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+ ♦ »TWOBOYS !' A3HARD LUCK TALEAs Reason for Stealing —O’Connell and*Perry Round to , Grand Jury.ue;ac:UAItwyfitfhlamUsistTlt;XCPicas that 'they were out of work and broke were made by • Thomas O’Connell, aged 19, of 2602 Forrest avenue and Lona Perry age 21, of Parkamo avenue, before'they'were bound to the grand jury on separate warrants charging grand larceny. The youths were arraigned before Judge E. J. Kants iu Municipal court this morning. f tPerry was held to the grand jury-under ^500 bond. He was charged witli stealing three bench vises from the Hamilton Foundry and Machine Tool company., The benches were found by detectives at Perry’s home. .O'Connell pleaded guilty to steal1,ing blankets, valued at, $50, from: the Shuler nud Eenninghofen mill?, Lindenwald. His bond was fixedat $200.'Flat Broke and JoblessAnswering the questions of Judge Kautz and Chief of Police Charles Strieker, O'Connell told a story of .how he was flat broke and out of a job.“I couldn’t get any work,” O'Connell said, “and I stole the blanket.'‘There was no one w£h me,0'Connoil said lhaf he had been out of a job since h\j was discharged from the army two months ago. lie Bad worked for a short time on construction work at the Shuler and Benniogbofen mills, Benninghofen avenue,, and according to police and mill officials it was that time that he conceived the idea of talcing blankets.After the Judge heard O'Connell's story and learned that it was big first criminal offense he fixed the small bound, wBobbed Thiof, Not Factory, Ferry :+4 Saidf'L did not steal .the visas from the factory and did not know they sj. belonged to them, Perry said, af- ^ ter he had pleaded guilty to the grand larceny warrant.r'I saw fellows hide the vises along the canal bank and then weiri and took them. I did not know they belonged to the foundry.“I have had a Aard' time. I’ve been out of work. Yes, I was working when I took the vises hut a man has a hard time paying a lot of bills ‘when he is making 25 cente an hour.Perry testified Be did not intend to sell the vises hut planned to keep them for his own use. He can do vise work, he said.When Perry was arrested, detec-rtftmMww£fcPJYiaicefoof(Continued on Page 14)InhehatkIn:fowihiofpc
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Hamilton Evening Journal
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 14, 1922
Page 8
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