The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-14
ARTHUR WOO TANG
IN CHILDREN'S HOMH
Put Off Train After Running
Away in Search Of
Adventure. 4
MOTHER, IN HER ANGUISH,
UNFOLDS STRANGE ROMANCE
Deserted Friends to Marry News
ark Celestial and Gave Her
Child New Husbands Name.

THE EVENING STAR todny FOUND
little Arthur Woo Tang, the 9-year-old
boy who was believed to have been kid
mapped from his home at 30 Lafayette
street. He was returned to
his white mother and Charles Woo
Tang, his Chinese stepfather. A photo-
graph published exclusively in tho
Morning star aided in the missing lads
Identification. The lad was located In
Jersey City.
The little fellow was not kidnapped
at all. as his frantic mother believed.
He just ran away again, for the second
time in two years. Mrs. Tang had
spent tow days and nights crying for
] him.
/ Arthur Is so small he ooks not over
/ five years of age. The husband of his
white mother Is a Chinese merchant,
with a prosperous business at 26 La
! fayette street He has kept his family
! at 26 Lafayette street.
/ There might have been romance In
the mothers life. There was some-
thing. which now she will not share
with the public. that induced her to
| give up the father of the boy. marry
Woo Tang, give the Celestials name
to her son and abandon her white
friends to mingle in the society of the
Mongolian and his friends.
| Arthur Tang Sunday evening last
was missed from his home. His mother
/ Immediately believed that he had been
/ kidnapped. He is bright little chap,
with sun-burned skin, big brown eyes
and tangled hair.
Star Picture Identified Boy.
The Morning Star printed the lads
picture today. That was the clue
which resulted in the finding of the
child. A reporter of THE EVENING
! STAR recalled that such a boy was
picked up by the Jersey City police on
last Sunday evening, and had been
sent to the home of the Society for
/ the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
at 1863 Grove street In Jersey City.
THE EVENING STAR reporter
called at the home and had a talk
with the boy. Yes, he said his name
/ was Tang and that he lived in Lafay-
ette street. The Jersey City police
| thought he meant Jersey City instead
of Newark
Mrs. Tang was taken over to jersey
City today by an EVENING STAR re-
porter. and her boy was returned to
her. The meeting was touching. She
snatched the hoy up in her arms and
for several minutes was overcome
that she could not speak.
Tells How He Disappeared,
When they were brought back to
Newark the boy told how he had van
ished. He said he had seen two China
men in LAFAYETTE street Sunday after
noon and he followed them. When they
boarded a train he boarded 1t. also.
One of these men was the cousin of
Woo Tang, his stepfather and he did
not know the boy had followed him un-
til they We're on the train. Then the
cousin thought he would take him on
into New York with him, leave him at
a friends house in Chinatown and call
for him in the evening and return him
to his home in Newark.
But at the Pennsylvania ferryhouse
in Manhattan the boy got lost in the
tumble of teams. wagons and pedes-
trians and the steDfather's cousin
could not find him. He thought he had
gone home.
When the boy saw he was lost ne
thought he was going back into the
same ferry house, but got into the Jer-
sey Central ferry, a block below, IN
stead At Communipaw he boarded
train, thinking he was going back to
| Newark, but the conductor put him OH
because he had no ticket. 1t was there
that the police saw him wandering
about and sent him to the S. p. Q. 2.
| home.
Mrs Tang said today that she was
unable to express her gratitude TO
THE EVENING STAR for finding her
boy She had been on the verge OF q
nervous collapse, and when her boy
was restored to her her Joy was ur-
r strained.
Mrs. Margaret Read, matron at the
S. P. C. C. home in Jersey City. took
good care of the lost youngster and
saw that he wanted for nothing dur
| ing his stay with the society.
| Rubber Hose and Lawn Mowers.