old, to the station house, where he spent
the night. Yesterday the boy was taken
to the Fifty-.eventh Street Police Court,
and Justice Duffy committed him to the
care Of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children. To World reporter
the boy said later that his real name vas
Henry Stark and that his father Vas .
brakeman in Jefferson City, Missouri. He
lived on High street, between Adams and
Water streets. and had tvo sisten and .
brother. He has q siep-mother. One day
last fall his step-mother whipped him 50
badly that he resolved to run away. "Dsn"
Forepaugh's circus was in the city then
and one Of the cooks named Shorty" agreed
to take him With the circus. With the cir
Gus he Travelled to Sedalia, Kansas CITY,
about Texas, and finally brought up in
New Orleans. where the circus sailed for
Philadeiphis. He At times did little things
in the circus, for which he got his board.
In Philadelphia Mr.. Forepaush and 4
Mexican Who owned portion Of the circus
quarreled. and the circus vas broken up.
He then made up his mind to zee the coun.
try, and got half ticket for Washington. |
After staying there awhile he left for Pitts |
burg without . ticket. The conductor
asked him where he was going and where
be lived. IL told hin I lived on Main
street, PittsburE; that's always o.
safe street ter give. There's one Of
them Main streets in every town." be re-
marked yesterday to the reporter. After
seeing Pittsburg he "stoved" himself away
in . steamboat, vent to Louisville. Cairo
and ST. Louis. He always told people be
vas trying to get home. In the steamer
Tom Halliday he visited VickshurE and
Memphis and finally got TO New Orleans
again. He then vent to Boston on the
stesmer Mary Houston. He had been
there short time when be began to feel
homeaick and came to New York. When
the officer found him he Wa thinking how
to get home. Officer Chiardi will take
charge Of Of him and If his story is t. ne he
will be sent home.
III is certain that the boy alluded to
above is the little son Of Henry Stark. OF
this city Who has been missing since last
summer and who Vas supposed to have
been drowoed.-Ens. EcIIPsE
LATER.
Mayor Dawson received letter from f.
Jennings Fellows, secretary Of the society
for the prevention Of cruelty 70 chiIdres, at
New York, Informing him Of the case Of
Henry Stark, Who be stated vss then n the
custody Of that society. The gentleman
told . pitifal tale Of the little vagabood's
wanderings, and wound up By saying that
ii the boys parents were really living in
this city. he. the Mayor could no doubt be
= me'~enser Of Joy 10 their bereaved hearts.
- they no doubt incurred him dead, BY
informing them that he still lived, and that
they aend for him there.
The Mayor shouldered his cane and hur-
ried OF in search Of Stark, the toys father,
pleased in hn heart At being the bearer Of
10 gratifying intelligence. He delivered
his message. At 6sss Il Va Questionable
whether the new vas gratifying or not.
At Lest the boys father decided TO send for
him. and letter has gone forward direct.
ing his return.