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Harry Ellis Pleads Guilty toTheft of Fine Bag oflof Poultry.rt\xfctttspIt went hard with Harry Ellis, a negro, whose racial predilections for the toothsome fibre of poultry meat caused his arrest, when in the city court, Tues* day morning, he pleaded guilty to «* charge of petit larceny for stealing oneblue-blooded cockerel and eight hens from the coops of Bruno Krantz, 1817 Gay street. Judge Waveland Kerr finjjd him $10 and costs and added 150 days ai the state penal farm. The total penaitj will keep Ellis at the farm for six months. The negro pleaded in extenuation that his income was small *nd his family obligations heavy and that he had a hard time to make his income meet expenses. The Krantz poultry seemed to offer help and he fell to the temptation. Ellis was arrested by Detective Sergeants W. F. Pappert and Charles Spillner, who found the stolen poultry concealed in a bed room of the] t Ellis home, 1801 Smith street, Monday.] s Harry Moore, a negro roomer at the|j\ Ellis home, in whose chamber the fowls j I were found, was also taken into cus-1 s tody, but Ellis wholly exonerated him I? and he w as turned loose. The stolen I h cockerel is valued at $10. I vTrouble Hunter Jailed. | njRiehard Harrison was fined $10 and costs and given ten days additional In fail on a charge of disorderly conduct. The testimony allowed that Harrison j y was jealous of the attentions paid to a I u lady employed in the Joe Liebenguth I restaurant, on West Main street, by B. I ii H. Tron, a young man employed in the! a same place, and had been making a nuis-1 1lt; ance of himself about the cafe. Monday I b he started trouble with Tron, struck at h him, was thrown into the street and! clt; there, under the gaze of a numerous! h presence, given a thorough thrashing by I b his younger and lighter rival. Motor* I $ cycle Officer Young, who saw thc com-1 ti bat. took both belligerents to headquarters, where Harrison was placed under arrest on an affidavit by Mr. Lieben-guth. * nlt;Had Old Man With Money in Tow. I John Morrell, a negro, and Harry Me-1 w Gurney, a white man. who had just | hi drifted in from Kokomo, together with Joe Dolan, an aged man, were arrested j di Monday by Detective Sergeant M. A.IniRundell, who had trailed the trio for I di snmp time from saloon to saloon. Dolan I thf
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 11, 1916
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