The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-06
Stone Pavement for Pillow
and Not tucked In
CAN'T FIND HIS PARENTS
Police Have a Peculiar Case on Theh
Hands, Following Discovery Of g
year-old curled Up in Front oi
the Tomasi Block.

Chilled and weak from exposure and
hunger, ne-year.old boy was found
fast asleep at o'clock this morning
on the stone pavement at the foot Of
the stairs which 10 down into the base.
ment Of the A. Tomasi block from the
sidewalk in front Of the building The
child was found by Alexander Petrie.
who resides in the block and who had
occasion to 40 into the basement As
ne descended the stairs and turned into
the doorway to the basement, he was
surprised to see small boy lying curIed
Up in the corner sleeping. Mr.. Petrie
picked the boy up and carried him into
the fruit store in the block and then
telephoned to the police.
The little fellow was barefoot. and
his clothes and face we're covered with
dirt, 30 tnat his features were hardly
recognizable. After the boy was turned
over TO Chief Sinclair, he told pitiful
story Of having slept in the doorway all
night, after being taken sick about s
o'clock last evening He said that his
father and mother moved TO this city
last week from Montpelier and that they
lived somewhere on Washington street,
but ne could not tell where. The chief
got the boy something to eat and then
started out to find his home. The boy
took the chief to the place on Washing
ton street where he thought he lived,
but no one in tnat vicinity knew him
or knew Of anyone having moved into
the neighborhood recently.
The boy gave his name as Harold An-
tonette and said his fathers name was
Mitchell Antonette. His father, lie said.
still worked il Montpelier and went
down on the elertrics every morning. He
said his mother also worked out and ae
thought she was working at house
near the carbarn. The boy said that he
/ sold papera on the street yesterday
morning and went home at S o'clock
last evening for his supper, but where
he went to get his supper he does not
remember He said he came down street
Iarain IN the evening aud about ! o'clock,
he thought ii was, when he suddenly
began to feel sick He said he felt so
bad that he could not walk and went
down into the doorway and laid down.
I'm Montpelier, he said. they lived on
Charles street, and mis- father worked
on the waterworks there
The chief is holding the boy at the
station. while a search is being made TO
locate his father on mother The boy
/ said mis- mother did not come home, ex-
leept on Sundays The boy has evidently
4 been a street urchin, as be was full OF
talk about moving picture shows. base
Iball games and the Jeifries-J0hnson
fight He told the chief that he would
give a hundred dollars to see the JEFF
fries Johnson fight pictures.
/ When officer Carle came to toe station
and saw the boy, he recognized him as
/ the boy he found asleep on seat in the
park about 10 o'clock Thursday even
| ing. He woke the boy up and asked him
where he lived The boy said he lived
on Washington street and could GO nome
lalone and started off that way. The
lcbief asked him why he could not 20
home now II he could that night. and he
said he could not remember where the
house is.
Boys Home Found
Just before noon Chief Sinclair found
that the lad IS from Montpelier and
that he had been missing there for threc
davs. He gave the right name to the
officers and will be taken back this eft
ernoon. He probably had been livis
an the street ever since his disappear
ance.