Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-10
FRANCIS WIEN
IS RETURNED BY
STAR NEWSb0Y
With Companion Was Barricad-
ed in Mount Pleasant Ave.
House-Going to Texas.

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An Evening STAR newsboy returned
TO his mother 11-year-old Francis
Wien, of 81 Springfield avenue, who,
with another lad had started out for
Texas last Thursday night to shoot up
cowboys and make a fortune. The un-
known newsboy, who recognized young
Wien, not only sells his papers, but he
reads them, for he saw the picture of
the missing child in Saturdays Eve
ming STAR. He then made a detective
newly-built and untenanted house far
out On Mt. Prospect avenue, in which
he had seen signs of occupancy on his
way home the night before.
Young Frankie Wien and his com
panion, Nat Coleman. of Golden street.
were just getting ready to make their
descent on Texas. They had beer in
the second-story back of the new house
for two days, armed with a very rusty
jack-knife and a case knife whetted
down, to scare real cowboys into think
ing it a dirk. They were eating a
supper over a resuscitated gas stove
from a nearby dump, having kindled
a fire with paper n chips and they
sat hunched over the scantiest fare that
ever two young desperadoes lac to fare
on. They had just nibbled the last of
a cracker and a shingleful of baked
beans apiece when the STAR newsboy
knocked at the door. +
Youthful Detective Demanded Entrance
"Lemme in" he said quite unroman-
tically. I'm come to fetch that Wien
kid back to his folks. The young run
aways held a hurried conference be-
hind the barricade of scantlings that
held the door in place.
None of his name is here" returned
Nat Coleman. in his best Texan twane
through the rack. And he was about
to demand by what right the bold
usurper invaded the den of the
"DauntlesS, Two" when the newsboy
put his shoulder to the door and sent
1t whirling inward with the two dash
ing desperadoes sprawling on the floof
nearby. 8
The newsboy TOOK young frankie
Wien by the collar and led him to the
head of the stairs. frankie declared
at first hat he would fight for his
right to run away to Texas. and Nat
Coleman tried to lick the newsboy, SO
as to rescue frankie. Nat Coleman
found himself fiat on his back with a
very badly appearing nose at the end
of less thai a round. When he tried
to use his jack the newsboy threw it
out of q window with his free hand.
~ l.~l.A~~s-- 1ta 800 CSC. m Tr~n :, lii
wien's c~oat-collar, he dragged him
down the stairs and started home.
frankie tried to offer the lad a nickel
to let him go, but the newsboy was
steadfast. You're ma wants you," he
replied to all attempts at bribery. Tn
the kid ut,s takin' yuh to 'er. Come
along. See?" s
Took frankie Home.
SO he brought frankie to his
home half an hour after the rescue,
and Mrs. Wien, who was pretty
nearly on the point of giving up all
hope of ever. seeing her boy again, took
him into her arms and kissed him in
stead of whipping him.. In the excite
ment the newsboy who made it posi-
BILE for their darling to be kissed seid
he'd have to hurry along, and got away
without so much as giving his name.
Mrs. Wien couldn't say too much
about the value of the STAR and its
newsboys as rescuers of wayward
young sons. But she avs she thinks
her own lad got his inspiration for
Texas from seeing too many moving
picture shows. frankie a y he'll never
run away again, and his mother says
she thinks he's telling the truth.