The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-07
CRENsHAw TAKEN HOME.
The Young Atlanta Runaway Carried
Back to His Parental hoof

Inc Dung Atlanta Runaway Cdrrl6Q
Back to His Parental Roof
Frank Crenshaw, the young Atlanta
runaway, brought his truancy to an end
here yesterday, and last night be started
back to Atlanta, accompanied by Deputy
United States Internal Revenue Collector
JEFF d. Dunwoody, who met young
Crenshaw and persuaded him to return
home.
The young man gave MORNING NEWS
reporter quite an interesting account of his
travels since he left the parental roof la t
Saturday week He said that the clerical
work assigned him where he was employed
had accumulated beyond the ability of one
man to catch up with, and he concluded to
recreate. Casting his check for the salary
Of q months services, he quietly strolled
off down town, bought valse and
three or four changes of linen,
and scalpers ticket to Tampa, Fla He
changed cars at Macon, staid at the South
ern hotel until o'clock the next morning
and took the train for jacksonville. From
there he went to Tampa, where he says he
Joined party of alligator hunters and was
in at the death of a sauran between 10 and
IL feet long. On his return from the hunt
he took dummy train and went over to
Ybor City, where the condition of the
Cuban village did not strike him favor ably,
and as there were rumors of yellow jack at
Havana, he abandoned his original inten-
tion of going over to Cuba and returned to
Orlando. Here he says he visited relatives
and bought ticket for New York via the
Ocean steamship line, and arrived in
Savannah Sunday, registering at the
Marshall as George Earl, Orlando, tho name
that he says was on the scalper's ticket he
had bought at Atlanta, although his ocean
ticket was taken out in his own name. He
had secured berth as saloon passenger on
the Tallahassee, which sailed last night 1t
was his intention, he said, TO have visited
his uncle and two aunts in Now York for
couple of weeks, after which he expected to
return home
Before leaving home, he had lot of cor
respondence addressed to himself as George
Earl, and written on a typewriter. and he
says he watched the Atlanta papers every
time he could get hold of a copy, while he
was away from home, so that if any de-
scriPtion were given of his dress he
better avoid Identification. He is in
bis 10th year, but he says when
he was a little fellow he and half dozen
other boys of his size, who had been reading
Beadles dime novels, concluded to go on
the warpath. They armed themselves with
toy pistols and blank cartridges, Struggled
out about days provisions, of bread and
cheese pTlnClpullV, ana aILer UraYenng DY
different routes reached a lonely point on
the Chattahoochee river just before night
fall. As darkness began to hover over
them and the big frogs began to below In
the reeds, the courage oozed out of the
young pale faces, and they started for home
which they reached near daybreak. The
parents were too glad to see the lost children
to think of furnishing them, and the Incl
dent was recalled by young Crenshaw yes
terday to point the argument that he was
making that "boys will be boys" and that
you can't put an old head on young
shoulders"
Mr.. Dunwoody met Crenshaw ON his way
to the Ocean steamship wharves on q second
trip from the hotel and recognized him at
once, and had no trouble in persuading him
that he should abandon his voyage, owing
to the anxiety felt by mis- parents. No ar
rest was made, and none was necessary, the
young man remarking that as he had seen
about all no cared to see in Florida he would
postpone his visit to New York to a later
period. 1t may also he truthfully said of
the young man that his conduct was very
correct on his trip. He avoided saloons
and aside from his legitimate travelling ex-
penses and the purchase of an occasional
book or newspaper, he spent very little of
his money. be is young man of very
pleasing address, talks entertainingly, and
is not much of prodigal after ALL
He said he would like to live in Savan-
nah, and he intended to visit 1t again soon.
the next time with parental permission.