The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-29
CHAINED BOY TO BED LEG.
CHAIN HAD A 1?-PoUND WEIGRT
ATTACHED.

PernmbuIating Dnirymnn Taiion Arrested for
Cruelty 20 His sen-The Lad. who Admits
BeinE Bad. Does Not Think his Punish
ment Unconstitutionaiiy Cruel and Unusual.
Little Jimmy Talon is q bad boy. He admits
It. Yesterday morning his father. Richard Tai
Ion, took extreme measures to punish him. He
was arrested, and when his method Of punish
mont became known Jimmy at once became an
object of sympathy.
Richard Talon is the originator Of the per
amDulatinR diaries with milk shake attach
ments, and has half a dozen OF these on tho
streets Just now. His first wife and former
partner in the business died two years ago,
leaving him with three children. Joseph, the
eldest, is married, and runs q milk business Of
his own. Stella, tho second child, is 10, and
Jimmy is 10 years old. Mr.. Talon married
again about six months after his first wife died.
He lives at ~ New Chambers street, where
Jimmy and his sister Stella lived until yesterday,
when the family was broken up through the
punishment Of Jimmy.
Mr.. Talon said yesterday that he had had all
kinds OF trouble trying to make a good boy Of
Jimmy. He did not hesitate to admit that he
had larrupod Jimmy and tried everything to
make him mend his evil ways. He had locked
him in q room and taken his clothes away, but
ell his Establishments seemed to DO useless, as
Jimmy. continued to associate with a gang OF
boys who stole milk from halls and committed
other petty depredations In the Fourth ward.
Jimmy did not get on we'll with his stepmother.
and she did not spare him in her reports 70 his
spare the rod, but there was apparently no re-
The trouble which brought down tho severe
punishment which his father administered yes.
terday began at Tuesday night. evening meal.
coffee for him, and he is said to have used bad
language toward her. His father was not at
bone bone at the time ;v and ibi ~. eseSPed until I.nnI yes;
his misbehavior to his father.
ri AZ him this time SO that he will behave
termined ciinch Of his jaws. He took Jimmy
into the darkest. room In the house, and locked
him in there while he went down to the stable
chain which he used ordinarily to curb the
horses Of his perambulating DIARIES that proved
sessiSss; the ne i4 Rp . q Ps Weight on to The he e athef e anf
He wound the chain around the leg Of the bed
leg. and secured il with tho paddock. Talon
went off then with. ono Of his. perambulating
deiries certain that Jimmy could not get away.
ever. and lis father had not been gone more
than ten minutes before he had slipped his foot
out OF the chain and started to get out OF the
his stepmether caught him and dragged him
the paddock and she unlocked it and shacfled
Jimmy to the weight and bedpost more securely
than s{o,b his aron fssh9 Si, had sSt,s She s,S Tr ibsn ,ocR RtssGe sS o.
chain tightly around Jinmy's leg, He screamed
and moaned SO piteously that his sister Stella
became frightened and begged her stepmothel
to release him. She would not do so. and finally
Stella ran around to the home OF her big
brother Joe at 81 James street and told
him of Jimmy's plight. Joe. who is not on Rooc
terms with his father or stepmother. hurried tt
the house. When he saw Jimmy chained to the
bedpost he demanded that his stepmother re
lease him. She declined to do 80, and Joe liftet
up the leg of the bed and slipped the chain Off
Then he picked up Jimmy and carried him ant
the weight to the Oak street station.
Sergeant Hatton heard Joes plant. and Will
a chisel broke the chain and freed Jimmy. TheI
he detailed Detectives Malarkey and Riley Il
arrest Mr.. Talon. The detectives found him il
lower broadway with his dairy. and they tool
him to the station and then to the Centre Stree
Police Court. The attention of Gerry Agent
King and Murray was called to the case, an,
Agent King made out a complaint charging
the Code, as he had endangered the life an
health OF a minor.
When Jimmy got to the Centre Street Cour,
and was arraiRned before Magistrate Simms
his conscience smote him., and he cried and du
his knuckles into bis eyes. When asked. wha
he had to say he cried harder. and finally blurte
out:
II guess I got no more than I ought to hav
got"
Magistrate Simms cross-questioned him r.
garding his parents treatment, and elected tn
statement tn at tying him to the weight was tn
worst punishment he had received. Tailor
through his lawyer, admitted having chaine
the boy, but pleaded his incorrigibility In e,
tenuation. The Magistrate held Talon in $50
for examination to-day.