The Brooklyn Daily Eagle New York. Tuesday November 9, 1909, page 11
James Sullivan, a tall, fifteen year-old boy, plead not guilty to being a juvenile delinquent before Judge O'Keefe in the Children's Court yesterday. The real charge against the boy is that he has too much of a hankering after personal liberty for the son of a missionary of Pastor Russell, Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society. Last year James was at ?? Adventist school the Fox River Academy at Sheridan Ill. but he left a little before the official commencement. To forestall any renewed enrollment at the school this year, he came to Brooklyn about a month ago to see his sisters.
That, he now feels, was a foolish move, for his sisters are both employed by the Watchtower Tract Society here in Brooklyn, and with the husband of one are members of the Pastor's brotherhood family at 124 Columbia Heights.
The father is a travelling preacher for the society out on the Pacific coast. The boy's mother is dead and the sisters are only half sisters but for all that the boy was well received and set to work. That, and the frequent prayer meetings he was forced to attend both at the house at 124 Columbia Heights, were too much for the boy, so he fled to Philadelphia but came back to Brooklyn Sunday afternoon and was arrested. The sisters want to send him to a reform school where he cannot run away any more. He hopes to appeal to his father before he gets sent away.