The sun., 1910-01-09
NABBED FOR his ATTIC LEGS
DT\ClN ROY, AUNT AND A
GREEN OFFEND BROADWAY.
scotch Policeman Agrees That IT'S Cruel
10 Let a child Go Bare in January.
ENrn u Tie and HIs Folks Like IL
His Father Cries for Vengeance.

E,rn n Hc and HIs Folks like IL
His Father cries COr Vengeance.
Miss Eleni Sikelnaus. wearing q fur
coat and hat. and Andrew Devoias. in
, heavy overcoat. took four-year-o
Nsnalkas Duncan out walking yesterday.
Menalkas,is the son OF Raymond Duncan.
Hellenic enthusiast. and he was clad in
The garments which are advertising his
fathers lectures on Greek music.
His bare feet were in sandals. his legs
were bare to little way above the knees.
his arms were bare pretty we'll toward
the shoulder and he was bareheaded.
Those who saw him admitted that it did
look like a chilly costume for a winter
day in New York.
ON the way over to Broadway from
the Hotel st. Margaret, 12s West Forty
seventh street. where Miss Sikelnaus,
who is a sister Of the child's mother. is
hvrz. the party kept picking up follow
.r. When they turned into Broadway
the :atinue was numerous. The main
interest, of course, lay in the hare legged.
hare armed. bare headed child.
one man in particular seemed bound
TO make trouble for them. He kept
calling peoples attention to the child.
and when the crowd got up Broadway
a. far as Fifty-fourth street he remarked
to Policeman Robert MacNish OF the
Nest Forty-seventh street station, Look
lN,IN Il. 70, xinar
Miss Sikelnaus intimated later that the
speaker was an agent of the Children's
society. Somebody else in the crowd
vent so far as to say that he thought
maybe the interested person was a press
agent.
The swollen crowd was getting excited
over the matter 80 Policeman MacNish.
who never was in Greece in his life and
pretends to no knowledge OF the customs
and costumes of the ancient Attic plain,
arrested the man. woman and child and
took them to the station house.
Miss Sikelnaus and Mr.. Devoias. who
is Greek friend of the Duncans, were
charged with endangering the health of a
minor The child was accused of having
improper guardianship and was sent to the
Gerry society. The blotter read: -Menelkas
Duncan, who was suffering from the cold,
having no stockings and wore only san
dals. having no hat, and arms bare
As there is no. matron in West Forty
seventh street Miss Sikelnaus was taken
up TO the West Sixty-eighth street station.
Raymond Duncan was notified and he and
Mrs. Duncan hurried to the Gerry society.
Charles Denville Coburn. Mf. Duucan's
American representative, bailed Devoais
and then Miss Sikelnaus. The latter
complained OF the cell which she had
occupied at the West Sixty-eighth street
station and insisted that it was dirty
and generally unpleasant.
When Coburn got to the Gerry society
rooms Raymond Duncan was very much
excited over this latest outrage perpe-
trated by New York authorities. Mrs.
Duncan was trying to calm him. The boy
was paroled in the custody OF his parents
until Monday morning, when he will be
arraigned in the Children's Court. Miss
Sikenaus and Devoias will be arraigned
this morning in the West Side court.
The senior Duncan astonished the Off
cers Of the Gerry society. In their report
they said that his farms and legs were
hare and he wore a shoddy Greek cos
tune. worn, and OF poor material They
also report ed that he acted irrationally"
rn.his excitement about his boy
T. was o'clock last night before every
body got together again at the Hotel st.
Margaret The boy was the only one
unaffected by the experience. He IL
well educated youngster and laid aside
the Greek, which is his familiar tongue.
TO explain in English that he hadn't
been cold at all--that he never was cold,
N fact His father amplified this by say
ing that il was because the boy was clean
and his clothes were clean and therefore
cold could not touch him.
Then they peeled the boys garments
oH for the inspection Of the interested.
On the outside he had worn a white wool
Jacket much like a sweater. with short
sleeves and coming down to within
two inches or so OF his knees. Under that
Va- q brown woollen jersey. not so long
but Of considerable weight. and under
this in turn he had three heavy linen
uudorshirts One OF the three was brown
and the two others were purple.
Mr. duncan and his wife wore similar
garments on their pilgrimage to the
rrdren's society. Mr.. Duncan declared
hnu,elf last night as indignant about
tho interference Of the police with the
dressing Of his child He wanted to know
there was not some big society In New
! ork to paint the town red with this story
oi hardship to his son and his wife and
himself
he declared that the child's health had
l"en endangered by taking IL from its
PARENTS and Exposing it TO the contain
rating influence Of criminal children
Miss Sikelnaus, Mr.. Duncan said, was
formerly leading woman OF the Royal
Theatre in Athens and was also member
ri the late Constant Coquelin's company.