Gould Heir on Tramp.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 July 1910, Page 4

Gould Heir on Tramp.

MILLIONAIRE'S SON FOUND STARVING. After a three days' agonised search Mr and Mrs Edwin Gould discovered in a ragged, dirty, collarless lad on a bench in the police station, at New Britain, Connecticut, their sixteen-year-old son, wuo rail away from .school. The boy, who will one day i-niher.it a large share of the £15,000,000 left by the late Mr Jay Gould, arrived at the police station .at .three o'clock in the morning, and asked for assistance, after having tramped over seventy miles .and slept for three nights in outhouses, farm stables, and common 'lodging-houses. Ho was starving, and when, footsore and •bedraggled, lie crept to the police static n-and announced "I am Edwin Gould, grandson of Jay Gould," the sergeant in charge suppressed an inclination to laugh, and ordered food to be given to the wanderer.

This the prospective millionaire simply devoured, and ithen, with his spirits revived, lie told the sceptical policeman that ho was well acquainted with "the gay white way," as Broadway is known. "Father sent me." lue proceeded, "to a hoarding school where there were 125 other boys. The toachers were terribly strict, and T decided to leave.

"While a baseball game was proceed in.g on Friday T left the school <rron.nds and started to walk to New oik. T had 3s 2d in inv poekct. The first night T slent near the railway station at Williniantic. All Saturday T tramned along until T reached Hartford, where T found a seven pen ny lodging house. Tt was 'horrible!

"On Sunday T lost my wav, and must have wandered in circles until niiiM, wlkmi T Inv down to slo-co at n farmhouse. Just as T whs comfortably f,| )o f,inner discovered mp jj (> 'a!M me a tramp and ordered, me to o-o.

After it Hie nrvliT <' f at : on vonnnr Mr E'lwin "'.'iced in +)i» 0 f ]~;s -vbo. heir's tr-ovf,,] "Jp'-nlv rom-evH him back