Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-12
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
A YOUTHFUL IMP0sT0R,

Who Eas All the Requisites of a News
paper Reporter.
This certainly seems to be an age Of i'm
position. 1t crops out all over, is not con-
fined to any particular sect, bat is found in
all ages, classes, sexes and conditions AL
most every day the newspapers chronicle
the acts ofimposition of men and women,
but seldom do we hear of its being prac-
ticed by those of tender years. A case in
point, however, demonstrates the fact that
Young America is not slow 10 catch on"
even in this line as the following state
ment of facts will clearly demonstrate :
few evenings ago mild-mannered, honest
faced looking youth attracted the attention
of a number of kind-hearted and SYM
pathetic ladies in the vicinity of Fourth
and N streets. lie was stranger
in a strange land, three thousand miles
from home, without money or friends He
soon excited their tenderest sympathies.
when he related, between sobs, the tears
rolling down his rudy cheeks, the follow
ing pathetic story: His mother was dead.
Some months ago his father placed him
IN charge of wealthy lady, and gave her
S2,0OO-to be used in bringing him up and
giving him good education. Some DAYS
ago the lady concluded to come to Califor-
mia, and brought the boy with her. They
got OIL the train on their arrival at Sacra-
mento and proceeded to 4 hotel on X
street. The lady sent the boy out upon an
GRAND, and on his return to the hotel he
discovered that his guardian had deserted
him and gone on to San Francisco. lie
desired assistance, money sufficient to tele-
graph his father the state of affairs, and to
allow him to follow the woman to San
Francisco and secure the money she had
which rightfully belonged to him. He
told the story with such earnestness that
all were ready to help him. Even the
corner groceryman, who seems, from his
actions in this case, to be distant relative
to the one that we read about
in Peck's Bad Boy took hold of
the matter interestedly and offered to ferret
out the base woman, and care for the lad
until his father could be heard from. After
the boy had been Toasted at the grocery
mans family table, that gentleman, whose
sympathies were thoroughly aroused, took
the lad to the station house and laid the
matter before the police. He left the boy
at the city prison, being assured by the Off
GERS that the matter would be thoroughly
investigated. Presently Judge Henry came
in, and the boy repeated the story to him
in a most sorrowful manner amidst pro-
fusion of tears. The kind-hearted Judge
had him cared for at the city prison for the
night and told him he would see him again
in the morning, and whatever could, would
be done, to relieve his present wants. and
steps taken TO apprehend the wo-
man who had robbed and deserted
him. The next morning after Court
adjourned the Judge sent for the
youth and the latter came bounding
up the stairs. He was asked to take a seat,
Iudpp a
ready to note down his statement, said /:
" Now, young man, | want you to repeat
your story to me, and be very careful that
you speak nothing but the truth. What is
your name?' civilian Alfred Smith,
Where were you born?p After little
hesitancy the boy replied: In San Fran
cisco, February 8, 1872" "What is your
fathers name?" " His name was Thomas
Smith he has been dead eight or nine |
years. My mothers name was Maggie |
Smith, and she has also been dead for |
several years." He then broke down, COM
menced crying in real earnest, and said all |
he had told the people on street and the |
Judge the night before was tissue of false
hoods. He said if the Judge would not |
punish him he would tell him the exact |
truth. Lately he had been working for a |
man in Millviilc Shasta county, by the !
name of Sonborge While living in San !
Francisco he stole wood and coal, was de- |
tected, but not prosecuted on account of |
his youth. He was also arrested for steal |
ing horse and buggy, but the owner, after |
receiving the property, refused TO appear |
against him. He was arrested for pocket |
picking, for which he was convicted and |
sentenced to eighteen months at the Indus |
trial School. After serving sixteen months |
he escaped. and hired out to a dairyman at
Hunters Point. He came to Sacramento
on Thursday about noon, in quest of work;
came as far as Stockton on the steamer I.
c. Walker, walked to Lodi, and came from
there on the train.