The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-14
THOSE vREELAND TWINS.
ET0HT TEIRs ON AND IHE RAW
SOW TWINS o ~ n ri THEM
Burglary OF n Candy store Their Last Er-
p~Ioit-TbeIr short Lives t~heeherra with
NischIcr-Thsir Patient Father nc Last
Gives w and They Arc Now In JniI.

p~Ioit-TheIr short Lives Iheeherea wish
Mischief Their Patient Father nc Last
Gives Up and They Are Now In Jn,i.
Nowadays whenever anything goes wrong in
the ancient town of Passaic. there is one all.
sufficient explanation. II property mysteri.
ously disappears, IL the peace OF the commu-
nifty ia disturbed by nocturnal outbursts OF up
roar. II the elderly and unsuspectIng citizen
walking homeward in the evening encounters
III" Invisible but potent Irvine stretched across
the pathway ankle.high and precipitates him.
eelf with violence, leaving the impress Of his
features upon the sidewalk, II tho complaining
feline is discovered reluctantly but swiftly
towing about town some respectable famlly's
supply of tingare. II the perambulatory ped.
dlcr mourns tho overturning of his perambu.
lator and tho distribution of his
wares. II the weeks wash. hung out upon the
line to dry, develops rents and slashes, or Au-
brey Beardsley designs In mud, In short, II
anything animate or lnanimate Is stolen, de-
faced, ruined. destroyed, despoiled, MANNED,
or maltreated, the entire community lifts up
hands of Indignant remonstrance and exclaims:
Its the twins again."
BY this Is meant George and David, the sons
of John Vrecland, a respectable citizen Of Pas
sale. Hereditary influences do not seem to
have developed In these two. for though they
number but sixteen years between them,
equally divided, they have been in more sCrapes
than all the rest Of Passaic's youthful ~populace
put together. Nobody seems to know Just how
many times they have been arrested. individ-
uallv and collectively generally the latter, as
they prefer to work in partnership, but the
police history OF the town for the last year and
Nv ,hov mo IN isiI orain an, u 10 nrohoh,s
that they win stay there for a time while the
Grand Jury, now in session, meditates upon
their misdeeds.
~ annoarorro ,,ov ,,ro No bir, =, THAR ron,
nature. Either OF them would do equally well
uot IL Is almost impossible to distinguish be.
= tween them as n model for the GOOD little bcy
of the Sunday school story, who dies of con-
sIanp -" r"hl,t",",v rhatnrIr 70 III. H.enin.
pe'o VI vi w m ",1r.nH
s .uta l n@ands on on'I the scales. Moreover,
,bov hoyo , ,no,l, md n,ous .vnression and
o .,iI %,nrnrntr,s ro,cos oJuirab,o stncl in
trad. for snch a noir, These attributes are no.
tably prominent when they arc meditatine some
cello, and babe their mother goodnight with
such affecting sweetness when she tucked
hem up in their Fl bed on M s% Id.y night, that she
periences, have tied them fast to the bed posts
and then watched over them with q club. But
down stairs. No sooner had her footsteps
DIED lie HWny than the twins !so rose 10 f.. up srd ,i.d their as5
Deu CiOlueS lllO IOpcS, Stu W II RIOunu, dHu
Halt an hour later Mrs. Lena orthwein of
store. sSS l"si Fesei sines' me nsar nns a no to the IN hS Su sshSg
which was specially designed to cover such
ate. As She appeared in the doorway with
lamp, she say two small snome-like figures
soak her and run cried one OF them.
A hail of chocolate drops. sugar plums, jaw
and best mixed" rained upon her. until
finally she turned and ti,d, getting u huge
chunk sa9R :, of M, %el" wssf can OUT iu Md in the S6 s"f iby of Hes
through the back window as they had come in:
a door 0 sere Menf sr for o the police e"'G Tie rest seS Of i
having heard that two small boys had broken
know. lie hurried to the Vrceland house at
Ann and state streets. got there first. and
them was found g cent. and an exhaustive
WWi,Sont a murmur. In the police court on the
following day they. faced Justice Bowker with
they did it for, said in duet:
y / do know"
for the Grand jury. Their father. who was in
COURT. asked that they be put in Jail. as he be-
Your Honor" said he in a trembling voice.
..,,I'd rather those boys were dead than what
their brothers and sisters are good children
and never make me any trouble. but these two
have y sc almost an, rnjnf ,be my lif sivay S"n IN k sfss tns;n
I've stood II as long as can"
The twins have a record which even that
great criminologist and master OF police fc ion,
Sir. Stephen O'Brien of 900 Mulberry street,
cnuId scarcely furnish A parallel with. IL
does not appear in its entirety on the police
station register. but a neighbor OF the Nree-
lands has It pretty complete for the last six
m inths in n bo6k which he has been Keeping
and which he may hand over TO the Public
prosecutor II desired. The record begins with
an entry which explains the authors interest
in the career of the twins. Following are ex-
tracts. somewhat condensed:
across sidewalk Of STATE street, from tree to
fence. six inches from ground. Writer sus-
toinci Confusion on forehead and sprained
arm Three other ncighbors also somcrsaulted.
Writer pursued twins. caught one, and cor
recteI with a fence picket wrenched loose for
he occasion Damage TO fence, so cents;
naid damage to twin. G. as he was out with
bIs brother next night doing the same trick on
Ann street.
dec, l. Doctors horse left standing on
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