Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — PROVED TO BE BAD CHARACTER [ARTICLE]

PROVED TO BE BAD CHARACTER

Drunk Who Frightened Telephone Girls Proves to be Paroled Illinois Convict. T. J. Shoeman and John Lutkehern, from the Chicago aetective force, arrived here last Tuesday morning equipped with the proper requisition papers for George Ingolsby alias Jas, Hoolihan. This is the man who was arrested by Sheriff O’Connor assisted by Special Officer Christy Vick, about a week ago, after he had created quite a disturbance at the telephone office, and later'at the office of the county clerk. After landing here in the morning he ate a lunch at T. W. Grant’s grocery store, near the depot, an 1 , when he left the store he carried away the cheese butcher knife. He seemed to be both intoxicated and dopy and was a wild specimen of the genus homo, mak ing dramatic demands for immediate long distance telephone connectinwith Capt. Porter, of the Chicago police force. When taken into custody the knife was found in his overcoat pocket and it is * quite probable he would have used it had he had a good chance. He was fined for intoxication aud the Sheriff found a blank parole from the Tlli nois penitentiary, in his pocket when he searched him. The Sheriff at once communicated with the warden of the Joliet penitentiary and at midnight that night he received reply that the man was wanted there for violating his parole. Application was made for requisition paper# and Sheriff fy Connor was notified by letter to he sure to hold the prisoner. ! The officers that came after him stated that be had been sentenced in November, 1902, in Chicago, for burglary, for from 1 to 14 years, apd that last May he was paroled, the condition of parole being that he was to work for a man named Geo. P. Maurer at Maple Park 111. It to make monthly report to the prison wai den, stat ing how much money he had earned and what he had done with it. He had failed to do these things and had been a fugitive for several ' months before he was,apprehended here. It was a good catch, for it seems that Ingoldsby had a’criminal rec ord in Onieago covering several years previous to his apprehension. He is about 35 years old and will now be retained in the penitentiary for the balaaoe of his sentence, something over eight years more.