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FATilKR AM) SON’SARUHSTFI) I OK (OAL THKFTS hlt; __ ofI'oroier ScatonvHle Resident* Hold 111For Robbing Cars atSeatonville.______ toJoe Wallis and his two small m sons, Joseph, Jr., and Brownie were arrested Wednesday morning at p Standard by Joe Oherillo, special ai agent for the St. Paul railroad on ni a charge of stealing coal from €.j freight cars at Seatonville. They were brought to Princeton and given | a hearing before Police Magistrate.;^ W. \V. Herron. The judge bound e]Wallis to the grand jury but con tin- t; tied the hearing of the boys, onp of a whom is sixteen years old and the (Jother fourteen.Wallis is a miner. When the Sea- j ^j tonville mine closed two years ago n he was thrown out of work and when fi wiuter came on he began systematic-ally to raid the coal trains as they u passed through the village, com- Q polling the two boys to assist him.In that manner he secured fuel | enough to supply his own family and nl o to sell to saloon keepers and a others in the village. |I Recently railroad detectives were ‘ put on the job, and when Wallis *I learned that they were looking for 11 i him, he fled to Standard with his h family and secured work there in »1 the mine. The detectives traced him a and brought him back to this county v for trial. The case will come be-18 fore the January grand jury.
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 31, 1915
Page 15
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