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EBOY ADMITS 11,1 SURVEYOR’S ■BAG THEFT ic15i Newark Youth Throws ; 1 Away Satchel! ContamSng ‘ Valuable Data, Police Say |rCAUGHT PILFERING \lt another machine;*5 • •i*, 5 Ua.P Stole Froiit Car of Charles j^c Atwell of Monftcello— fps■S 4ir, Tells Pitiful Tale \ £I 1I* -% V 3-9h.omo'bites In this c.ty Tuesday j vU sugar, today brought to light -or\ of a lad who nener bad a-3^ 'banco, who has spent more lii.m i Jie of bis 15 years of life m j it Leichworth Visage and otho* Ss-lb titutSons aad who Is a tneoia! 'ielinques: without a file id, even^parsed by c-s parents. I~ofj Charles At we:!. MocticeEo sar-1 tuer-jj Teyor. informed police Tuesday* si::mU:sfc: that a brown Boston lease-1Jn^er feas i%€2 fctoiea from his j pr'automobile wa:!e he hsd left *vsacArrest of a youth alleged to j ^ stolen articles; frost two| tic , onfparked heiueeu 7 asd 9 o’elc i|ia on Union street near West Main j street while he a tree dec! to soma j .legal business. J tb*v*?ereVTfce bag coc.tal.ried an ecure-i f pc : o'«aixuner*s wort—data in severx. _ notebooks from which Mr. Atweil jv was to prepare a map. It aUojbiincluded two plumb bobs, a 100-1 p! foot measuring tape, a deed Jo. Sc -{property, two maps, books, a com-tinsetVetsgepass and other valuable equip- ez inent. Near the ear, Atwell said- = Slt; ne'foccd some wine glasses endjsj .* browa o **on glove. iShortly afterwards anotcerjW *^a telephone call came Jn irozu C- d-f^ 5E*i Pickard. who said that an old, 01;hi-jPilt; , . — . ., j fashioned revolver with a soxeijWl“a * through the grip and a flashlight!iC.througn the gnp e5~f was missing from his car, parked ia f near the Armory. jar' ‘ The hoy was arrested at 9 j ult;o'clock this morning by Mr. Pie-jclt;liard, Captain Clayton Jonee and i f)lLk?iCaptain Jacob S. Bauman, who \ ^A* ■*!__... _t_ k C* T5orrv 1 ti 5_£l caught the lad, Stanley Berry, la, j17*1*8 he v-=f -Sbgt to enter another! k^csr -•»«»*: the Armory.--= Officer \ Js}'~ I kept in a ceil tesnporarV.y. j lJ‘CT jit is expecjed that he will be tried *Uafireir Betti brought the' bay to f ^ Police Headquarters, where he *ooi I:for}:B- -VsCou-t, ?*JVil-looIailyI:i tfte boy's poseesskiu ^.erejfound a flMhVghi. most or the]surveyor's efiuipment, but tfce val-tIn!i: to t;ls.unguable surveyor's map notes.which Atwell had ^-oriied ail feum-arc mer. are still missing. The boy says be le£t them In the leather bag which-he threw away near the Armory. Chief John D. II? Coach today urged the 5nder of! 1 I the papers to bricg tnein to bead-{ quarters- v |The boy was weeping as he sat on* the cot in his ceil tins morning when approached by a Herald reporter. He sobbed at intervals as he told his pathetic story, om- He had been living with sis father Obe Berry, and a sister— whose name lie does not know:er jibleaii-rict(iscs, janda avenue. He was fairly well Ago | treated there, be said, but Tues-f ;n—ilt;3ay eight they toid him to pat on ifllais clothes and to return his j ^mother In Newark. Mrs CorajjBerry, f jThe boy said be feared to do j this, as be knew be would bej ;iOIl|2ga{R placed in an Insulation JfP ; be went back to Newark. HiSj^ djlet. s father had told him to go before, boys!be s2ld. but he bad slept oa the tain-j porch of a bouse nearby Instead. one! Tuesday night, the boy said, be J 5a: wandered about the street^ here, light 1 Because he wanted something to j anenpiay wjib. he took the leather bag ^ittonlcrom Atwell's car. he said, not in-j3 la-! ending lo sell the contents—jest, ]iblet] Jo fe2ve souaetblog to play with. ;Iiem*|He also took the gun and fiaeh-Si !t:on*asabt frcm the P chard ca*\ be’j sem-j^’d. jjfrstj He iold pol.ee he had spent Ihe]-jn’ga* on »5:e ground in a doer'a^d ] inear the Arauory. j.5 'Fifteen year? old be ha« bem1 ^ in Beiehwonh Village. Sve year, ‘ic!d.uto-aod in other insvtmloss at New-': «j;i= srk and other c.tJes. be said. He {3this * remarked that be did cot like lei; arch live -n the. Institut'oss. and ibat’l rices-the or.ly time he ever went •©’-'-■•m ‘school wa«s :c or,G of where j'cached the s xth grade ?_] HI? motbsr l-ivet, at ST Ninthsjaic-n.’*3. Newark, he ssld, and Sis] F-r-! father, who boards where he has i ',1 3lt;-heen fsy'ag. is a wood'’hopper.! rbcaj'T '.svcnT srvi a boy Iv'cw-J-nbbid. adnr tSirr ‘‘-tt he had!’; ;jpd:blt;en arrested or-'e ir Newark for-
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Middletown Daily Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Nov 12, 1924
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