Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-01
Small Watervi|Ie Boy Gets
Into Trouble.
Tries to Make His Mother
Think He Is Drowned.
She 0verhears the Plot and Refuses
to Act Her Part.

Tommy lives with his widowed moth
or II The section Of this city known as
Head Of Falls" Tcmmy is ten years
old and ne is filed 10 the brim with
mischief Mrs. Turc"tte has tried
hard L. keep TuInmy in school and has
even called to FER assistance the par
ISL priest Mrs. Turcntte is 4 very
busy woman with 1Ee Washings and
the office s,rubtir2s she perfol us
every day except sundays. Her hours;
at home are filled with care for The
tOu.' fathcrle-s tots. and consequently
when tho eldest. Tommy. Goes on a
taI.trUIl and don't do what his mo.n-
er Wants him t. do" life becomes the
harder for tho widow
Like niary another boy IL this CITY.
Tni2:nv has fallen to picking ~ stray
pickles h3 running on erranGs. Tommy
has Il limit to lis earning capacity
E"WtVe, and no appreciate increase
to the family cash box has come out
OF his >nasTodic employment. When
ne secures the car fare tn ana from
the ROLLER skating rink or the price of
admission 10 the motion picture show,
he lays off until III" next day.
Tommy Will run away from school
and il is doubtful if the city can raise
enough trudnr officers to keep Tommy
anywhere near in sight of the south
end educational institution.
Matters and things had been going
from bad to worse with Tommy and
his mother and yesterday the latter
took it upon herself To punish the lad
in q. way she had never before tried.
She took Tommy into the shed. gave
him Il dozen pretty hard raps on that
portion of his person which presented
the best opportunity and then sent him
upstairs to his room to remain the
rest of the afternoon. Tommy was
nonplussed by this departure from the
regular proceedings in such cases
made and provided and he felt badly.
He felt bad all Over but worse in some
places. His mother had apparently
become vicious. brutal parent and he
could feel, or thought he could feel. all
the love he possessed for her going
out through his Windpipc ana far out
across the great green country which
lies over beyond the river kennebec
Yes. Tomtny's heart achcd
lie sat down by the window and
S;;zed "Ut into the .buc ether. Far
away the horizon and sky seemed to
meet Wlrr" the beckuuing skies begin.
Tommy rt1d his d0pnl in that faraway
glance. y sudden thought came to
Elm. What boy ever lived with keen
hra!n vino never has been visited by
sudden thought. He would make his
mothers Heart ache as his heart ached
then. lie would show her. There would
be Weeping and Waiiing in the house
of Tur and At at once. There lay
tne cold dark river. the grand old
kenneh;c Stc.Gliu; silently past the
house on it's mission with the sea
More sudden thoughts and Tommy had
formed a plan. Ee gazed down into the,
bHcE court expecting Ia See Il play
mate pass. His hope was realized in
1t fe" minutes. He tapped on the WIN
dow. He hailed tn" lad in the court:
'I1ey Eddie. climb UP the shed
want To say something. Marin has
fastened M into the room and | want
to SIT square with her
Eddie climbed up To the shed rocf
over which the window of Tommvs
r"oln booked. The sum and substance
ri the trick was simply Tpmmy's
scheme - send his best suit Of clothes
down 10 The rivers edge, whore the
was to be laid i'll an irregular
mass and then Eddie was to circulate
TIE report that Tommy had committed
suicide
1t was beautiful scheme and the
two boys arranged for a good scare
coming Mrs Turccttc's way. The
clothing was deposited on the river
shore and the report was started. Tom
MY had escaped from the house by the
window and the shed roof. Tommy hid
in the shed of a neigh Dor. Several Wo-
men called upon Mrs. Turcotte to learn
if indeed her Tommy had gone across
the Stygian river. She had sent Cor
the clothing and il WAS Enthusiastically
tina; of her boy. Tommy. crouching bc-
hind some barrels in the shed of
Thcmas Dutellc heard Mrs. Dutelle
relate Ter oXIerienc" at the Turcotte
h pmc.
'Why Sarah is tckled half to death
to think She has got rid of that boy.
never saw anyone so pleased over
anything. She says she is glad Tommy
didn't take the clothes along. She isn't
going to have the river dragged for
she says Sh" will let the river give up
it, dead in its own good time. She said
I" ne. oh. Mary, yoJ don't know