The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
MRS. ~URQUARHARD' A LEUTH
TAXES CHARGE or defective
HUNT FOR RUN4H4I BOiS.

Her Son. Aged n. and l2-Sear-Oid Amos
Norton Have Run on Entire II. %. r.
Detective Force Put At Her Disposal
City DE, ectives Also In the Game.
The Brooklyn police and a large force OF
the private detectives OF the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company have been detailed
to search for ~eight-year-old Eddie Urquar-
hardt. son Of Donald Urquarhardt. secretary
to President Edwin W. Winter of the b. k.
4. The boy disappeared on Tuesday with
Amos Norton, twelve-year-old son of a
civil engineer living at 5O7 Myrtle avenue.
The Urquarhardts reside in the Pouch
Annex at Si5 Greene avenue. Brooklyn.
The two boys failed TO come home on
Tuesday night and a search was begun
for them late that night. Yesterday morn
ing President Winter placed the entire
detective force Of the b. X. T. at the dis-
posal Of his secretary and they together
with the Brooklyn police made a thorough
investigation.
Mrs. Urquar hsrdt did the greater part
of the detective work yesterday. She
lea rned that her son and Norton had been
pla ying trllant from Public School IS, at
Lafayette and ClassOn avenues. during
The month Of May and the greater part
Of this month. On Tuesday at noon the
boys appeared and were sent to Principal
Behan. The boys didn't go TO the princi-
pals Office and ran away, leaving their
hats behind.
Mrs. Urqua rhardt looked up the boy
with whom her son and young Norton
had been most intimate. He was Willie
GOetz. who lives on Greene avenue.
He admitted that he had been invited to
join the runaway party, but backed out.
lie said that the plan was to spend the first
night camping out in a shanty in the rear
OF u steel works on keap street
Mrs. U~rquarhardt with several B. X. T..
sleuths hurried to this shack in Mrs. UrquAr-
hardt's automobile. Strewn about the
shed were tin cups and pans and uneaten
food OF the cracker, cheese and bologna
variety. The boys. however were moi to
be found and no one about the place could
he found who had seen them
Again the GoetZ boy was cross-examined.
He said that the plan for the second day
was 10 pitch camp and hide in the unlaid
pipes for the salt water mains that are to
run through Fort Greene Park. The pipes
were there and traces Of youthful habita-
ton. but no boys. Mrs. Ur%quarhardt
yesterday afternoon stationed two r.. r. L.
detectives to guard the shed in the rear
Of the steel works on keap street and she
scattered nine sleuths al different parts of
Fort Greene Park. She also detailed detec-
tives al all ferries and the Brooklyn end
of both bridges. but at a late hour last
night nothing had lSeen heard from the
runaways. ~
Mrs. Urluarhardt learned from a sister
Of the Norton boy that the two boys had
been running errands for a Myrtle avenue
druggist for several weeks. The druggist
said he sent the boys on many errands.
paying them for the work they did. He
said that the boys were hustlers and gave
satisfaction as chore boys. The druggist
said he ina gined the boys were simply work
ing TO pick up pin money TO use on their
vacations.
Young Urquarhardt when he left nome
WAS dressed in a Bingham Buster Brown
suit. with a brand new pair OF patent leather
shoes on his feet. The Norton boy wore
a dark mixed suit with black shoes and
stockinRs.