Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-27
Citp anb County SntrlIiorntr.


The STATE REFORM SCHOOL CUrPRITs.-
On complaint of William E. Starr, Superin-
tendent, Daniel Crea Ian and his five accom-
plices, James E. Simpson, John Kinney,
Michael Murphy, John Quinlan, and Albert G.
Meady were yesterday brought before Trial
Justice Boynton in Westboro', pleaded guilty
to the charge of being principal and accessor-
les, respectively, i'll setting fire to the school
building, and were bound over, Creadan in the
sum of 5000, and his five accomplices in the
sum of $1,000 each, to recognize for their ap-
pearance at the next [Octoberl term of the
Criminal Court for this county to be held in
Worcester. In default, they were all commit
ted to Jail. All of them except Meady were
previously in Jail in this city. Meady was at
the institution in Westboro'. Creadan yester-
day fully declared to the officer having him in
charge, his regret for what he had done, on
account of his widowed mother, and asked
what would be done with him, saying he
meant to behave better in the future.
Three of these boys-Simpson, Quinlan,
and Kenney-were at the institution on sec
ond commitments, having each been out
short time, on trial, after their first commit
ment.
A brief history of these boys is as follows
Daniel Creadan, from Salem, aged fifteen, is a
native of Ireland, and has been at Westboro'
one year, having been sentenced there for four
years, for larceny. His father, John Creadan,
died in Ireland eleven years ago, soon after
which his mother emigrated to this country,
taking up her residence in Salem, where she
has since resided. He has an elder brother,
upon whom his widowed mother is dependent
for support.
James E. Simpson, from New Bedford (col-
ored), aged fifteen, who furnished Creadan
with the matches, has been i'll the institution
five years, for larceny, being sentenced till he
is twenty-one His father, Edward Simpson,
has been dead several years.
John Quinlan, aged also about fifteen, from
South Boston, has been in the institution about
five years for truancy, "not going to school,"
&c. He is native of st. Johns, N. B. He is
son of Thomas Quinlan, mason, who lives
yet in South Boston. John is under sentence
to remain during his minority hailing on his
second commitment from Marblehead, where
he was apprenticed
John Kenney, from Clinton, in this county,
also about fifteen, has been in the institution
five years in all, for running away from
home, as he says, being sent there on his
second commitment by Justice Dame, till he is
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in Clinton.
Albert c. Meady, aged twelve, from Salem,
whose father, moi now living, was William
Meady, has been at the School but two or
three months, having been sentenced there for
six years, for larceny. He says he is a native
OF Maine.
One little boy, named George Albert New
comb, from Ware, confined in the Jail at Fitch
burg, who first discovered the fire and in
formed the officers of the institution, was
taken from Fitchburg to Westboro' yesterday,
for witness in the trial, but the six boys ar
raigned, all pleading guilty, his testimony was.
not used,
The names of the two boys missing from
the institution at Westboro', since the fire,
are George Teal, aged IA, from Charlestown,
sentenced for larceny, and Michael Corners,
aged IA, from Roxbury.
One of the three boys missing from the
Fitchburg Jail, named Henry NJ. Smith, aged IA,
has been found in South Deerfeld, from which
place he was sentenced to the institution.
Two only are now missing from the jail viz
Lawrence McGovern, aged IA, from Law
renee, and VIM. Kelley, aged II, from Rox-
bury. Larceny was the crime for which they
were sentenced there.