Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-13
.HEEDS CALL OF boy
Navy Department May Re-
open William B|undy's Case.
IN PRISON AS DESERTER
Wife and Son, Destitute, Seek to
Secure Pardon for Him.
LAD TRIES TO SEE WILSON
Suffering Family Finds Champion in
the Small Son Of Secre-
tary Daniels.
LAD TRIES TO SEE WILSON

L no great United states navy depart
ment today needed the call of little
boy.
When Secretary of the Navy Daniels
learned that willie" Blundy. five years
old. had sought to reach President Wilson
at the White House yesterday with plea
for assistance for his destitute mother. who
is the wife of William. Blppdy.. alias
Milan Massey, serving q tsrR Cor aeetfs
ton and false enlistment, lie 1nisna diatelyt
set inmotion the machinery Of the federal
government to help her. <. u ss-
Jonathan Daniels. the little son OF the
Secretary. heard of how willie" Blundy
tried to get by the guards at the White
House to reach the President while his
mother waited nearby.
Pleads With His Father.
He hurried to his fathers office to
plead for the little fellow. the mother
and the seventeen-month-old child left
at their home in Mount Vernon. N. Y.
Mrs James F. Curtis. wife OF Assistant
Secretary Curtis of the Treasury Depart
ment, also took an active interest in the
case.
Mrs Curtis was an early caller at the
house of detention, where Mrs. Blundy
and her son have been cared for for the
last two nights. She discussed the sad
financial assistance
IT was terribly distressed over the at.
fair" Secretary Daniels told Star re-
porter today. Had ! known she was
about the building yesterday certainly
should have seen her. l. Will do all IN
my power to relieve her"
Secretary Sends for Her.
Having failed to get pardon for her
husband yesterday, Mrs. Blundy was
turned over to the board of charities, and
arrangements were this morning made to
return her to her home in MSunt Vernon,
but before she could be Sent away Sec
rotary Daniels tefephoned to the soffice Of
the board of charities to have her sent
to his Office. -
Secretary Daniels saw the woman and
boy in his Office today and heard her
story Of her troubles and inability to
earn a livelihood.
Given Husbands Pay.
Naval authorities had previously
only q few days ago Secretary Daniels
sent her letter as follows:
Madam: In reply to your letter Of
SUIOdIy ~, Ill Aak SACi iCAOASnSO -
the case of your husband, William w.
Blundy. alias MILAN Mccoy, apprentice
seaman, you are Informed that the de-
partment declines to extend further
clemency in this case than that mem
toned in the letter Of February 6. 1913,
partment has RENTED the forfeiture OF
pay imposed on the detained, II he sends
to you all the pay monthly after certain
deductions As stated in the depart
l1xt ~ nI>s 1912
should communicate with the comman-
dant Of the navy yard, Portsmouth, N.
H, for Information desired as to the
pay you may receive from your hus-
band"
Hears Story Of Suffering.
Mrs. Blundy and her boy first came
afternoon when they were in the vicinity
Of the White House. q caller there telling
Sergt J. A. williams about them.
1.-The woman tells a pathetic story" the
sergeant was told, land she seems to be
in distress"
The sergeant sought the woman and
boy and heard from her part OF the
story of her husbands conduct and what
the naval authorities had done with him.
He assured her she could not see the
President and advised her to return home
and have friends in New York make an
effort to accomplish her husbands re-
| lease.
i al reception to the women Of the diplo-
matte corps was being held at that time
and the police sergeant had civilian
accompany Mrs. Blundy and the boy to
the house of detention. Yesterday rep
resentative of the board of charities took
charge of the woman and investigated
her case.
1t was soon learned that Mrs. Blundy
| and her son had spent part OF Tuesday
about the Navy Department and had
made things so uncomfortable that
watchmen were instructed not to admit
her yesterday. Being accompanied by a
/ representative OF the Districts charity
organization. however, Mrs. Blundy and
her son were admitted to the building.
Determined to Remain.
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