The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-28
DIMINUTIvE SUNNY
JAILoR PETTUs MAY CALL FOR FINER MESH.
Fourth of July Gave ssunnys Ricb- ardson Pyrotechnic Penehant and When Morality Was
 Dwarfed the Lad Erred

Great dificuIty is being experienced by Jaiior Pettus in keeping behind
 the bars Sunny Man, alias, or alas, Sunny Richardson. a narrow headed. thin bodied negro boy who can claim to have lived in the world only ten years. Sunny was arrested yesterday on the charge of robbery after a pro- longed chase by Constable Paul Rap port. He is now In a cell at the jail but such is his stature or his peculiar lack of stature that no one can pre-. dict that he will stay there. Jailer Pettus was yesterday grumbling be- cause he did not have rat trap to attach to the boy. the cracks be- tween the bars of the. cell being almost insufficient to restrain Sunry.
 Sunny" said one af the deputies as he gazed at the grimy face and seowllng glance which the boy cast around the jail office&-"How muddied his mother must have been when she named him" And as men will when it is hot and sticky and they have noth- ing to do, several of the deputies be- gan a faeetious discussion having for its focal point the proof of the utter inappropriateness of the appeilation by which the boy went.
 After some experience with Sunny, Jaiier Pettus had plausible explan- ation to offer for the name assigned. That boy" he declared, lis called Sunny because he is like the sunlight. Now a ray of light can go through the smallest creviee which Is crew ice and though Sunny will have to play second fiddle in that particular he is almost inhuman in his peculiar abolity as q go-between."
 In addition to a claim to physical qualities most wonderful, sunny has q bright mind and 1t Is his fault that he has not also at tEs present a bright outlok. Dutifully accompany ing a negro washerwoman to the residence of Mrs. M. H. Norman. July 3. Sunny helped her with the clothes baskets and wash paiaphernalia. talk ing occasion while in the house to peer sharply into all arrangements. He left the house with the woman but after short interval returned and with the Knowledge gained dur ing his visit located S3.5O which he took away with him. It was the day preceding the fourth of July and 1t is thought that the prospect of fourth without firecrackers so dwarfed Sum- ny's morality that desire easily leap ed over 1t, to his misdoing.
 Several days ago warrant was sworn out for Eunny's arrest and since that time Constable Paul Rapport has been assiduously looking for him. Catching sight of the much wanted small person yesterday morning in Boguehomme, the constable began a wearisome pursuit, for through cracks in fences Sunny darted with grace, and nonchalance while the constable, and he is not a large man. was com peIled to go over the obstacle--to him, not to Sunny. So they had 1t, many fnces crossing the flight of the boy. Finally the constable overlook him and, breathless. informe dhim in few but forceful words. chat he was cauget.
 There are many sides to the char acter of every person in the world and finding himself, in the emergency. physically helpless. Sunny sharpened his intellect. In a few minutes Con- stable Rapport, who has the reputa- ton of being one of the most astute detectives in the city. was almost persuaded" that Sunny was not the child he was looking for. and the boy might have obtained his release on the spot had not negress come along at this time and identified Sunny as the "boy wanted"
 That was the ''unkindest cut of all" and the incident sealed the fate of Sunny. Since being incarceratsd In the jail he has ceased to trouble Con- stable Rapport Jailer Pettus Is now his unwilling guardian.