The evening world., 1888-07-07
BAN|SHED BOY.
Josie Shephard's Case a General
West Side Topic.
Everybody Sides with the Grand
mother Robbed Of Her Boy.

Expressions from NeiRhbors aud Friends
Who Have Known the Old Lady
Well - A General Hope for the sue
cess Of "The Evening World" In Re
storing the Boy-The Maii-Carrier Says
lie Never Delivered m Asylum Letter TO
Mrs. Sheppard.
As the time draws near for the rehearinG of
the case of little Josie Sheppard by the In
denturing Committee of the New York Juve-
nile Asylum the interest of the public In the
outcome Of The EVENING WoRLD's efforts to
have the boy brought back from his exile in
the West and restored to his relatives and
friends in this city grows more and more
intense.
This is especially true OF the noighborhood
in which Mrs. Sheppard, the grandmother,
and Mr.. Andrew Grant, who is going to
adopt the boy il he can get him back, reside.
II Is the talk of the day in that part of the
town.
There is hardly an acquaintance of
mine.'' said Mr.. Grant to an EVENING WORLD
reporter, " who does not speak of the case
and congratulate me and my friend Mrs.
Sheppard that we have so strong and u~ntiring
a champion as The EVENING WORLD to assist
us in getting our rights, and express the con-
viction that with such powerful aid We will
be sure to get back the boy. It's q great
thing for us. and you may be sure that we APP
p~reciate it deeply.
There is so much interest i'll the case
around here that many people cannot get
their EVENING Would nowadays. every
body is following the progress of the case so
closely, and 1T Is the same way all along up
to Harlem, for ! have many friends on the
west side, and l know. from what they tell
mo.
back ! ain going to send hun to school in the
is all arranged, and if we get him at all 1t will
he before that time. Poor. Mrs. Sheppard
can hardly believe yet that she will SEQ her
g~rhndchild again, and occasionally has tits of
to encourage her, and you may be sure that
we will all be on hand on Monday night,
when the committee meets, to furnish oil the
Information that can be desired to show our
ability to take care of the boy and bring him
up properly"
Inquiry in the neighborhood showed that
the interest taken in the case all over town
was even stronger than had been suspected.
Emanuel Steinbsrg, of $50 Tenth venue.
vicinity, said
:" know the people around here are fol-
lowing the progress of the Sheppard case
very closely, Noone could help being, in
Lot know any of the parties. and never heard
of them be ore. People who come in here
stop md talk it over, and watch anxiously
for new Developments.
only last night I went uptown to see
some friends who live in One Hundred and
Tenth streets, and found them all discussing
1t, and they assured NE that Harlem was en-
thusiastiC for the success of old Mrs. Shep-
hard's cause. ! an sure i hope she will sue
coed. for she seems to have been treated
most unlusAv and cruelty"
Mrs. William Young, who lives at SIT West
Thirty eighth street, Is an acquaintance of
Mrs. Sheppard and has known her for five
years. She said There is not a more re-
spectacle and worthy woman in New York.
She is a hard working and sober woman, who
has lots of friends about her who think it is a
shame that she should be deprived of the
child. She is poor, but that is no reason
why she should be told that her grandson
cannot live where she can sometimes see
him."
Mrs. Sick, the wife of q German shoe
maker who lives at $40 West Thirtn-eight
street. said that Mrs. Sheppard came to see
her last night. and told her all about the
sending away Of the boy.
She seemed to feel very badly about it,
and cried most all the time she was telling
me the story. ! know her we'll. and my little
pOy, IL was uIoNh z lub SuLuLltT, WAS "
playmate and constant companion of Josie
Sheppard. 1t was very hard on the old lady
TO send AVA the child when he was sick, and
she worries about him al. the time. He was
such q nice little fellow, too, if he was wild
sometimes"
Sebastian Dorfmuller and his wife. who
keep O sausage store on Eleventh avenue,
knew Mrs. Sheppard as one of their custom
ers and she was frequently employed by them
to do the washing.
There is not a harder working or an hon
ester woman in town" said Mr.. Dorfmuller,
T." and | know that she deserves to get back
her child; Everybody around here is talking
~ have known Mrs. Sheppard only for q
short time said Mrs. Charlotte Van Pelt, Of
44S Eleventh avenue, / have heard
about the child she had up in the asylum.
She visited it on the s;ormiest days last win
ter, in regular blizzard weather, in rain and
shine, and always took him something nice.
We all took IN interest in the boy, and she
always was expecting TO get him out some
time this summer. IT was cruel In those asy-
her know anything about it, and 1t is worry
ing the poor woman to death. But with The
EVENING WORLD to aid her, ! feel certain
that she will see her boy again"
Her daughter, Miss Sarah Mature, and Mr..
and Mrs. James DAILY, who are neighbors, re-
echoed her sentiments.
F. Schwartz, who keeps q grocery store at
Thirty ninth street and Eleventh avenue, said
tnat mrs. sheppard during the last year had
frequently worked for hun. and vouched for
her as a thoroughly respectable, industrious
and worthy woman.
"6he thought all the world of that boy"
he said, and would have worked herself to
death for him II II had been necess ry. l
know she never had any intention Of giving
him up and was only waiting till she could
get him out of the institution to bring him
home and support him herself. Almost every
one who comes in here has something to say
Of the case, and they all commend the energy
which The EVENING WORLD has shown in
giving its readers all the particulars of the
case and In the great fight it is making"
In the course OF his investigations the re-
porter came across the postman whose route
includes the residence Of Mrs. Sheppard, at