The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
HUSBAND HELD UP THE SHIP
ON THE HEELS or HIS WIFE. THE
BOARDER AND LITTLE SAMMY.

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Jared the Boarder. let Him ia Again.
came Tearing Back with q Police
man and Nailed All Three OF Them.
The lines were being cast from the steamer
City OF Atlanta Of the Savannah Line yes
terday afternoon at the foot Of Spring
street. North River. when IA tall. hatless
man ran up the narrow gangway. A minute
later there was a series Of feminine screams,
followed by a volley OF curses, and the tall
man emerged from the crowd dragging a
man about half his size down the gangplank
to the pier. He had the other by the back
Of the collar and tossed hinfs 30 that
the little fellows feet oftentimes dangled
over the water.
Behind came a woman and a boy : years
old dressed in a white duck sailor suit.
This scoundrel 10 stealing my wife!"
the tall man shouted as he ran through the
long pier shed toward West street. Police!
Helpi PoIice,"
q trip for my health"
Presently. with the woman clinging Ia
one arm and the child swung over his right
shoulder. the short man came tearing back
Scattering packages, money and even a
watch in their wake. the three tumbled up
the gsngplsnk and disappeared in the body
of the vessel.
"That's a damn funny proceeding" said
Capt. johnson OF the Atlanta as he snapped
hia auatoh . ah,,t a,I oh f,1 At tha. laIap
Next came the tall man with Policeman
Edward Barry in tow
Hold the ship. for Gods sake. hold tn.
shipl" he shouted. This is a plot. A man
aboard is clipping with my wife and child. "
II took a twenty minute search to dig up
the other man, the woman and the child.
for now they we're very quiet. After every
other stateroom had been looked into a
.roomy cabin on the after deck was found
to be looked. All hands pounded IN il
vigorously, but there was no response.
The head steward found that IL was as
signed 10 no one. 50 the sea rchers felt sure
something was wrong.
Come out or | shoot" shouted Police
man Barry as he gave the door a final kick
and grinned at those abou him.
The door few open and there was the little
man pale az u sheet. Clinging to him were
the woman and the child. The child wept
aloud at sight Of the policeman. Every
body talked at once. Then there was a
long warning blast from the Nteamer's
whistle.
I'm not going to sea. " said Barry You
folks come with me TO the station house.
There's something wrong here. but I'm
blessed il can figure it out"
They went ashore and the boat sailed.
MY name is Abraham Gellend and Im
a merchant in Brooklyn said the tall man
at h station house. MY wife. two children
and I live at $50 Atlantic ven My wife
complained Of being lonesome, and for
company I took in this fellow He's a
salesman and is very polite. My wife got
to liking him better than me. Three week
ago l fired him out OF the house. Then my
wife went to the police our and swore
that had attempted TO killer. Magistrate
O'Reilly held me for trial in Special Sessions
upon this mans evidence The case is
DOWN for August 10.
II got bail and moved my trunk out of
the house The next afternoon | came
home. There was my fourteen-year-old
daughter Helen on the stoop crying. She
said that nobody was home i broke in
the door and found the place clea out
as a whistle. Even the piano. bureau
and bedclothes were gon My wife had
sold them to an a%uctioneer and cleared out.
Il lost all track OF them until to-day,
when a friend told me that the pair and
little Sammy. my SON. were going to Savan-
nah. was here. but they were slick enough
to wait until the last minute before going
aboard"
The woman. who gave her name as Nellie
T. Gellend. broke in by saying that IL was
all a lie. An explosion followed from the
two men and everybody talked at once to
Capt. Big Bill Hodgins. skipper OF the sta
ton house. In the middle Of the noise the
woman tainted.
shut upl Shut up!" shouted the per-
spring police captain You'll drive me
crazy"
He tried to get them to talk one at a time.
but as they wouldn't he locked them ell
up for disorderly conduct. The little man.
who had been pretty badly battered. said
that he was Louis Sohnier and that he
represented a tobacco house in Savannah.
The two men were put in the same cell.
too badly winded TO be dangerous. Sammy
was sent to the Gerry society rooms for the
night. Mrs. Gellend said the other child
was with its grandmother. At the night
court the husband was fined 81 and the
wife % and the lodger was SEN to the
workhouse.