, 1877-11-14
A Few Of the Many Crimes OF the
Gang.
Larceny, Mayhem, Conhdencing, Bun
koing, Highway Robbery, Etc.
How Havc They Managed to Escape the
Clutches OF The Law /
Tho state's~Attorney Requested to Shove
Them Along to Joliet.


existence and 0ourIshfng abundance Of the
dirty, cowarl1Y, aud Infamous Eaur Of There's,
ihugs. brsIscrs, and women.hcatcrs namcll
Clarity. There arc at present four OF these
vile criminals scattered about in the County
jail anu clsexherc. II they had their tleaerts
they would mot bc alive or ut liberty ono
moment. BY way Of Introduction Il may he
said that there are four Of these mshcgotten
wl,c1ps now maltrcating tn. city by living init.
Their namcs arc Hugh, John, Mike. and
Tommy, ana there Is not tr1ulc on
tlta siatutc-book that they have
not anong them committed. To be
sure, Tommy is rather young Jet, and only ut to
pick pockets, rt1c railways, AMI rob inarn
women and young children, but he makes no
poor hand NJ these branches Of crime and sucl
others rs come In his way. lie is growing up
from smart little thief to tho eninenee nf
highway sobber, and may even hope to be ab1c
to commit murder II the other brothers don't
get killed before they have time to teach him
what they know.
The origin OF this remarkable famIly OF beast
" and brutal criminals Inns nothing remarkable
In II, except perhaps II be that they conc from
comparatively decent parents. They have
Just now come into special pronl-
ncncc-as they often have before
ny Lug u EI1H1E Ol
revolving brutality In which two Of the coward
ly, sncaktng bcas&s came together upon ono
man, not half ss large Us either, and. tEic,l to
kill him, while n third brother kept OF tho
crowd. A Grim inal reporter Of long cxpcrienre
in ttis city cannot remember ia all the years 60
utterly tnhuman and acoundrclly IN attack as
when two men fell upon one TO murder him
with glas. bottles, and then tried TO stamp on
If fha 0AeaU1f mnla hc ff1par 1,na$ ri #0rR of
Satan on their former " pal " and friend.
TIE HISTORY or THE CASH
has been before giyen In these columns, but tie
reasons for. the assault have not been written
John Garrtly robbed Bowling Of some 800
when Dowling was drunk, and fed with
II to Memphis. Bowling sent detective after
him and brought bin back. i did not scem to
the matter Into the COURTS and 80 It was cleared
up by the repayment Of tic sum stolen. Since
that time there bas not been the best OF feeling
between thc gang, growing, = ng doubt out q
never forgtYes friend who has done hltn
favor. .
Curiously enough, The Garr,tss, big, unconth,
dirty snea';s as tlcy ars, heyan thcir career as
@ 5esua 'oia man auu;sss u %mass" q him ssen Thea
he cannot defend himself. Indeed,
using The biudccon. Tlieir whole history has
been one round Of brutal cruelty, such a. I'M
piled In knocking down woman with o club,
au1 then jumping On her face willie e1le Ii
scnsclcss. There Ia no record Of their ever
having shown cvcu one traIt or Instance Of
courage or bravery. They are by nature 80 far
belox ths suFslos As 70 max nakc ,t tc namc "soa
been nblo TO attain. And these eowar1iy, br,-
tal beasts have been allowed to pretty murli
run run A. large nh through tht. , ely ,, tor
Lave sS Dssn slrc.ei Sut have generally used s ts
money taken from victims to hIru men to swear
them out Of trouble. II has bccu attempted
below TO cult from the records few Of the
many cases aeatHst the gang, though, of eourse,
TO June, fSG9, tic scoundrels lad con1ned
themselves mainly to confidence games aud tho
like, and had not gone INTO brutality on 60
nsn @ofstnE, sS June i" s' 5 isSo 't te anrty w
brought up Oil iIabeaa corpus, he being at
that time \ prisoner In tho County jail
awaiting transportation to iowa His Of
e ear @ con sols a1nS Deea bten slt.e a.
the request Of the Governor Of lows, be Was
on his way to that State when
uU1l1, HIS WORTHY DNo1HERt
to esa ks ad ssS
there was good ground for holding hlM. Just
ns tho t,!Icf waa going tlown.stAirs 2gnin in
charge Of Two olf'cers named lioelo md batlelt.
gcr, Hugh GaEri.y ran up behind lioglc and
another thief named No!nallnn cauGht hold Of
I,aiIenger, and In the melee Mike ran oR After
q time thu fOl!co got bold OF Hugh, and he WINS
tried Dec. II, lSCO. and found guilty, and scn-
n'a1ued'thcte only short time, beIpg pardoncd
hecauae OF his being III.
Friday, Nov. ~, 1s71, q few weeks after
Hugh Clarity w,s Felcasca from ahs, Peni-
tcutEary on 4 physician's certificate, he had SO
far recovered bis health as to w able to par.|et
pats in .-.......
AHi0uwAY ROBBERY
OF character robuat enough to ba credltablc to
. full-htooue1 thug anl scnuudrcl. On tha
night named above uasrity and pal named
Charles Weed (alIas Jmmy Powcrs) lay In walt
for clerk in grocery stare On the corner of
stats and ,Tayl1r streets. The. clerk, whose
y tho utmost Of his strength. an!
thr victim over tho head until he was
senseless. Aeanwhila enough noiss was sna.ia
tsok both Garrity aul Weesl to tho ioekup.
They were, on tic following Monday, held In
bail of 5000 each to atlswer. Indictments
wcro promptly found against Hugh and Weed,
guilty. After several continuances and nun-
| appearances by lingh, his bail being forfeited,
| Int thu sci fa subsequently dtsntssed, he faced
"thc twelve . In the Criminal Court, anu they
tary. liz left thu city shortly after being SEN
| tenccd, and, rs before, remained only
> short part Of Ills term In prison.
After he had bccu there \ portion OF bis teFna,
| strong effort WA made to seizure Ills rcleaSu.
4 petition VIVA drawn up, signed by The statc'a-
Attorney and prominent citizens OF Chicago,
and backed ny the Chaplain ind physician OF
the Pententtary. Tho former believed that
tue Latter said lc was just opa ulcer, anil
wouldn't live lnore than q month or two II be