The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-04
THE SON oFlTHE KING OF BURG.
LARS.
He and His Mother Puzzle a Police
Justice With Their stories About
Each Other. aT
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Justice with Their stories About
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A middle-aged woman in brown silk
came into the Essex Market Police Court
yesterday, leading a very ragged urchin
of fourteen. "This is my son George"
she said to Justice Murray, "and l
want him committed to some
institution. ~ He is disobedient. He
does not 60 to school; he stays out
late nights, and he keeps bad company"
The boy stepped in front of his mother
and looking her in the face exclaimed de-
family: "Yon're a thief and you know
it, and you're living with two husbands
now. You knew you've been stealing
all over the country, and I've seen you
steal in Montreal myself. You sent me
to the Island once to get rid OF me-"
She struck him in the face at that and
Justice Murray interfered and took
both of them into his private room.
There the woman said again that she was
Mrs. Sophie Lyons, that her husband was
"Red Lyons" otherwise known as the
"King of Burglars" Her mother kept
a disorderly house, and when she was
three years old she was put upon the
streets to steal. She was arrested and
sent TO an institution. She had endeav-
ored to conceal from her son her and his
fathers story. He was exceedingly in
telligent, and to make sure of his being
kept in ignorance of the truth she had
him sent to Montreal, where, he had
studied in three colleges He got into
trouble and ran away and came to this
city, where he had since been earning his
living by singing in concert-saloons.
Justice Murray committed the boy to
the Essex Market Prison and told the
woman that he would decide in the
morning what to do with him. When
the boy was put in cell he cried and
screamed and pleaded to be let 60. Then
he became quiet, and when one Of the
keepers happened TO visit him . few
minutes later, he found that the boy
had tied his handkerchief around his
throat and to one of the bars of his cell
door, and had tried to strangle himself.
Justice Murray was told Of his condition
and ordered him brought into court
again. .,,,.
The boy said he could only remember
distinctly as far back as eight years ago.
He was then living with his parents in
One Hundred and Tenth street. For
some reason unknown to him he was
sent to Blackwelrs Island. Next his
parents sent him to Canada. When he
had been three years in Canada his
mother sent for him to come to Detroit,
and dispatched him to New York. He
got employment here in secondhand
furniture store on Ninth avenue. He
showed recommendation which he said
a woman who had employed him had
given him. .
. "Didn't you draw a carving-knife on
this woman to get this recommendation
Justice Murray, whom the mother had
informed on this point, asked of the boy.
eyes, I did," he answered. "But 1t
was not to get the recommendation.
She had my watch and refused to give 1t
to me-"
Justice Murray recommitted the boy
until this morning. 81 know she has left
the city, and that will be put away"
he sobbed. N 7f
Mrs. Lyons gave her address as No. Is
Montgomery street, where she does not
live. r.I ' .-