The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-27
MENDACIOUS JOHNNY NAYLOR
FOLLOWS HIS ARTFUL COUSINS
ADVICE WITH SUCCESS.
First Ue Proceeds 10 Lose Himself. and
Then by Pf,inE Fa'sehOOd Upon False
hood He Succeeds In Getting Him.
self Admitted TO . (hiidren's Home.

self Admitted 10 . Children's Home.
He was Just a little motherless waif from
Navy street, the matron OF the Brooklyn
Children's society in Schermerhorn street
thought, with the saddest story of death
and Are and starvation and cold, and bare
feet and dispossess that she had ever heard.
There was no misery on the list that the
little fellow from Navy street didn't put
in his story. He told 1t to the matron
while she was going over him with the
spray hose and the scrubbing brush and
the hne-tooth comb. A matron's tear
or two fell on the waits shoulder and helped
out the spray. But the little waif lied
faster than the matron could scrub. He
IL only Q years old. He wanted to become
an innate Of the children's home because
his cousin had told him that 1t WINS the
best place in Brooklyn for grub and fur.
The cousins name Is Willie Lahey. The
waits name Is Johnny Naylor. Willie's
mother Is Johnny's mothers sister. Willie
has run away three times in the last W
months and has wound up in the home OF
the Children's society each time much to
his delight.
Mrs. Naylor went TO call on her sister.
Mrs. Lahey Of Navy street. on Monday,
taking Johnny with her. Willie told his
cousin all about the fun he had al the Child
ren's society and advised him TO try It.
"You have to lose yourself first said
Willie L-ayey, 'and II YOU can't lose your
self Just say you're lost and cold and that
mothers dead and then you'll get a pile
Of wheat cakes a foot high and s~omebodyH
wash you with n hose, and It's more run
than going to a fire. IL you leave your
shoes at home before you get lost you get
found quicker and get more cakes. Don't
forget 10 say that mothers dead and the
j~anitor's swiped the furniture.
With these instructions from his cousin
Johnny MAYOR ran away TO he a httie waii.
He left his shoes and stockings under his
the gutter once or twice 20 get a real neg
lected look. h rain did the rest.
johnny got to Adams and Willoughby
streets and then decided he was lost enough
to suit the most discriminating KIND q
charity. He Law down on the sidewalk
and began to %whimper..
Policeman Balfe Of the Adams street
station, big, good hearted and with chill
dren Of his own. came along and was fooled
by Johnny. who told this story:
Il amt got no father or mother and no
shoes. They're all dead. Mother died
three months ago and they put her IN the
ground and put flowers on top. Then
father died and the house burned and ]
loet my shoes and the janitor put IN" beds
on the sidewalk and somebody swiped the
beds and I didn't have nothing TO eat since
father died in Navy street and no shoes
Policeman Balfe WAS 81 affected that he
took up q subscription for the boy at the
poica station and then carried him over
10 the dhildren's society for the night,
There Johnny told the same story To the
matron, getting only a little mixed a. 10
details and making his father die before
his mother. But nobody thought he was
a liar until his father went to the society
Yesterday afternoon and claimed him
Then Johnny confessed and told about
cnusin Wilie's story. Earlier In the day,
however, Policeman Bale. Who had feI
had about the waif all night, called at the
society and borrowed the boy long enough
20 have his picture taken With Johnny In
his arms.