Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1902 — PERRY HOLL’S ADVENTURES. [ARTICLE]

PERRY HOLL’S ADVENTURES.

Since Leaving Jasper County His I Life Has Been Full of Excitement. Perry Hull, the McCoysburg lad who gained so much notoriety and a term in the reformatory for buying a horse of James McDonald and paying for it with a check on a bank where he had no money deposited, is back here on business connected with the settlement of a family estate in which hehas an interest. He is now a motorman on the Birmingham electric road running from Pontiac to Detroit, Mich., at good wages. His home is at Pontiac. Perry left here last February with six cents in his pocket. He beat his way to Michigan City, where he found the street railway system in the hands of a receiver and all the cars, two in number, stopped, as the regular motormen, owing to the uncertainty of receiving their pay, had gone on a strike. Hull accepted a job on one of the cars and got along very well until April, when he collided with a freight car and was discharged. He then shipped on the Bertha L. Innwood, a lumber boat, as a common sailor. The crew consisted of captain and mate, Perry and two other sailors. The next month the boat, loaded with lumber, collided with two other boats in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and was split in two. The captain and mate were drowned, but the three sailors were saved. When the vessel was struck Perry was working on the mast. One side of the vessel was torn away and the boat toppled over in the water, but being loaded with lumber did not sink. Perry clung to the mast all night, when he was rescued. He then went to Marlette, Mich., where his wife and parents lived. During his stay there, his father-in law was bittea by a horse and died. In June his mother in-law, his wife and himself took a trip to Aberdeen, Scotland, returning to Detroit in August, where Perry secured a job as motorman, which be still holds.