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JOY ADMITS bSURVEYOR’S 1/BAG THEFTi lt; *Youth Throws i Away Satchell Containing jj« Valuable Data, Police Say |;aught pilferingANOTHER MACHINE-strJtole From Car of Charles Atwell of Monttcello— fps Tells Pitiful Tale j ®*exrrest of a yotzih alleged to«*} tilstolen, articles frcru twoomo'bites In skis c.ty Tuesday |v! ugt. today brought to light tory of K Isd vrho neter banco, who has spent a*ore Ih.tn i ^ ;»e of His 15 years of life sa J It .ftcarcQTih. Visage and otho* S»- #«: i; tut loss and who Ss a asestaseJiaquest without a file id, e’ Q3* s.3 ivea *pursed by c:s parents. j a*Gearies Atwell. Mocticello sar-jttreyor. Informed police Tuesday*™ light that a brows Boston ieatG-j^1 »r has had bees ttoies froal bis = p, xatomobile wh;!e he had left *ttai parked between 7 asd 9 o’elr* 4|re ja UciQU street near West Mala} jtree; while he attended to soma { , iegai business. \ tiThe bsg contained an eeure i pSI v: otaEarner's work—data in severa- notebooks from which Mr. Atwetlja: was to prepare a map. It also 1 b included two plumb bobs, a lOu-jp foot measuring tape, a deed fo. S property, two maps, books, a com-1 ii pass and other valuable eqasp-jc; meat. Near the car, Atwell said. = s be'foend some wine glasses aadjs; ‘ browa lt;• ‘on glove. iShortly afterwards aaotcer; htelephone call came m from C. J-t^ Pickard, who said that an oldc « Cjishioaea revolver with a holei*ithrough the grip and * flashlight S was missing from his ear. parked*anear the Armory. ]The boy was arrested si 9 j “o’clock this morning by Mr. Pic- {^ hard. Captain Clayton Jones and i _Captain Jacob S. BaUman. who E *; caught the lad, Stanley Berry, IS. j, a* he t to eater another;CSX - neat? tks ^rmory.—, OfllcerjUanrell' Betts brought the' bay to I, Police Headquarters, where he is f * being kept n a cell temporarily. | _ It is expeeied that he will be tried* in-.' *- -Ts Cou-r- -rIn the boy’s possession werej ,found a fiashrght. most of 'tfcejsurveyor’s equipment, but the val-iIn [Iuable surveyor’s map notes.which Atwell had worked all summer. are still missing. The boy say« be left them In the leather bag which'he threw away near the Armory. Chief John D. Mi Coach today urged the Seder of!i the papers to bring mem to bead-{ quarters- v |The boy was weeping as he sat : on* the cot In his cell tlx is morning when approached by a Herald reporter. He sobbed at Intervals las he told his pathetic story-He had beers living with sis father Obe Berry, and a sister— whose name he does cot kaow j now :bal she recently married, at i the home of Mrs. Mary .Lewis be-1.yonrl the city limits on Waway-anda avenue. He was fairly well treated there, he said, but Tues-iday night they toid him to put on {■ !bis clothes and to return If* his mother In Newark. Mrs Cora Berry. fThe hoy said be feared to dof; this, as he knew he would bej f again placed in an institution _i£S .be went back to Newark. HiSj: ! father bad told him to go before, j be said, but be bad slept on thei perch of a bouse nearby instead.| Tuesday night, the boy said, be wandered about the streets here.1’’ V bf L» W V W ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ --Because ne wanted something to{ Iplay wjib. be took the leather bag \ 5from Atwell’s car. be said, not sii-j jt^ndjng to sell the coateuts—5ust4 ]io bave something to play with, j | He also took the gun and flash- lt;jissfot frcm the r chare ca-. he’ j=s»’d. I5 He fold pol.ee 5?e bad spent the] |a’ga* lt;ia »5:e ground In a doorva^d ] inear the Armory. it 'Fifte'=u years old be ha« been! in Betelrvorth Village, five year. Jaod in other insvtutlons at New-'ark and other crises, he s^«d. He | I remarked that be did cot like to; live ’3 the lEStst.st’oss. and thatsthe only time be ever went -oschool va« :c or,c of tbem. where j,!lt;• ^eatlced :5e s xth grad^] His mother hv* at 97 Ninth; *,T5«.''e. Newark, he said, and Sis; ! father, who boards where he has i ‘been «*sy'3g. is a wood'’hopper.! ’I 'isren't ret a r-i* - the boy I’’-ebbed, adm tlirr *'■’£; he had! ibeen arrested on^e Is Newark for-
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Middletown Daily Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Nov 12, 1924
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