The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-29
zap FOUGHT WITH His TEETH.
BACK no THE OHIO FARM FOR ~
YEAR-OLD SIGHTSEER.

birthday On BtIi Started a Gay Career u
Freedom in Cities West n East
Heed CuFdiing Tales o. LAfe In LoFain
at Last Afforded ths Police . Clue.
Twelve long years spent on the old farm
way out In Lorain county, Ohio made little
George McFarlane weary. To be sure, he
had everything q country lad could desire
but II wasn't enough. He wanted to see
the great cities he had read about in the
more monotonous became lif0on the farm
Then along oame the city boys TO spend
their vacations In Loraln. He listened 10
their glowing tales Of the bully times to be
had only In cities and he finally made up his
mind to beat 1t at the first opportunity.
Late last month the folks on the farm
gave q party in honor Of Georges twelfth
birthday. Among the presents was a crisp
o. bill, which was safely slowed away In
his little iron bank. It was an easy matter
for the lad TO abstract the two spot; the
money would start him on his way around
the world, he thought. 80 when the critical
moment for the getaway arrived he kissed
his mother good-by, told her he wa going
10 the swimming pool back of the farm
and trotted down the road. That was the
last seen Of him in Lorain county.
He set forth to visit the great cities he had
heard 30 much about, and he made good
He struck Cleveland, Buffalo and New York
had the time Of his life in zach Of the cities
and despite the fact that he was O country
zap, as lots of the city lads called him, he
got by all right. He might have been
an iex,,n- ktr..oIH No. ;P h. kxJnyk ~ek. tNko
a mixup with a lad who tried to bully him
down at the Cortlandt street ferry, whore
they were selling newspapers. There was
q scrap, and when the bully, who is four
years older than George put it to him good
and hard the lad remembered how they
fight out In Lorain county, where everything
getting the worst Of che fray and being no
opportunity to bite. And he bit good Fad
hard. The first law Of nature told him to do
the other fellow at all hazards.
But George hadn't reckoued on the oops.
The constable out In Lorain doesn't inter-
fere with fights and George wa not a little
surprised when Policeman Costello dragged
him of to the Church street station house,
where he was made a prisoner on the charge
OF assault. Leo James, 10 years old, of lit
West street. who vent d9wn to defeat
DCCd % 70 tldJ biicLo AT0
other weapons besides fists and feet, made
the complaint.
George told the sergeant that he lived at
the Newsboys' Lodging House and that he
had been a guest there ever since his mother
and father were burned to death In terrible
his W and his eyes filled with tears as
George let loose a string OF lies that would
stretch across the Brooklyn Bridge. A cop
was sent over to the lodging house to in
vestigate the lads stories.
Yap--dat's wot we calls him here. 4"
one OF the boarders told the cop, is q punkin.
He's bin a-spielin' a bunch o. Junk about de
wild West-he comes from dere all right.
cause youse can tell it wen he opens his
clapper-and he has q lot of de blokes here
buffaloed: But say, he don't know how ter
fight on de level; it's kick and scratch an
bite wild him every time he gifts in a mixup.
Hemay be able to scrap-he's licked a bunch
OF blokes round here-but he amt handy
wild his mitts. A guy wot's clever wild his
muokles kin. put 1t all over him. Youse
chewers into yer. Hes bad one, and OATS
- Tho cop got more information about
George. He learned that the younGster
had been telling weird stories about Indian
lights he had participated in out in Lorain;
huge snakes were everyday occurrences
there. Everything in the lads career
happened out In Lorain. The scene Of the
wild adventures related to the newsies at
the lodging house gave the cops a tip. The
up and it was found that one George MoFar-
lane, II years Of age, mysteriously disap-
peared from his home in Lorain county
In the latter part of July. The description
Of the missing youngster Tailed with that of
Besides fighting on the rough house
atvla the Van ron ht tho far1at vhap IL
comes to lying. For several days he handed
out a bunch OF stories to the police and the
officials of the Gerry society. He gave
them a different tale every day while they
were awaiting word from Lorain, always
denying he was the runaway.
Yesterday he was taken before Justice
McAvoy In the Children's Court and he
broke down and confessed the truth. He
told how he had run away from the farm
because he wanted to see the great cities.
He said he rode from Cleveland to Buffalo
In a cattle train and had a bully time on
the way feeding pigs and cattle. In Buffalo
he sold newspapers and earned enough
money to pay his fare to New York. He
arrived here q couple Of weeks ago and
was making good selling newspapers when
mixup with a fellow who couldn't take his
medicine without squealing.
Incarceration in the rooms Of the Chill
dren's Society has made George long for the
old home on the farm. He told the Court
yesterday that he was through with rowing
and that II he could only get out he would
make tracks for Lorain.
Il don't like IL up at the Gerry, Judge
he said. cause ! always. get into fights
with the Wops-they're the Dagoes, you
know They make fun OF me and say I'm
a pumpkin and then / Just pitch into them:
f'you will let me go III jump q freight and
get right back home. / can ride the bupp-
ers, or I hight get an empty going out.
But I'll get there all right
Justice McAvoy remanded the lad until
his reople or the authorities Of Lorain
county are heard from. Sentence on the
essarit charge was suspended.
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