The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-02
KILLED BESIDE HIS CHUM.
FATE OF a RUNAWAY LAD VINO
WAS TRUDGING NOME ON FOOT
IRE Boys Came co New TorR e Make
Their FortuNe-GoinR Hose, Tired -nd
HuuGry, when n Train Htt One or Thern.

| The Boys Came 60 New York - Make
Their Forture-fsoinR Hone, Tired sad
HuuEry, when Trsin Hit Oae or Thew.
Fifteen year old Oswald Ayrton, whose
father lie driver. and fourteen-year-old Willie
Stewart. whose father is a shoemaker. worked
together as gate boys in the Holyoke machine
shops in Thomas street, Worcester Mass.
until Saturday last. That night the superin-
tendent told them that the shops we're going
to shut down and that there wouldn't be any
more work for them. Then each got 1924. q
full weeks wages. The lads we're chums. and
| they discussed what they would do.
Let's go to New York and make fortune"
cried Oswald. Wen ind work there"
"All rights we'll do It," asseuted Willie.
We'll run away without telling anybody at
home"
They started on their runaway adventure on
Sunday Last night Willie Stewart was lying
dead at the Harlem Morgue. and his comrsde.
Oswald Ayrton. was q prisoner In the big
granite building Of the Gerry society at TWEEN
ty-thrd street and Fourth avenue. Stewart
was run over and instantly killed Just at day
break. while he and Ayrton. penniless and
homesick and discouraged. were trudging
YEARLY along the New York and New Haven
Railroad on their way back to Worcester.
The boy was killed just north Of the station
at Bedford Park. There are four tracks at this
point Tho boys were walking on q south
bound track. and Ayrton was few feet ahead
OF Stewart They saw a train approaching
them on the same track.
Il wish that train was going homo and that
/ was on board it," said Stewart tearfully.
The approaching train made such q racket
that the lads did not hear New Haven train
No. Z. which was racing northward on the
next track. Ayrton stepped of the track into
the little gutter running alongside the road
bed to let tho south bound train go by. just
as the last car passed him the engine OF the
north-bound New Haven train Numbered by.
grazing his shoulder. The lad gave a scream
and crouched in a sitting posture to save him
self When both trains had sped past Ayrton
looked back for his chum. He couldn't see him.
Williel Willie" he shouted. where are
your
Ho got no answer and walked back down the
track hunting for Stewart. He came upon his
friends body stretched across the track TWEEN
ty-hvc feet beyond whore he had stood when
he said he wished he was going home on the
train The lads head was battered and COW
cred with blood. Ayrton stopped down and
saw that no was dead. lie tried to lift the body
and drag it to the station. The BODY was too
heavy. and no rolled it over against fence so
that it should not be further manGled by the
next train. Then he ran to the station and
told Station Agent Patrick O'Rourke what had
happened.
The body was taken to the fremont police
station. In one Of the pockets were found
cheap 22-calihre revolver, loaded and lot OF
OF string and a miscellaneous assortment Of
things boy prizes In a coat pocket was a
FeSss onE ' seeso q Boe
son; The hoy was in tears.
II did notknow that other train was com.
know how i ESCAPED being Killed. too. Oh.
how / wish | was home with mammal
Capt Thompson ordered the body to be
taken to the Morgue and sent Ayrton to the
Harlem Court in charge OF Policeman Cregier.
accident meantime to Police Headquarters.
This message was received Just after Superin-
Of FoGe
postal card which the dead boy bad written
ehs
Byrncs TO search for the two runaways. Stew
art had forgotten to say where his father could
,Ayrto4 was arraiCned before Justice welde.
He was fcotsore and dusty He still wore the
shops; Big tears rolled down his cheeks as he
We both agreed" he sa,d. mot to tell our
fathers about being paid on on Saturday. The |
regular pay day at the shops was Thursday. |
Without being ssEsd eH for s tsS
reyolyers for hall hall dollar apiece and got lot
MN ar sRf & ~ GNfk
track to walk to Putnam. about twenty-five |
miles away.
:" 1t was terrible hard work and awfully cold. |
We couldn't stand walking any longer when |
we got as far as Oxford. and we stopped at a
out. We walled 10 Putnam on Monday morn
ing. and hSught railroad tickets there for New |
Lonnon. We got the steamer City OF Worcester |
there, and reached New York about 3 o'clock |
on Tuesday morning. We had only dollar |
left. We were both awfully homesick. Willie |
want TO see the city; We didn't know where
spent nearly all the dollar getting something |
II lew cents and my revolver left. II was my
revolver that Willie had In his pocket when
the police took his toly to the station house.
lie threw his own revolver don't know |
why we bought the reyOlycrs anyway"
Between his sobs he went on to say that
day night into freight ear somewhere near
the river. II was bitterly cold in the car and
they cried until they tell asleep from sheer
started 10 roam aimlessly about again. with
out the slightest iden whore theyswere going.
Vent ThGi IN ana d%b Mo saw a2St once and
a message to his father to come on and take
him hack to his mother. At might they reached
they sat on the bridge and cried heartily.
WALKED SSi tE railre1d track In the
freight ea We c@ into a a0Sn Saa sb6st
two hours sleep. II was so cold that we
couldn't sleep any longer. and we climbed out
dark that We could scarcely see whore we
rain g n and Killed willie. We had planned
Ayrton ended his story In a burst Of tears
Justice Welde turned him over TO Officers
Byrnes telegraphed to Ayrton's
! ito SsRtr.i street WSrcestsr. has ' fiSs
was sent also to Willie Stewards home at Dix
street notifying Mr.. Stewart that Wille's body
would be held at tho Harlem MOrgue until his