, 1891-07-23
RETURNED To ENGLAND
An American Denied Admission
to His Own Country.
Came Here as a StowaWay on
an Atlantic Steamer.
Ordered Sent Back as an OBJ
iectionable Immigrant.

NEW YORK, July 22-tours towaways
arrived here on the National line teamer
on July 10. Their pedigrees were taken
at the barge office and they were ordered
sent back to England as prohibited emf
igrants. Three said they were English
men. The other, a slim, blue eyed young
fellow with a decided American accent,
declared, in an affidavit, that he was
Frank sherman, born in Milwaukee nine
teen years ago. He said he had an uncle
Albert Kirchner, living at III North
Wood street, Chicago, where his widowed
mother, also a native American, resided.
His declaration had no effect on General
O'Bierne, the assistant superintendent of
immigration, who decided 10 send him
back with the others. They were all put
under guard in the wheelhouse of the
England, as their escape meant a line of
500 for the National line. The wheel
house is one OF the hottest and ~stuffiest
places on the ship.
Shermau's story was unknown until
yesterday to the reporters. 1t was re
yealed through John Joyce, a s%toTekeeper
On lut MUM u IlNls iO vas ph
the ship on Saturday and passed the
wheelhouse. Sherman called to him:
Can you get me some paper INT a
stamp
Joyce asked Sherman what be wanted
to do with them and Sherman said: Il
want to write a letter to my mother in
Chicago so she will get somebody to pre-
vent them from sending me back to
England. | am an American citizen.
Joyce. who has lived in Chicago. ques-
toned Sherman and became convinced
that he was telling the truth. Joyce
said it would be useless for Sherman to
send a letter to Chicago. as he probably
would not get an answer before tomorrow,
when the England sailed. Joyce voluu-
teered to send a dispatch to the lads
mother, paying for it himself. This
answer came back on Sunday:
Release my son, Frank Sherman,
who is 10 years old, an American citizen
and a on the England.
Joyce brought this dispatch TO the
barge office yesterday. He said that
Barney Biglin could vouch for his (Joyce's 81
reliability, Gen. O'Bierne said he had
decided to send Sherman back. He was
asked by a reporter:
DO you always send ~stowaways back2'
'1 es; IN every instance.
Whether they are American citizens
or nol2'
Il am not to prove that he is a citizen.
None but a sneak would come into the
country that way
The National line. according to one of
its representatives, is not going to do any
thing to prevent Sherman's return to an
alien country, and unless Gen. O'Bierne
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friends get him a writ of hsbeas corpus,
his native land will fade IN the distance
tomorrow morning. When he reaches
Liverpool-if he sails-he will be liable to
prosecution as a stOwaway, after which he
may be returned as n pauper immigrant,
and so on till the sea freezes over.
From his own story; which he told to
the reporters aboard the England, it was
was not difficult to see that he was IN
American citizen. He was a clerk in =
lawyers office in Denver, he says, before
he went to Milwaukee. lie came to New
York IN May, expecting to get a job as
clerk. He failed. and then determined
to go as a cattle man aboard the
steamship Nederland which sailed for
Deptiord, England, on June 10. He
vent off in such a hurry that he left his
wash" (tor which he has a ticket dated
June 81 at a laundry in Sixth avenue.
He mad peer accustomed to sedentary
employment and found that he could not
stand the hard work and fare of a cattle
man. He left Deptfor1 after the ship
docked and went to London, where he
met Consul General New. He told MI.
New he had no money and asked how he
could get home. Mr.. New answered his
question in Yankee fashion with another:
when you were hard up in the states
and wanted to go home what did you do. "
Sherman did not answer the counter
inquiry but went down to the National
dock and slowed himself away on the
England. He came on deck when the
vessel was a day out and was put to work.