The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-04
SLEUTH'S SON
TRIES suicide
Child Of Jerome's Detective
Jacobs Takes Laudanum
in This City.
TELLS WEIRD STORIES
Says He Was in Harvard and
Conjugates Latin Verbs
by the Yard.
TELLS WEIRD STORIES

precinct police, while on duty last night
ness in lot at Montgdmery street and
Bergen avenue, shortly after ten o'clock.
He carried the ladsto the City Hospital
nearby, where the boy told the officer
that he was Fred Ellison, of Binghamp-
ton, New York, and fifteen years of age.
II swallowed fifteen cents worth of
laudnum," he said, and then lapsed into
unconsciousness.
SAY HE'S A FAKIR.
Warden Andrews said at the City Hos
pital this morning that the boy was q
ssfakir." A reporter, who saw the young
fellow, interrogated him for an hour du-
ring which time he gave his name as
Fred Ellison, Fred Allison and Fred Per-
cieval He at first gave his residence as
No. 513 Court street, Binghamton, n.
Y, then No. 53 Blackstone street, Cam
bridge, Mass; then Court street, Boston,
and finally New York City
II have no father and mother he told
the warden, and then after an hours in
terrogation told a story of having left his
home and parents ON Saturday last for
the sixth time.
Il have been wilful fool" he said,
s'and have almost killed my mother as
the result of my waywardness. l live
in New York City, and have attended the
City College there. Last Saturday ran
away from home, and on Tuesday pur-
chased Is cents worth of lauda-
mum in a. drug store at Sixteenth
street and Ninth avenue, New York City.
had to sign register to- get the stuff.
and gave my name as Wilson. also
wrote a postal card to my mother that
night telling her not to worry about me,
sas would be back again In d few weeks
SLEPT IN LOBGING HOUSES.
y bunamed around New York and Jer-
,sey City during the past few days, on
Monday night sleeping in the Montauk
lodging house of the city. was so weak
from hungre that / fell down in the
lot where the policeman found me last
night
Then you didn't try to commit suicide
asked
NO" was the answer, Il bought that
stuff for toothache.''
Why don't you go home to your pr
rents asked Warden Andrews.
FATHER DOESN'T WANT HIM.
'.They don't want me-my father don't
want me. He told me the last time that
if everleft my home again never to re-
turn and l never viii"
Il won't tell you my name," he de-
clared emphatically in answer to a qucs-
ton, I've disgraced my family enough.
My picture and name have been in the
New York papers before but it won't
happen again if | can help il"
On the sleeve lining of the boys jacket
was the number 100 in indeiible ink,
which he said he had placed there in an
institute for wayward youths of New
York City.
I'm not common nor are my people
ordinary. I've received a good educa-
tion, and they have done everything in
the world for me, but / guess I'm no
good, no use"
II was a freshman in Harvard Uni
versity for a short time, and although
liked to study, my rowing spirit got the
better of me and one day l left the
place.
did you ever study Latin?'
Indeed | did, he replied, and then
without any hesitation or halting he de-.
clincd Latin verbs, quoted Caesar and
Vigil, and gave selections from the
"Aeneid" until the reporter became al
most faint.
Warden Andrews communicated with
Chief Murphy in regard to his strange
patient, and was told that If the boy
refused all information as to himself, to
release him, which was done.
BOY CONFESSES.
The boy finally broke down and said
he was Ellis Jacogs, of No. ia West
118th stret. New York City, and son of
Detective Joseph Jacobs of District At
t0rney Jerome's office, the man who did
the sensational detective work in connec-
tion with the raids en- the Canfield and
Farrell gambling houses in New York
City on Monday night vi
i lied when ! said that / went to
Harvard and all those other places Z
confessed the boy, "but was a student
for a year at Duer College. Springfield,
Missouri. | left last September and came
to my fathers home in New York City,
where | had been until last Saturday.
Since then, as | told you before, have
been bumming around New York ana
this city, sleeping wherever I could. of
times in railroad stations Why dill I
leave home? Well, / couldn't get along
with my father When [ came home
from college last year he presented me
with a handsome diamond ring Two
months ago pawned it, few weeks ago,
my father found the pawn ticket and
ever since | have been having miserable
time. That's all there is to it,