Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-04
YOUTH CONFESsES
TO THE DECEPTION.
Vernon Wiltshire Admits That He
Told Chief Barlow
"A Lie.
WAS TENDERLY CARED FOR
AIatron Oxford Prepared Special
NJ Meals for Him AMI Police Surgeon
Gave Him the Best Attention.

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After having been cared for by the
police for over a Week, and given daily
medical attention as well as the best
food tina could ne procured for him,
Vernon Wiltshire this morning stood,
before Chief az Police Barlow, his benc-S
factor and almost without shame cons
fcsset himself to- be-. even With his
sEo Wish Years Of the most plausible
and deceptive iinpostors the police have
mad to deal with. Tic receipt ola let
ter this morning by CHIEF Barlow
brought short silrift for the boy, and
despite his broken arm he viii have To-
move on, If he is found iii Salt Lake
after lark tonight no will still have
the nolice station as his abode but in Al
different manner to which he has oc-
fcupied it forsthe&p past week. &
z Last Friday night Wiltshire. n youth
of about 516 years Of age, appeared at
the police station witilsa broken wrist.
I He told u story OF how While sleeping in
n car on a siding between Salt Lake
and Murray he had been attacked by
three men, whom he thought were Of
licers or nightwatchlnen. He asserted
that without Il word being spoken one
of the men struck him over the head
and another beat him over the wrist
With a. revolver until the bone was
broken. The hoy gave Z his fathers
name and address as Alex Wiltshire, So
Magnolia avenue. Jersey City, n. j..
and that the father was employed as
an engineer on the New York Central
railroad. According to the boy he
had left home TO see the country, and
had been tramping his way,
CHIEFS SYMPATHY "a REUSED.
The boys appearance and his
straightforward manner OF telling his
low and the officers, and he was placed
in the emergency hospital and attend
ed by DIR. II. b. Steele. Since then he q
has had full liberty and has spent his
days in sight -seeing, returning to the
hospital for his meals, especially pre-
pared for him by NIatron Clifford, and
for his ibedEat night.
w WhenShel WA; received into the hos
pital Chief Barlow sent a telegram
to the address nj the father, as given
by the boy and as the day passed
without a reply, the chief began to
wonder. Today a letter was received
from Robert Crockett. No. SIS Magnol-
Ia avenue, Jersey city. winch was Il
a complete expose of the lad,
The writer, who stated that he is
the uncle or the hoy, Informed Chief
Barlow thai Wilshire's father and mo-
ther$died several years ago, and that
they had never lived in jersey City.
The falnly4llome had been at Coyine-
ton, KY, where the boy lived with hisS
grandparents after tlle death of his
father and mother. The letter con-
Guided by saying don't send the boy
here, because. don't want him.
When Chief Barlow called the boy
before him this morning and told hin,
the information he had Just received
the boys only shame was shown in
Exchanging of the head and the bare
ly audible reply Of II don't know"
to the questioning of the chit
When Chief Barlow~put the blunt
question, Nov you know you have
been lying to us. Why did you do it ~
the boy was silent, and the questions
about his parents,sif they We're dead
or not. brought only the mumbled II
don't know =
( The little customer squirlneh under
the reference to what had been done
for him here and the care given him,
and when Chief Barlow ended the
talk by telling him that he had to
leave the city before dark or he would
be arrested the boy showed his relief
by a hurried departure.