The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-02-01
THE GENTLE ART OF LYING
PRACTICED BY 4 YOUTH OF 4 RO- MANTIC TURN OF MIND.

He Will Appear in the City Court This
 Morning -President-Elect Mckinley
 Told Him to Persevere-He Gets Money
 Without W WorlSing-Wants the Good Peo-
 pie of New Haven to Send Him Home.
 An unusually bright boy, who says that his name is Marion Joseph Parker, and that he is seventeen years old, will be arraigned this morning in the city court charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Parker, who did not give his correct name at the time, first made his appearance in New Haven about the middle Of De- cember He was sent to the reform school at Meriden and his case was continued until to-day
 He concluded last evening that he would tell his real name and communi- cated his intention to Signal Officer Began. When seen by a reporter of this paper, the boy said that he was born in San Francisco and that he
 
 of Denver St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, Norfolk, Columbus, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York. Parker says that his mother was a Spanish woman, who married an American. She died when he was about three years old and his father placed him in Protestant orphan asylum.
 T ran away from the asylum about three years ago." he said "T went to my aunt's, but found that I could not do better with her than I could with strangers so I thought I would go up country and make some money and then come east and enjoy myself
 Well l fell in with some fellows who showed me how to make money with out working; but I can give them points now"
 How much money have you made a day?" was asked Parker.
 "Oh, sometimes $2, often $4 and on good days $10," was the reply. Did YOU ever have a chum?"
 Yes" he responded, but only once. He would not work and I shook him."
 What story did you tell in order to secure aid?"
 "Oh, I said that I was trying to get back to Frisco; that my parents had brought me east and that they had died and left me penniless.'
 But that is a tailor made vest you have on Parker" said the reporter.
 You bet it is," he proudly exclaim- ed.' I never went around ragged and dirty. l had a whole suit like this, but they gave the pants to a boy who was leaving the reform school. These pants are the state's.' While Parker was telling this part of his story he was giving his cravat another twist to be sure that it was correctly tied.
 From whom did you get this money, Parker?" was asked the precocious youth.
 "Oh, from anybody and everybody. Pierpont Morgan gave me $2.50 once. Clancy was too busy the day I asked him.
 Did l ever see Mckinley? Yes, last year at Columbus. He was going into the capitol He patted me on the back and said 'Persevere my boy
 George Gould? Oh, he was up against me when I told him my story. He said, You get out of here. q was in Mark Hanna's office, but MT. Hanna was out. But I want to get back to Frisco, and that is the reason I am telling the | truth.
 What do I think of the reform school at Meriden? It is good place to make a boy fit for the penitentiary. I want to be a man, and if they will give me a chance l will be one.' | The youthful traveller, in explaining his mode of travel, said that he made his trips from place to place by work | ing the blind baggage" riding under and on the tops of cars; in fact, Wher- ever he could hide or secrete himself Parker, is it not dangerous riding on the bumpers of cars?" was one of the questions put to him. "Yes, but what is fellow to do? l have rode in every part of a train.'' Parker has an effeminate look and might easily be taken for a girl. His manner is not one of sincerity, and while talking he losses his head in a
  that he was in jail in Petersburg, Va, twenty days, which was the only time that he has been arrested until his ar rival here.
 Did you get any money here?" an officer asked the lad.
 "Yes, the good, honest people gave me money"
 "When you go to a minister for mon- ey I suppose you tell him that you be- long to the same church that he is a member of?''
 ''No. indeed; I tell him what church he is a member of before he has a chance to ask me.
 But say, I want to get back to 'Fris- co, and I want the good people of New Haven to help me. Tell them so in your paper
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