Michael dementi, 6 years old, believed
to be the champion among all the young
sters in this part of the country in the
matter of running away from home, was
claimed from the police at the Bast Six
ty-seventh street station last night for
the forty-fifth time in ten months. His
father, Salvatore dementi of 14'" Presi
dent street, Brooklyn, accompanied by
his mother, two grandmothers, an uncle
and three cousins, officiated at tin- chain
ing ceremony. There was no public ex
hibition of punishment.
Young Michael is known by every,
police department within a day's motor I
truck hitches from President street. |
Brooklyn. Hie yearning to hop on
motor truck tailboards was developed
last July, soon after he was operated
on in a Brooklyn hospital for overgrown
tonsils. He hasn't missed a week since
then and for the last Ave weeks he has
disappeared twice weekly. He ran away
Sunday and again at 9 o'clock yester
day morning, and it is possible, there
fore, that this week he will set a new
record for himself by making it three i
straight.
Sunday afternoon, when the soup was
being served in the Clement! home, Mrs.
Clenienti iookPd around and saw an
empty chair. Michael was gone again,
a search of the house revealed, and din
ner was abandoned, while the police
were being asked please to guard all
terries ami bridges and try to keep him
within the State. That done, the j
Clementls, knowing It was useless to
attempt a search themselves, finished
J'nner and read the Sunday papers.
It was 3 o'clock yesterday morning |
when Michael was heard from. It was
in indirect message stating that he was -
waiting for his father in the Coney
eland police station.
