The sun., 1910-05-31
YOUNG GOULD TRIES TRAMPTNG
EDWIN'S OLDEST SON GLAD 90
4 POLICE STATION Red.

1 AANNAAAaN ~ MHAAAA = AaNNN -ENANANlN
say u was Just q Recess and q
Car sent % Meet Tim Missed Hlm.
Say. oflcsr.- began q lanky youth o7
seventeen years. with blisters on his fest.
and dusty shoes. TO Police Captain Thomas
W. Grace. on the 'desk' at the New Brit
tain. Conn. police station a. . o'clock
Yesterday morning--sAy. Officer. I'm
eli in WIN you lst me sleep hsreP Nv
name is Edwin Gould Jr.. and I'm a
grandson Of Jay Gould haven't .
cent lett.
Capt. Grace Straightened up with a
snort and asked the young man 70 tsn
his first paragraph all over again. Where
upon young Mr. Gould. 20 Capt Grace
says. elaborated his story and related
that he was playing hockey from school
up at Pomfret Centre. about Atty miles
away. that he was tired Of the whole shs-
bang and that while a baseball game wAs
happening on Friday afternoon last he
had climbed over the school yard fence
and had started out TO hike back 10 New
York over the turnpikes.
I had $50 when started out on Fd-
day young Gould explained. which
was almost enough 10 buy q ticket 20 New
York on a passenger train; but ] was
afraid that 70 got on . train some Of tn
school people or soms cf my own iolka
would sss mo and send me back 70 Pom.
fret school
Edwin. a. he said. truly was an In
Policeman Gracs told his doorman n
Iet Edwin pick out the finest plank oo1oh
In the pOROs station But before Edwin
nodded into Sunderland he told GrAos
somsthing Of his wandsringA
I'm a hid. maybe Edwin said. -hue
I've seen a bit Of Broadway and I'm not
blowing about Il, I'm just telling you.
and 20 father sent me up here IN the coun-
try to this school At Pomfret three wesks
ago. There are about I7s boys there
and Il Was all right Tor q while. bot Il
didn't take long for the attractions Of tbs
country. even though it is spging. TO wear
on So quit
The boys have blaoklist at the school.
and
A what'' asked Grace, whose interest
vas growing.
"A blacklist repeated Edwin, and
FOR tho last week I've been on it for sons
reason So ] got sore and while tbs
baseball game was on last Friday I slid
over the fence with my % so and started
for New York. I wish | had the t3.s1
now.' ---- -.
i Capt Grace personally saw 20 IL that
Edwin was assigned 20 a choice cell in the
north tier Of the police station house.
The boy was sound aslesp about the tins
he struck the cell couch and he slept with
out moving until n O'Clock in ths fore
noon. Before he got up Police Chief
| Rawlings Of New Britain had got In touch
with members of the Gould family hsr9
over the long distance telephone. Georga
Campbell. secretary 10 Edwin Gould. sr.
told the chief that he would go up % New
Britain and take Edwin. Jr. hack 20 New
| York
When the Gould boy awakened he ~,
police station breakfast In a way tltt
hired man couldn't have beaten. Then
he came out % tho desk and told the irtsr-
ested COPS some more about his wonder
/ ings He did not know ~ this tune how
ever, that his grandmother. Mn GeorrB
ShrEdy. and his father were stre1king
across Connecticut in an automobile loo'-
ing for him.
When / was sent up o. this Pomfr-t
school. Edwin told the New Britain polio.
~ was my first trip away from hom" { 20
any length of time ! got the blues ~ y
few days ~ qGit On Friday u-i0g
the bGll game and walked along the rngLs
10 Wilhmautic I slept In harn tIere
Friday night
saturday morning / got up early IN
the barn AND - ted toward Hartford.
4 farmer told me that Hartford va
twenty-five miles away. but kept goiay
AZ day and got Q, Hartford in the after
noon stayed in Hartford Sturdy
night and part of sunday just looking
around at things
Then started out again for New York.
bat got mixed up in the roads and walked
back about fifteen miles over the road
had just come. got 20 place at lAst
which | was told was Vernon. and N
turned around and came back walking
through Hartford again. And then l
walked and walked and walked until
got here, and I was broke and all in. AZ
Vernon sold a S7z rAinOOat for 81 20 .
man and that helped me some. But ell
along the way the farmers were ine about
putting me up and selling me good gruh.'
When young Edwin arrived az the New
Britain pOlice station he owned. a. one
of the policemen sAid. rs cents. ths
clothes hs wore and the name Of Could
He wore. for reasons not explained. no
COLLAR or cravat. An day yesterday he
loafed around the New Britain police
station house and seemed 10 show a grow
ing fOndness for his surroundings.
4 like this place bsttsr than the Pom
fret School anyway Edwin said yestsF-
day aftsrnOon 20 Chief Rawlings. I'm
broke. but at hat Fm more satiEiad hsrs
than At school. This 10 heaven CON-
pared 70 school
So ranch for Edwin's story. seorstAry
Campbell. on the otheg hand. insisted
yesterday that young Edwin hadnt run
away az ell. but thRt ths boy had merely
started out On q ialJnt inasmuch aa q three
day vacation was a. hand.
sTn TIA aarl,F uars a lad vaak Mr.