The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

II the down 70 thNlr last cent par
cnts OF tho children picked up hy Police
man Racr of the West Thirt.oth stree;
| station ou Friday night g. tru.t ~ de-
partmeur store at Sixth avenue and West
| Thirty-seou0d street viii 60 to the chill
dren's society and substautiutc what they
wrote In the note that assigned the chill
dren temporarily TO the care OF the chart
| table they will not have TO 20 elsewhere
| for the employment they seek. and Rich
ard, 4 years old. ana Jimmie =, will get
relief from tho fostering crowd II re-
porters. Photographers and Investigators
who interrupt their play.
Richard and Jimmie. whose last name
they say is IIefter, never had such busy
day in their young lives as yesterday.
| From tho time Policeman Bacr wheeled
Jimmies go-clrt--thc side clutchcd pro-
| tcctingly by his rrother-into Justice
| Franklin g. Hoyts Childrcn's Court in
! the morning until they began their Sec
oni sound sleep in the Childrrn's society
rooms at Fourth avenue and Twcnty-third
street life was ono continual round Of
| trying to answer questions and being in
| spected and "mugged.'
Along I'm the afternoon ~ began to be
! a hore--all this kindly third degree stun
! and besides. II tho self-appoiuted in
vCstiEgtors did not stop Fostering Rich
ard, the temporary head OF tho abandoned
4 family brother Jimmie would have all
the buttons paved Off his black chirchlla
coat. jimmie. 1t may he said To his
credit. nodded wisely to everything Rich
ard said and LEFT uusaid. but volunteered
. 10 statement on his own behalf. And
srrgI 1aft col
umes.
~ work on Faint Clues.
They had been booked at the station
house. whittier Policeman Baer enticed the
pair and the go-cart by promising Rich
I ard his club---ro, as a gift--as Richard
, Hefter. %, aud Jimmie Hcfter. ., but that
was counting on a birthday yet to come.
Then they had slept in the Children +
soCicty's rooms all night. sound rs a top
had been arrdigncd before Justice Hoyt
as having improper guardianship" and
remau1rd 20 Ernest X. Coutcrs care
again "iu open date which means that
n the parents show mp they can be
brought up again at any time. Mean
while the socistys agents are working
on the fai0test Of clues.
/ Richard didn'; know whore they lived
except that 1t was downtown-Broadway
some place. He was most oblignE with
his answers. To any question that re-
quired Yes" or NO for an answer he
invariably said "Nes' GU, Of a vivid I'M
agination He also lived four flights M
in this downtown Broadway place with
mamma and papa. md thought II might be
around Bleecker street somewhere, but
that was all
Yes they had parlor which later
questioning developed was a kitchen. din
ing ro-m and other rooms combined. II
had two windows, but the bedroom had
none II was essential 10 Richard &c
interpolate here that he had a mechanical
duck and an automobile In that window
less room, hut his excitement over those
particulars pgcc!pitated himself off IN,
chair rather Unexpectedly wnen he at
tempted to show how the duck and the
aut1 made circular tr'ps about the floor
What Richards father did might b,
anything from driving a truck to signing
checks in "A b1nk, because Richard adj
nired all the varieties of male occupation
described t. Inn and said Yes" hi!
father did any one Of thoso. Papa used
to set up At A. NJ. aud Richard with
him, he said at one stage Of the question
ing. but Il might have been p. NJ, 1t was
later inferred.