Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — Dau Colman In Stripes. [ARTICLE]

Dau Colman In Stripes.

Sheriff Yeoman delivered Dan Coleman over to the prison authorities, at Michigan City, last Thursday. Dan wa« very cheerful about j the whole affair. He was acquaiutel with Mr. Donnelley, an officer! ; at the prison who formerly resided I ! at Remington, and : th rough him j j expected to get an easy job, a team to dri,-e, or, something luiiallyaH jilcimrub’’ Donnelly I said that lie did know Coleman but (lid not know any good of him: : am! took pains to find him a job 1 wlir redie would earn his keeping. ! The cooper, shop is the hardest | Work, but Coleman having lost two fingers of his right hand could net : handle the adz, and he was there- ! fore given a job in the chair i'actc- ! ry, the next hardest place. AY hen j kir. Yeoman took leave of Colman j Friday-m-orning-he was wearing a' rprisop suit, iottL sizes too large, ! apd the prison barber had got in . his worn on 'Dan’s, 'niusim-he and ; pompadour;.he still wtne his persisistent grin but was reminded by Mr. Donnelly that even that would have to be laid aside, if he did not Want to make the acquaintance of tbs prison cat. Mr. Yeo- ! man saw, while at the prison, | AY east and Mull, the young tel lows ! who were arrested here last spring ! and subsequently seni. up for two Ijrearg each, from Elkhart county, for stealing. ; Colman is now Jaspor county’s | sole representative in the prison * excepting old man Kittening, the 1 cove thief, whose two years sen*, j teu'ce will be out in October. There i are other charges hanging dver- : the old man, and he may get another term.