Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-26
TELLS STORY OF KIDNAPPING
YOUTH SAYS HE WAS SPIRITED
AWAY FROM BROOKLYN.
Declares Abductors Tried to Make
Him Rob House in Richmond.
Starts for Home.

A tall. red-haired boy called at police
headquarters last evening and told how
he had been kidnapped on the streets of
Brooklyn. n. Y. last Thursday morning
by two unidentified white men and taken
to Richmond. Va. Where. he stated. the
men made an effort to compel him to
theft, he said, and succeeded in tramping
to this city.
MY name is Robert n Burchell.'' the
visitor told Sergt. Carter. in charge OF
the office, and my home is at 7S6 Jefrer-
son avenue
The stranded youth was made COM
Portable at the municipal lodging house.
and this morning c. A. Baker. repre-
senting a Brooklyn shoe firm, friend or
the Burchell family, called and took
charge of him. Burchell accompanied MIR.
Baker to the office of Inspector Board
man and related the story of his ad-
venture. and Mr. Baker put Burchell on
the 10 o'clock train and started him
homeward.
Captured While on Street.
II am employed in Brooklyn at S.
weekly Burchell told Inspector Board
man. land while on my way to work last
Thursday morning two men jumped from
cab and grabbed me. had been talk
ing to friend and was about to leave
the corner when the cab stopped and
the driver inquired the way to Fultop
avenue. Before l could reply to his
question the two men grabbed me. put
me in the cab and drove to the ferry
Burchell said his life was threatened
by the men. and he was afraid to make
an cutlery. although he says they brought
him from Jersey City on a fast train
reached this city Thursday evening, the
youth declares, and spent the night In a
vacant house near the Union station.
leaving here Friday and going to Rich
Richmond, he said, that the men wanted
him to rob house and he refused. They
had taken from him what money he had
about Stand he was compelled to tramp
out Of Richmond.
Walks to Alexandria.
Yesterday afternoon. about o'clock.
the youth told Inspector Boardman he
reached Alexandra and saw Lieut.. Smith
of the police force there. The lieutenant
gave him a meal and furnished him
transportation to this city, advising him
to call at police headquarters. Burchell
went to- the first precinct police station
when he left the electric car at 18th and
d Streets telling his story to the police
men there. and afterward going to head
quarters to see Inspector Boardman.
When he reached here from Alexandria
his clothing showed that he had been In
the mud.
The youth was questioned closely by
Inspector .Boardman and he stuck to his
story.
NEW YORK. October 26.-Robert H.
Burchell. who has informed the Wash
fngton police that he was kidnapped from
Brooklyn, is the son. of Brooklyn me-
chanic. who said today that the boy has
twice before run away from home and
gone on what he calls religious pilgrim
ages" This time he disappeared last
Thursday morning. when he left home
ostensibly to go to work. His father said
today THAI he cannot afford to continue
to pay his sons fare back to town from
these trips and will let the young man
walk back home. No credence is given
to the kidnapping story at his home.