The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-30
ABEL LENY IS
A GREAT ROVER
LEFT HIS HOME IN NEWARK, n
j., LAST JULY.
Since Then He Has Travelled Exten-
sively in the West and Has Been in
Canada on the North and as Far
as New Mexico on the south--Ar-
rived in This City from Bingham
ton on the Step of a Lackawanna
Fast vestibuled Express-Is Now
Returning to His Home.

a 1l-year-o old Jewish boy was found
yesterday afternoon sitting OH the
steps of the fast Lackawanna vesti-
buled train which arrives in this city
from the west about $50 o'clock.
Here you, boy, where did you come
FROM" asked u special policeman as
he grabbed him by the arm
"Oh. | just blew in from Bingham
ton.' said the lad. II don't care If
you arrest Inc. The cops in eight
towns all over the country has pinched
me in the last four months and ~ half,
but I've never been sent up yet. Come
ON up and Wen see the Judge" and
he walked along mp with the officer to
Magistrate Howe's office.
Hello. judge, glad to see you. You're
a pretty nice looking man." said tho
1i.year-old lad. as he was ushered into
the magistrates presence. My names
Leny. Abel Leny. and I'm from New
ark, n. j. Ran away from home last
July to see the country and I've trav-
clled 5000 miles since that time. Been
arrested eight times. but no judge
ever had the heart To send me up.
Coin home now to see the folks"
After finishing this remarkable
speech, Master Abel Lcny sat down
in IA chair and put his feet up on
the window sill to await developments.
He was attired in Il cast-off suit which
he said IL newspaper man in Bing-
hanton had given him. The trousers
were 50 long that they were turned
up about Il foot and the yo,,ngster
looked as contented as If they were
tailor made.
SENT TO POLICE STATION.
Magistrate Howe questioned the lad
for a little while and sent him up to
the central police station to stay over
night promising to let him go in the
morning II he behaved himself
\ Tribune man saw Abel at the sta
tion last night and found him to be
a most prococious youngster. He is
perhaps about as conceited a lad as
one could meet in a weeks travel and
likes nothing better than to sit back
and tell all about what he's done and
where he's been for the edification of
an assembled crowd. He held forth
to the policemen for several hours
and seemed to be real sorry when II
came time to go to bed.
He is remarkably clever lad for his
age, however, and there is IA look in
his dancing black eyes which reveals
an innate shrewdness and keenness of
intellect. He's up to all sorts of lodges
and one Of his favorite tricks seems
to be to refer frequently to his "dear
mother" at home and how dearly oh
how dearly he loves her. AS he says
this he puts an affected sincerity into
his voice that must certainly have
succeeded in opening the purse strings
of many person in the last few
months.
The boy says he left home to see
the country and that since July he
has been in twenty-five states. He
has a diary in which he has kept ali
accurate account of all his travels and
q rerusal OF this, together with his
familiarity with western railroads and
cities would tend to bear out his story.
Hc says he has been as far west as
New Mexico and through Il large part
Of Canada as well as in nearly every
important city in the country.
FREIGHT TOO SLOW.
81 always ride ON passenger trains"
he said in response 10 an inquiry.
"Freights are too slow. l generally
ride like I did today on the back step
of vestibuled train so the trainmen
can't see me between stations
He says that he has lived by beg