Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1915 — SHORT WORK MADE OF HOBO BURGLAR [ARTICLE]

SHORT WORK MADE OF HOBO BURGLAR

Howard Boone Entered McCoysburg Store and Was Arrested and Convicted Same Day. ' Howard Boone- 35 years of age and a hobo by profession and confession, is now in the county jail and will be started within a day or two for the penal farm to serve a term of six months. At an eally hour this Thursday morning some one at McCoysburg saw a light in McDonald’s store and informed the proprietor. Before he arrived at the store the intruder had gone but he had left his mark in the shape of a discarded pair of shoes and old pants. A nempty shoe box and a disordered pile of overalls showed what was missing. About the time of the investigation Tom Becker reported that he had seen a man going south on the railroad track. Mr. McDonald hastened to Monon and after getting Marshal James Wilson began a search for the man and found him. He had on the stolen shoes and two pairs of overalls from the McDonald stock, also a handkerchief and some nickle and penny change stolen from the money drawer. The man was making plans to walk out of Monon and must be some walker for he had evidently gone from Rensselaer to Monon during Wednesday night and it was about 3:30 in the morning when he was seen in the Mc-

Donald store. He gave his name as Howard Boone and said his home was in Anderson, Ind., but that he spent most of his time hoboing about the country. He said he had served two terms in the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville and one term in the prison at Columbus, Ohio. He did not seem so mind the prospect of going back to Jeffersonville but said he had avoided taking any of the $8 or $lO in the postoffice money drawer in the McDonald store, as he did not want to get tangled up with the federal authorities and have to go to Fort Leavenworth. He was brought to Rensselaer and Deputy Prosecutor Sands filed an affidavit charging him with burglary. This was later changed to petit larceny as the burglary charge is from 10 to 20 years in the penitentiary. Judge Hanley then stentenced him to serve six months on the penal farm. He was sentenced less than seven hours from the time he had committed the act.