The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-21
EXILE, If HE'S AN AMERICAN.
SUPPOSE WE HAZE an INQUIRY
ABOUT THIS MILWAUKEE BOZ

OF Course No Mas Can ExpatriAte Hin II
ne IL One OF Us-But Gen. O'Beirns of
the BarEe ONCE Proposes 20 Sesa Stow
away Frank sherma. to Tendon.
Four stowaways arrived hero on the National
| line steamship England on July 10. Thor
pedigrees were taken at tho Barge ONCE and
they we're sent back to the England as pro-
hiblted immiRranta Three said they were
Eneishmsn. The other. q slim. blue-eyed
young fellow. with decided American
accent. declared. In an AFFIDAVIT that
he was Frank Sherman. born in MIL
| waukes nineteen years ago. He said
he had An uncle. Albert Kirchner, living at
| III North Wood street, Chicago. where his
| widowed mother. also o native American, re-
| sided.
His declaration had no effect on Gen.
O'Beirne. tho Assistant Superintendent OF I'M
migration. who decided TO send him back with
the others. They were all put under guard In
tho wheelhouse OF tho England. as the escape
OF any OF them meant fine Of 500 for the Ma.
tional line. The wheelhouse 10 one OF the hot
test and stuf1lest places on the ship
Sherman's story was unknown until yester-
day to the reporters who get news at the Barge
ONCE. 1t was revealed through John joyce
storekeeper on the National line pier. He was
on the ship on Saturday and passed tho wheel
house. Sherman called to him:
Can you get me some parer and stamp"
Joyce asked Sherman what he wanted to do
with them and Sherman said:
Il want to wri;o letter to my mother In
Chicago so she will get, somebody to prevent
them from sending mo back to England I'm
an American Citizen
sherman. and BECAME convinced that no vas
telling the truth. Joyce said it would be useless
nrobasy @od nos set a answer
morrow. WHOM the England sails. Joyce VOL
moSs a tt send 6r bmnss hs ' Sa
caino back oil sunday:
R:sa.s my .on Frank sh.rm.n -hGi. 70 year, Old
could vouch for his. Joyce's; reliability. Gen.
back. He was a-Eod By a reporter:
DO you always send stowaways back9"
Whether they are American citizens or
None but 2 sneak would como into the country
Tho National limo. according to one Of its
representatives. is not going to DO anything tn
prevent Sherman. return to an alien country.
and unless zen. O,BeiIne ehnnees his mind or
habsas corpus. his native land will fade in the
distance blue Tomorrow morning. When he
to prosecution rs O stowaway. after which he
may may pc returned as an American pauper, and
until the sea freezes s' over i4'" "'' anu o. "a
From his own story, which he told to the re-
porters aboard tho England. 1t was not Diff
clerk In a lawyers office III Denver. he says.
before he went to Milwaukee. He came to
| New York in May. expecting to get q Job rs =
clerk. He failed. and then he determined TO 60
as a cattleman aboard the stenmship Neder-
June 10. lie went off in such a hurry that he
left his wash" tfor which he has a ticket
dated June 81 at q laundry in Sixth avenue.
ment. and found that he could not stand the
hard work and fare OF a .ca,tleman: He lrf.
London. whore he saw Consul General New.
! He told Mr., New that he had no money. AMI
swered his question In Yankee fashion, with
another:
When you were hard ur r. the States and
| wanted to get home what did y',u doY"
sherman did not answe or the counter-inuu iry,
but went down to the Nat onal line dock. and
slowed him elf away on the England. He
, came on deck when the vessel was q day out.
| and was nut to work.