Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-07
A l'Il. D!lRUlNKARD AT FIVE,
SAD ''el[1' CASE OF TIMOTHY SULLIVAN. a
.5 sz..1- LITTLE ILLINOIS Boy

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a addicted to Liquor, IL q Cisnrette
f1end, Smokes Pipe and Cigar ana
Cnews Tobacco-Now Incarcerated
In Children's Home.
Drunkard, cigarette fiend, tobacco
Ene"er and smoker of pipe and cigar
Timothy Sullivan, five years old, lies
hseiess on couch in the Industrial
Home For Children at Woodstock. ILL.,.
as one OF the most striking cases of the
KIND IN the annals of infant victims of
drugs and liquors, says q writer in the
Chicago Tribune.
Tiny TINS mother died in Elpin
! last September. The death caused no
comment outside Of the immediate
nelghborhood. She was not all moth
er might have been, but the dead may
j rest. The father was laborer addict
! ed 10 drink. 1t was from him that the
boy Is said to have acquired the habit
/ OF smoking and drinking. And he
smoked and drank like q veteran.
One day the father deserted the bow.
Fear may have caused the fight, for
the child and the father in a drunk
en- stupor in the mean little cottage day
after day had caused growing CON-
ment. No one knows where the father
went. When he was gone, however,
the state came to the rescue. '"Tim-
mie,' as he calls himself. went before
Judge Southworth of the county court
at Geneva.
| WRIT u,
ch1ld's degradation and to the wretch
edness and squalor of his home. Men
and women testified to having seen the
child drunk, to his smoking cigarettes
and cigars, to his taste for both beer
and whisky.
The judge was wonder struck In the
effort to corroborate one phase of the
| abnormal tastes of the child he was Of
/ Tered cigar in the presence of the
court. The child seized it eagerly and
told the judge that of all things he
liked cigarette best.
| The judgment Of the court was that
Tiny Tim should be sent to the Chica-
go industrial home at Woodstock, ILL.,,
and there he went in the care of Mrs.
| Styles, an officer of the court There
for over a month Jimmie has made his
home with Matron w. e. Bardwell,
wife of the manager Of the institution
and mother to the forty-fve children
! whom fate has made homeless else
i where
| Cigarette victims are not new to the
home. They have been numerous
! enough there that the matron at
glance can mark them. But by all odds
Jimmie is the youngest victim of the
"cot1in nail'' that ever has come to the
notice Of the management
When he was registered at the home,
he weighed only twenty eight pounds.
He had just two moods-placed in a
chair, he would sit there hour after
hour. making no move nor asking to be
moved or fed. or he would stand in one
spot as long. with never a complaint,
or, on the other hand, he would become
offended at some Of the little ones max
ing a home in the place and would
pOunce upon them like fury, using
his nails upon his victims faces with
tigerish effect.
In the main the victim of the child's
nails would be technical aggressor.
He would have bumped into Jimmie or
touched him with an elbow or crowded
him in bed. When the victim had done
so, he found the way Of the transgress-
or to be hard indeed. Thus one of the
first movements toward the disciplin-
ing Of Jimmie was the cutting Of his
nails close and smooth to the skin.
This, with an occasional slapping of
his hands after an attack, virtually
had robbed Jimmie of the one interest
ing phase of his character, when the
breaking out of the measles in the
home and the incubation of Jimmie
with the disease put him wholly out of
the fight
! Today Jimmie is referred to by ma
iron and attendants in the home as one
of the most pitiful cases within the his
tory Of the place. He was slower than
any other child in the home in Clear
ing up from the red rash left by the
disease. His little lips were blistered
as. with a hot iron, and his close
trimmed finger nails were swathed in
bandages to prevent his picking at his
blistered lips. He lies bolstered up with
pillows, with brown eyes rowing about
the room slowly, showing a shade Of
interest in most things, but without
ability to tighten the expression Of his
face at anything pleasing to most chill
! dren.
! G0nd Snrrestinn