Eleven year old Sam Yockaway (Also reported as Yaquinta or Yackaway) was indeed arrested as a ring leader.  Yaquinta is an Italian surname, and Yockaway appears to be either a nickname or an anglicisation. Searching the surname Yockaway, the only results appear to be Sam and his immediate family  and one man found sleeping under a bridge who identified himself as John Yockaway whose arrest for vagrancy was covered in an 1892 edition of the Pittsburgh Dispatch.  

Sam’s son Guy Yackaway, whose birth is recorded as Guy Yockaway, was interviewed about Sam by Fred Barkley in 2001 at St. Abans WV as part of his research on the ‘Boomer Tallys’.

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