Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1912 — COURT FINES MEANEST MAN [ARTICLE]

COURT FINES MEANEST MAN

New Yorker Confesses Stealing Six Dollars His Wife Had Saved for Rainy Day. New York.—Magistrate Appleton in the Tombs court declared that he had discovered / “the meanest man” In James Dowling of 55 Rose street, who pleaded guilty to stealing six dollars his wife had saved for a rainy day. He was remanded to the Tombs to await trial in special sessions. Dowling was left in the house to mind his three children while his wife, who Is ven weak, went out to earn 75 cents cleaning an office. She had no sooner gone than Dowling took the money and abused his children. When his wife returned she learned of the theft of the money and st once went out and had Dowling arrested. She informed Magistrate Appleton that her husband had refused to work, and said that she would have been; willing to do*lt all if he would only stop getting drunk, but how she could not think of doing so, as, Instead of watching the children, he beat Them After hearfng all the facts. Magistrate Appleton denounced Dowling as “the meanest men alive” and disgrace to manhood" and remanded him to the TomMfelhr Wst ’