The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-19
TOUGH ARTICLE rs FREDDY.
TERRORIZED A CHURCH EXCURSION,
GOT ARRESTED AND RAN !4W4T.


| Freddy, Chase After Him and His Capture
! The police Of the West Twentieth street sta
/ ton spent humiliating hour last night in
searching for II ycar-od hoy. Frederick Con-
/ nally by name. who escaped from the station
/ right under their noses. led three OF them q
btrak-nc'k chase for three long blocks and
| vanished They found him at last. but only by
| rcsOuiuE to- the unsportsmanlike stratugcm OF
lying in wait for him in the hall ofthe tenement
| house at 30 Wcst Twcuty sixth street. wocro
| his parents 1.-Two.
Fred COnnally was one Of the features OF tho
st Paul's Church excursion which set out yes
tcrday morning from the foot OF West Severn
| tccnth street on the barge Chester \. Arthur
| aud another barge. dashed one on each
side OF a tugboat. Fred Connally rucd
the Arthur. Wherever he went there
babies shrickcd. little girls screamed
shrill indignation and their mothers ragged.
lie fought with all the little BOYS whose clothes
were clean. his sunday best having been
disarrangCd and soicd before he went
to the pier When they begged for
mercy he imposed indemnity Ivy exacting
from them on pain OF another licking that
they 60 TO their Sunday school teachers
ank say things hatSunday- school teachers are
not supposed to hear from the lips OF little
boys. lie was at last seized by those in au-
thority and led to Policeman Kerrgan who
had gone along with the picnic to look after
Just such boys as he.
Young man." said Kcrrigan. Il hear ye are
actin In disordcrly manner. interferin with
the liberty and enjoyment Of others an gem
orally miscondurtin' yersclf What have ye to
say"
Frederick gazcd at him with n deeply serious
look in his heavenly blue eyes
"RuLber'r'rw said he aud grnned
The nice who had brought him
up to Kcrrigan retrratcd with suppressed
'H"" Young man. said Kerrfran, pinchins tho
aboard ship We nut crImiupIs in the hold. I'm
minded to nut ye u the hold
Gee. said Frederick. with a fash OF aroused
interest. wh"ro i it, never saw the hold
ola ship. Grand: hurry ~. Where is it 2
in twenty minutes aud again in half an hour.
kerrigan tried max king him stand in a corner,
the tug; but when he set the boy on his feet.
AFRAID no had spanked him almost top hard.
FREDDY pointed down mt something in tho
most Interested way!
Say what makes that thing go 30 fast ?"
but Il was s your mother If Td' ''e""'
Say you .d don't knew oH, much for COP re-
k"rrigan climbed over to the other barge and
dryGntly Erayel that Frcdcrrk s enemies
WHEN the barge $ @ans back to W% s Seven.
ternth street Just at dusk last night. and the
pier, four small figures came living down to he
ROADWAY and sramprreed up to the other
and and rho OF the pier The s.peratend1nt
they would not have to watch the gaugpark to
make sure that Frederick did not push anybody
people wandered slowly toward the street,
some ran forward, some ran back. The women
yelled and the mnn swore. But the stones
kSH FL d ""E b The %cy r H%or al rs Hna
With wild shrieks Of Joy Fred Connolly and
his thre" fTrroE[ters ran out into the gar.oi
empty their pockets The rersermtca null
through it on iho ' run, Tie boys. still scream.
ing with ,unrigh'eous gee. dashed back to the
arms arms of Policeman Collins Of III" Vest Twcno
ti"ih street station. who was standing in
"mey. mister, said Frederick. femme 60.
there's a lot OF bad boys down there chasn'
Collins said he guessed, they could stand of
heard from krrrigan and many Others o. the
erick. waiting noisy innocence. by the hand.
and led him to The station.
Behind the desk in tho front room OF the stu
ton. sat, Scrgt. Oliver Tins. the literary
was hTn .nyS We n hcs he nd as FE 1sor
rigibr y"nnG villain who has launched him
sell into the uuSaNDry sea OF rrlmas
Hes an outrageous bad young one" said
after n adS th@ arrest and ii Ike to drowned
over II" desk, with hir most Terrible frown
what ls your legal coEnom"n =
Freddy grinnGl He liked This big man
with the round voice; He cheerfuIlv told
SS f1 ind the %N%Tf aoH
them all down on Il piece, Of pancr
There cam" a ring at the telephone The
Sartr - INF M. oil I,r,N npI
saynC we'll We II "f tones hat T msae
tie windows rattle. Policeman Collins let 20
for a handkerchief and rubbed his face with IT,
with u sigh Of comfort he replaced n. hand
arm again. The hand closed ON air.
Collins nearly fell to the floor in his sur
iris" ite rHT to the SHg% Of the desk II tn"
gone TO watch SerRt Tins at the telephone.
Their" was no boy th"re Collins ran out to
sidewalk toward Eighth avenue. Down the
steps plunged The hIg pn!ireman,, yelling
Tnc shadow fairly lcaps,a forward as it sred;
Ladder Company y. in their house across the
street. ran to the door and t. the windows and
team it h. r it.
all saw, Freddy go flying across the brightly
Fn nSS nfs the Of hshh of HpsS h
chase ,, vas Policeman, ,SieinrinkSn. who
III.
the two. followed hy the rest Of tho crowd,
reached Eighth avenue they found Policeman
What's doing 2" he pufTcd
"Pris'nNr escaped" gaSpcd Collins. and point
ell TO white shirt waist TINT flashed under a
gas lamp well down toward Ninth avcnye.
That, amt nothn' but kid said EGhcrt.
tagging behind.
There's more nothn' in that kid than I
want to see in the divil's lifetime" responded
Collins. Then he stopped short, There was a
pedder's wagon standing beside the curb
Collins ran to the front wheel
Com" on. you fellers." he said 10 the other
POLICEMEN; get in :, VII get him now, sure
from the stupched driver, lashc! the horse
and the previously laden old rattlotrnr rock cd
and plunged over the cOhblestoncs. while the
shouting, yell ing popnlace trailed along behind
for half block
Meinnahen and EGhert couldn't keep their
feet in the back OF the wagon and tried to
steady themselves by grabbing Collins's
shoulders The result was that they pulled
him into n heap in the body OF tho wagon
and fell on him. But the driver by this
time had imhibph the spirit of the chase and
took hold. BY the time the policemen got en-
tangled themselves and stonped .sw"arlng they
were near Eleventh avenue. They saw the
runaway boy slip around tho corner and head