Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — Old Bob. [ARTICLE]

Old Bob.

Michigan City Dispatch. A character known to everybody about town is “Ohl Bob” at te penitentiary. He is a life timer and! his name is Wm, Robinson. He has been a prisoner here, longer than the penitently. His sentence) bears the ancient. date of. ‘lSepteinber'l9. 1827.” He was in the prison a -iiioit -.imo, and helped bud I the walls of the? one here. . His crime was that of killing a man, but it oecurod so long ago that everybody lias 'foi’gotten it. He has no friends and no home save the prison. There he is allowed extreme liberty. He goes

hunting and fishing at dr.s pleas./pre. He posess- s two digs that are valueless,' but cod'd BDtrKq bought of him for a million. He perhaps, is the only man in the prisob til'd would not accept; a pardon. At one time it was offered him by GovArffm* Hendricks. He sleeps with his dogs in a bunk above the wash house, and. dreams fdl sorts of Jr -am believes in superstition, spiritualism, ghosts and witches. L■e; . wa its a pittance for all t'as work lie does. Occasion is s--Idoia I’oun.l to reprimand him, but the greatLest- -punishment the ivarden can I inflict upon him is to t~-H him that Ihe will be locked out of the. walls.