ADVENTURES OF A MILLIONAIRE'S SON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9736, 25 July 1910, Page 7

ADVENTURES OF A MILLIONAIRE'S SON.

After a three day's agonised search, Mr and Mrs Edwin Gould discovered, in a ragged, dirty, oollarless lad on a bench in the police station at New Connecticut, their sixteeu-yeW-old son, who rau away from school.

The boy, who will one day inherit a larga share of the £15,000,000 left by the late Mr Jay Gould, arrived at the police station at three o'clock ia the morning, and asked for assistance, after having tramped over seventy miles and slept for three nights in onthonses, farm stables and common lodging-houses. He was starving, and when, footsore and bedraggled, he orept to the police station and announced, "I am Edwin Gould, grandson of Jay Gould," the sergeant in charge suppressed an inclination to laugh, aud ordered food to be given to the wanderer. This the prospective millionaire simply devoured, and then, with his spirits revived, lie told the sceptical policernau that he was well acquainted with the "gay white way,'.' as Broadsvay is kuowu. "Father sent mo," he proceeded, "to a boarding school where there were 125 other boys. The teachers were strict, aud I decided to leave. "While a baseball game was proceeding I left the school grounds and started to walk to New York. I liad 76c. in my pocket. The first night I slept near the railway station at Willimantic. All Saturday I tramped along uutil I reached Hartford, where I found a 14c. lodgiug-liouse. It was horrible!

"On the Sunday I lost my way, and must have wandered in circles until night, wheu I lay down to sleep at a farmhouse. Just as I was comfortable the farmer discovered me. He called me a tramp aud ordered me to go. " After eighteeu hours at the police station young Mr Edwin Gould was placed in the custody of his father, who, despite his heir's teartul eutreaties, steruly conveyed him back to school.