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H. Stantz Saw Not the Bars and Stripes.THOUGHT ONLY OF DAISY.A Yougthful Navarre Swain Steals a Bicycle and Speeds to the Home of the Adored One—A Policeman Calls, and Now Stantz ie in Jail.I rHomer Stantz, of Navarre, and Daisy Crag, a belle of the “tenderloin/' will not be married on tbe date set. Staniz is in jail. He was arrested by Policeman Getz, Tuesday evening, and was charged with burglary and larceny. He pleaded guilty before Mayor Wise Wednesday morning, and in default of bail for $500 was taken to the county jail. Stantz stole a bicycle valued at $40 out of the store of Bernard Hall, at Na varre,on Monday night. He told the officers that he did it because he was in love, “I wanted to be with Daisy,” he said, “and I did not like the idea of walking five miles. So I took the wheel. My love for my wife to-be made rae blind, and I didn't realize what I’d done till the next day. Then I was ashamed to take the wheel back. But I was just bringing myself to see that it was tbe only thing for me to do when the policeman arrested me.”Stantz effected an entrance to the Bernard Hall place by cutting out a portion of a pane of glass in a door, through which he reached the lalch and slipped it back. The bicycle was found at a South Erie street resort, which Stantz frequented. Policeman Budd worked on the case all day Tuesday, and was successful in securing much information. Stantz admitted his guilt as soon as arrested. Mayor Warwick, Justice Walker and David Schrellier, of Navarre, came to the’ city Wednesday morning to look into another difficulty in which Stantz was the central figure. Stantz was the village lamplighter. He bought his horse and wagon from Mr. Schrefiler, who was his predecessor, giving the latter a mortgage on the property. The other day Stantz came to Massillon and sold the horse to Livery-man Bantz, representing it to be unencumbered. The mortgage to Sob re flier called for $38. Schreflirp, Staniz and the Navarre officers met Mr, Bantz Wednesday morning, and this matter was satis factorily adjusted. None of the parties concerned cared to prosecute.The Navarre citizens who were on Stantz’s bond notified the council Tuesday evening that they would no longer be responsible for the lamp-lighter, and asked that they be released from all obligations. The council decided to ask Stantz to resign, which the latter did shortly after his arrest. Stantz is about 21 years old. People who know him say there was much good in the young man but that evil associates in Massillon worked his ruin. Tbe offense of which he admits his guilt is punishable by pen a servitude.
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Massillon Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, May 03, 1900
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