The evening times., 1900-01-23
A BOYS STRANGE STORY.
4 Blind Guardian Furnishes Him with
Heavy Cane.


! NEW YORK. Jan. 23.-Dr. John T. Thel-
/ berg a blind physician. who has an office
/ At % West Thirty fourth Street. and lives
/ az he Waldorf-Astoria was a prisoner 10
( the West Side police court yesterday,
{ charged With beating a boy OF fourteen.
who was taught TO call himself Arthur
/ Magnet and who bslivCs his name Is some
( thing else.
The physician. who is wealthy admits
/ punishlrg the boy with a cane but as-
( seTts that as hts guardian he has perfect
righ, 70 do so. The boy, he says. IS sew
/ enJeen years old.
I The Gaming incident took place in the
( doctors Office on January is. The boy had
/ been living ar the house Of a Miss Barton.
al 81 West Thir.ietb Street She Was
asked by the physician 10 take the boy %
. his Office. She did 50 and as soou as he
entered his office the doctor seized him and
beat him over the head, shoulders. and
+ legs with a gold-headed cane. which broke
under the force OF the blows
arthur went home and another boarder
I in Mrs. BartoH's home took him 20 the
/ West Side court. where be told his story to
I Magistrate Cornell. who sent him o the
rooms Of the Society for the Preve2:iCn OF
Cruelty 10 Children. with the re4ues, tE1t
his story be invesii gated.
His body was covered with bruises, and
Mrs. Barton confirmed he story Of the
beating. The physician admitted IT, and
upon this information. obtained by An
agent. Nr- Agnew. Magistrate Cornell is
sued an order OF arresr for the phy sician.
/ The agent went on sunday TO he Waldorf
I
company hIm 10 court yesterday morning,
and kept his word.
The physician was represented By coun-
! sell who requested an adjournment until
f tomorrow, and Magistrate Mott paroled
/ him until that time The BOY was sent
/ back 70 the society's rooms
Arthur is pleasant faced and intelligent
beyond his years. Il am between fourteen
and fifteen years old" he said Il don't
. know where ! was born OF who my par
ents are Ny first recollection Is Of living
with a Mrs. Frazee, ~ No $ HoptCu Ter
. race Washington Street. san Francisco.
When I was about four years old @ man
. came ana tried TO get me away from her
. but 1 continued 10 live with her until about
six years ago when Dr. Thelberg came TO
her house and told her that ne had right
. 10 take me away. He showed legal papers.
+ and Mrs Frszee told me he was my father.
. He said. I did not say that
/ "Dr. Thelberg took me 10 Chicago. where
We met Mrs. Thelbc-g. and she came on %
/ New YO-k with us. She is a teacher at
/ Nsssar College. Her daughter Elsie lives
I with her.
J In Chicago the doctor told me my name
/ was Arthur Magnet the boy continued.
/ He kept me at school at Chappaqua y
I Y. and Amherst. Mass. and for Two years
on Idrm at GTeeupOTt. y. Y In June.
] 1895. he placed me on the school ship St
| Mary and I remained on her until last
/ October. He told the captain that I was
( sixteen years old. He wanted me 10 take
/ a graduate course on the ship. hut
they wouldn't take me when they found
/ was so young.
Then he took me to the West ThiTJieth
J Street address. and arranged for my board
| and lodging He told me I must find q Job
on shipbOard and go to sea. / got a job
on a ship about TO sail for South Africa.
but ran away after working two days lust
. before she sailed. The doctor was angry
at this. / got two other positions in
stores but he would not let me keep them.
/ and told me ! must so 20 sea. Then came
our meeting at this Office
Mrs. Barton said she had only recently
bought the house where she lives, and that
. Arthur had boarded with the woman who
had owned il before her. She Was told
she said. that DIT Thelberg was the boy S
/ guardian She said the doctor told her he
I only took charge Of Arthur out OF kind
/ ness. because he had known his father.