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{•CANDIDATE FOR Tllli PEN.FIt IR ?Jolm Holland, Just Returned31From tlio Reform School, le-teotod in the Ad olRobbery.Onelittlebeaut\ •-the elt;it»M5050JOHN HOI LAND'S CASK.As raanv of the readers of the Con.ikRas1will recollect, a half dozen or more boys ranging in years from loto IS were aboutcaught in the act ofmill on t hosea vearrobbingsincetheSchoonoverSouth Main street. AH otwho participated in the affair were afterewards given a legal trial and one Hull,*who was a few mouths past IS, was sent to the penitentiary for a short term while the remainder of thegangwere sent to the state reform school att.isPontiac. Among the foremost of the gang was one Johnnv Holland. He wasit i sentencedtoserveonestatereformatory,v ea rtoandrin t tiehaving served out his time returned to Jacksonville some sis vveekssince. Butit seems the dicipline of the institutionaisVhad no effect w hatever in his case—in other words, reform did not reform. Notie bo deli canthen tl1 v. Titortinsooner had young Holland landed in this,it his home, than he distinguished himselfby getting on a big drunk, or at least so8I-L-eyIOit is stated, and it is further stated thathe has been on a booze a greater portion ; of the time since his return. In view ofhis bad conduct the police have deemedit best to keep ail eye on the young rascal and they were not at all surprisedlze,os lwill beof two-color o gother, chest, tish the and tal in shap the hai contenl Youngwhen late Monday afternoon they ob-(tained an inkling of the fact that Hoiland had designs on the till of Geo. E.8otradSybrant’s lunch room.Therefore in view of the informationabove mentioned Policemen Kd. Whiteand Geo. .Smith were detailed to watchaothe rear entrance of the place after theTh os physic 2their n ber tluiclosing hour, which is between twelveand one o’clock. It was betweeu oneLeand two o’clock when the two policemen were rewarded for their vigilanceybv seeing Holland and a w ell-know n tenyear old bootblack approach the back8ain exce is a for doubth it open due ini of raovattractEveryo with itdoor of the place. A small pane of glass j COnstiChad been broken out of one corner ofthe door and through this opening Hol-be dis dence.land was enabled to lift a heavy woodenbar from its moorings and open tlie door. He entered the room, leavingsmall boy before mentioned to guardis comi the stn his 1 i ii breakethe entrance and givej journo;the alarm in I this. ro1case any one approached.The policemen waited until Hollandrival hi his twihad been given ample time to accomplish his intentions and then swoopedadown upon him, taking him prisoner as he was preparing to leave the place. Inocompany with the boy he was taken to the station house, where u search of histclothes revealed the fact that lie had ol»tained from the n: »nev drawer the sumof $1.2»* and four two-eent postage stamps.againstcyclists their solikewisduranclt;for son;than tofar a; short, mere trAt 10 o’clock this morning Holland wasf , taken before Justice Henderson, w.iere , he waived examinati m, and 111 defaultof * ot X i bond went to the county jail toaawait the action of the grand jury. Hol-land is now over 18 years of age, and hismisdemeanor therefore makes him aBcandidate for tiie penitentiary.ereise,weight time wl an anxi it is In reap its self wit less lie 'had bet— Lo ndMATT! K I.AMlt RAIDED.1Evidently the police were on theirMICmuscle last night, for besides eapturinMaxim*the burglar John Holland, thev raidedtI1one of the flats, on South Mauvaisterrestreet, presided over by one Lamb. The members of the force w h In ou this val Mattie I over loodid the job were Policemen Smith,iWhite and Lewis, and those who weregiene, a so tlian tains ai1arrested were the keeper of the place j ^hiUmand Rose Kadeliffe, Ella Sarie, Dick Plummer and Tom Meredith.many months since the Lamb woman,who is a daughter of Mrs. 0. G. Tuller,swas charged with keeping an assigns tion house. Sheture’s t Not | deodorihomes, able wl mit of eIfwas brought before Justice McCullough, where she posed as a virtuous woman. The case was post poned several times, and Anally as a number of her witnesses swore to herchastitv and it♦almost impossible to any criminating ^evidence, the case w asfinally dismissed. The police have forposes wroom tocarpet lt;which taccumuallowwasfoundbring forwardpreserviodieal ot1fsome time suspected her of keeping abawdy house, but of this thev could obtain no proof until last night, when theycompletely surprised Lamb ami tier associates. The trial of these persons wasset for this afternoon before Justice McCullough. It appears thev petitionedsweep) ii tion of whereFixed c;able am there th of the icompostThe ideitICity Attorney Rowe for a continuance, but this request he positively refused togrant.Iwhoassociates itTHREW A BRICK.Bud Jackson, a little colored scamp, Iwith a number of makes himself a general nuisance on the streets, was placed in the station house yesterdav ou complaint of a woman w ho saiil that lie had thrown a brick at her.floor gv number comforture to tl light, ought tlt; up in thsweet, i i wo oroi timer.hope to native ier honsi hearts i H«cpita\ Hr* iK U INOERSOtl ARRESTED,Late last night Robert lugersoll was discovered by Policeman Spears andNight Patrolman Sweeney to lie wander- serve siEvery iA bintng about the streets in an inebriatedcondition.Bub was forthwith escortedto the plain drunk dissolver, and sub- i ieeted to thetreatment prescribed at( apt \Lliter’s Institute. Now don't imagine gentle reader, that the great inti-dt*l|Ovtof ami lawyer, RobertIB the subject of this sketch.NJ/i.NOnotir to yoi: of the bither hiin the \nfixed l)|move vlt; and bath wibe, but plain, everv-day, Robert Ingei-ndII, ot Jacksonville, who manifests hist rouge i ordiuaripatriotism by his endeavor to assist inpaying the national debt.'i’lie choicest line of Neckwearshow 11 ill .1 Ht k Mi Hi V 11 L» tt • Ini lut,A g« x of motlplace uwall* r
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Jacksonville Daily Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Tue, Dec 15, 1891
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