New-York tribune., 1901-06-17
FATHER HAS son ARRESTED.
ELLIOTT BURRIs SAYS THE YOUNG MAN
WOULD NOT WORK

WOULD NOT WORN.
Theodore Burris n young whose father says
he IS only twenty years OF age. but who gives his age
twenty-three years is locked up in the Queens
County jail on a charge Of vagrancy made against
him by his father. The latter Is Elliott Rurris. n
broker whose Offices are In the Drexel Building
at Wall and Broad SITS. The father has alleged
In making the complaint that his son has no means
OF making living and has no visible means OF sup
port ana has been living In outbudings All this
the young man pronounces prepOsterous and
wrong. The prisoner is six feet in height and
looks II ne could his living at the most
laboriOus kind Of work. He says he has been
earning IT his fathers Office until he went out
to Interstate Park to look after his father, whose
health. he says. has not been good.
Young Burris. in speaking OF his arrest. said:
Friday father was away for while and 1
dressed up In my golf suit and was about to leave
,ne h"ter TO 90 & se ineet e & SodhE sfrKs
when father came back. although I had not ex-
him ana said ! was TO go to the city with him.
| said would go, and went 10 my room To change
suit that had for knocking about in | objected
TO this and compromised upon a rather worn blue
companied father arrested me. He officer
and City. I along quietly, as did not want
scene. Father followed. | was taken before the
charge read to me. l protested. but my father in
sisted, and the magistrate held me. There
was no one present but the MAGISTRATE. his
clerk. the oriicer my father and myself
Everything
The magistrate seemed inclined parole me
but father insisted that l be held. Then the
magistrate wanted to fix the bail at 500. but
objected to small and had il
doubled. although father wanted It made more
There coldness between father and myself
because time ago | engaged marry a
young woman down in w-England. She was
wel-to-do and pretty. | broke off the engage
ment for my own reasons. While there a
prospect of my being married father could not do
enough for me. AS soon the engagement
broken he treated me harshly. He has long been
supersensitive about our family dying out.
Elliott Burris. the father. seen last evening
at Sportsman's Park. He expressed regret that
the arrest of his his complaint had become
known. He said:
My falling into evil ways. He would
not work If he says he worked in my office he
says what is not true. | tried various ways to
keep him from bad company. Finally | brought
him here | had to go TO business daily His story
of my being sick Is wholly true l. wanted
Jail life to he harsh to him as might be- hoping
been engaged is news to | never heard that
he
Young Burris, while awaiting examination. occu-
pies cell in which Is also quartered Clayton, the
jockey who is civil prisoner the Jail because he
declines to pay Judgment obtained against him.
and who was arrested while riding at Aqueduct
The elder Burris was. when young, an athlete of
note He was one of the organizers OF the New
York Athletic Club and from 1869 to 1872 held the
championships at 100 yards and 220 Yards and also
at the half-mile distances ~ $3.50