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Ftq i,arruped Him.y Ever since the Gas City Pottery has y been in existence, they have beeu great-e ly annoyed by (livers persons stealing h crockery, breaking ware, sky lights, etc.- The other day Mr. Cox found three or i four boys monkeying around the works s and prying into things where they had y no business. He told them to get out, l- when the larger boy in the crowd re-e fused to go and began applying viie k epithets to Mr. Cox, who happened to 11! have a switch in his hand, which he d proceeded to use upon the boy. He gave him two or three pretty good y lashes and the boy stood not on the or* i r. der of going but got, and got quickly, j le j The switch proved a persuader of the first water. But that did not end it.iis The boy went home and told his father j n that he had been catching frogs, near j n I the pottery, but not on the pottery ,n premises, when Cox came out and gave him the above whipping. The father j a believing the boy’s story swore out a j warrant for Cox’s arrest. Mr. Cox up* peared before the Mayor, pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined one cent j ^ and costs.Mr. Cox had been persuaded by the officials on one or two occasions not to prosecute persons caught at petty thievery at the works, hence the Mayor’s leniency. He now proposes to make it warm for all offenders, as per a warning m another column.te8118tlhiBisoT1A'Ctheejf! br toaf bi st htHOeiyt-iyit.IXlfc ItIider(mtb01iSlotd(eBmntbiy*8Cin
Newspaper Details
Gas City Weekly Journal
Gas City, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 02, 1897
Page 4
Full Page
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