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rSheriff Gondrll and IVpuiy Sheriff Wilson, of Cambridge, arrived In Hn«city on Monday morning, a ft*w minntes before !l o’clock, having In charge theKewnnee bank robbers, viz * Pratt, Sc«'it, Welch and D ickie, four of as fin* looking young men as any comity can produce. The deoot anti platf nn were crowded with people of both sex, ant* ious to see the criminals, and who after secioe them gave one u i i vers \l exprcs. sion of horror at seeing young men of such promise doomed lo service in the State’s prison Finer young men than J J Pratt, and Dr. J. Scott Henry c mnty never lmd in It up to the time of the forgery arnj robliery, nnd abundant tcsti raony was produced at court showing thegood character aud fidelity of Welch and Dunkle upi to that time. Thu general sentiment imoug the better class of people is, thaUhe term for which they were sentenced ip quite longerionglv Itt fact, it the end litf penal, saucilons t« for, thereformation of live criminal, then 'k !lcs« tern would have answered as well.The whole thing is phinfttlly fad. Mr. Welch Is vtiell known here by many of our business men of whom they traded when ho ms runner for a firm in Chicago, ilo IS a young man of much urbanity aad fine personal appearance; bis health is onor and his, will probably prove to be more than a life sentence. Neither o!! those moo were born a thief or a robber. They were led to their crime by the spirit and practice of the ago. The poor, how., ever Uoneilit, are looked down upon by the rich. It is au iifHiction for a spirited man to be poor, because of its consequent ostracism in society. ‘Men become rich by robbery, and the man that can steal the most Hind dodge the law is the greatest man. ife presume that thero are many men within the radius of a huodrad miles square, who have .veriually committed robbery oq a larger scale tbaa did these young men who have never seen the in-side of a Spate’s prison. After all,honesty is the best policy aad the greatest nchcs.
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Geneseo Sun
Geneseo, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 01, 1882
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