Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-05
KIDNAPPED.
A BOY STOLEN FROM HOME BY A
 TRAMP.
Made to Beg for the Bum and eruell. Treated When No Returns
 Were Made

Last Sunday morning a man and boy going by he name of Shaw called at the home of Sanitary Officer MickleberrA and begged for some thing to eat. From appearances Mir. Mickleberry jndged that all was not right and telephoned to police head quarters to send a policeman out to his house and make the arrest.
 No sooner was the boy rescued from the tramp than he told the ofli- ccrs q story which reads like fiction, and the tramp was then arrested on the change of Kidnapping and the boy taken in charge by Mr. Mickleberry.
 When Shaw was arrested, who has q hali-dozen aliases, such as George Cox, Otto Cox, Kennedy Red, Charlie Lewis, etc, as has since been learned by the officers, Il razor encased in a leather scabbard was found about his neck, which was the only thing of any value found on his person.
 Shaw, or whatever his name may be, is now confined in jail and stands a most excellent chance of doing ser vicefor awhile for the State i'll the State penitentiary.
 The boy tells a most thrill story. He was seen by a GRAPHIC reporter at police headquarters this afternoon to whom he related in an intelligent manner a most interest ing story. He is a bright, dark-eyed, chubby little fellow, and impresses one with the sincerity of his story. He gives his name as Albert McNutt, his age at 13 years and his home at Lincoln, Illinois.
 He says that on July the 9th he and two companions left their home for Bloomington, Ill.,, to witness Il ball-game and while in that city they were approached by Shaw (who is a white man) and two negroes, and by spacious and false promises were per suaded to accompany them. His two companions were carried off by the negroes, while he was taken in charge by the white man. Shaw told l him, so the boy states, that he was q barber, and would give him a new suit of clothes and pay him good wages. At II o'clock that day Shaw and the boy left. They first went to Springfield, thence to Mound June ton and thence to Carlo. From the latter point they went over into Missouri and then came from that State to Pine Bluff over the Cotton Belt, stealing their way by hiding in a box car.
 The boy says that he was com pelled to beg, and whenever he failed to get anything that he would be severely whipped. He stated that he now has stripes on his back from cruel treatment, which statement was corroborated by an officer who had examined his injuries. After | leaving Springfield, so the boy says l Shaw, or whatever his name is, told him, in reply to a question, that h6 was not a barber, but a professional bum, and that he had never worked a day in his life.
 Little Albert says that they arrived i'll Pine Bluff last Friday and thai they camped out in the woods neal the mill of the Bluff City Lumber Company. It seems that Shaw was arrested sometime during Saturday but was subsequently, released Sunday morning, as above related, the tramp and tho kidnapped boy went to the house O Officer Mickleberrytob beg, when Shaw began to abuse the police, which led to his second arrest and the subse quent disclosures.
 A letter was sent to the boys mother at Lincoln, H., yesterday | telling her of his recovery.
 Shaw's examing trial takes place tomorrow and he should be severely dealt with.