Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-28
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STOLE CHERRIES, AND THEN-..l
The Innocent Suffered. but He's
the Hero ofthe flour.

the Hero ofthe hour.
indianapolis News: The residents
of one neighborhood in this city prob.
ably never experienced n more excit.
ing time in their neighborhood thar
that of one afternoon, early this week.
when Herbert Sullivan, an 11-year-old
boy, was kidnapped, carried into O
house, bound hand and foot and kept
a prisoner for nearly three hours.
Several hundred school children sur,
rounded the house and demanded the
release of the boy, but all efforts in
this direction were futile until the
arrival of the district patrolman.
Even grown persons, including the
boys mother, took a hand in the mat.
ter, but they were unsuccessful.
Herbert Sullivan attends the public
school. When school was dismissed
he and two other boys spied a cherry
tree laden down with ripe and lus.
cious fruit. The house appeared tc
the boys to be vacant, and two of the
youths entered the yard and filled
their pockets with red cherries. Her.
bert Sullivan remained on the outside
or the lot and made no attempt to
seize any of the forbidden fruit.
Everything seemed quiet and Sc
rene and the two boys in the cherry
tree were congratulating themselves
on their good fortune, when they
heard frightful noises in the direction
of the house. There was a lively rus
tie of branches, followed by dull
thuds when the boys struck the
ground, but they scampered out of
harms way and soon disappeared
down the street. Herbert Sullivan
stood on the sidewalk all of this time,
not dreaming that he would be mo-
Tested.
: The noises which frightened the
other boys were caused by Mrs. M.
Gollibart, the occupant of the house,
and she ran into the yard after the
youthful foragers. Seeing that the
Hlieyes had escaped she made q lunge
in the direction of Herbert Sullivan
and captured him. He was dragged
into the house, bound hand and foot
with n clothes line and thrown into the
recesses of a pantry. The crying and
wailing of the frightened boy at
tracted the attention of the neighbor-
hood.
The cause of the trouble was soon
made known to everyone and the
house was bombarded with showers
of sticks and rocks by the hundreds of
school children who had gathered
around the house.
"A little girl sitting in a buggy final
~ volunteered to go after the prison.
er's mother, and drove hurriedly
away. When Mrs. Sullivan arrived she
demanded that her boy be released.
She was admitted to the house. but in
spite of her entreaties Herbert did not
get his liberty.
Word reached the police headauar-
tiers that there was some kind of trou.
bic in Park avenue and Patrolman
Montgomery was told to investigate
He heard both sides of the story, but
as neither woman would agree to
make out an affidavit, he said he
could not do otherwise than demand
the release of the boy. Herbert was
taken from the pantry, and, when the
ropes We're removed, welts and bruises
could be seen about his wrists.
When he appeared outside of the
house, about 6 o'clock, a great shout
went up from the hundreds of school
children, and he was dragged from the
grasp of his mother Some of the
larger boys wished to carry him on
their shoulders, but the cooler heads
interfered and he was allowed to &C
home.
Herbert Sullivan is the hero of the
hour among the school children. Les
sons are forgotten and il will be some
time before affairs are quoted down
among the children.