Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-13

| at the tOur courts. OtnCer Holmes
proceeded to search him while a crowd
stood round to hear. the boy tell lies.
He said his name was John Wellington,
that he was sixteen years old, lived in
Chicago and was going out on the plains,
and three out Of these four statements
were lies. He had with him the fol-
lowing
MUNITIONS OF WAR!
A 32-caliber breech-loading rifle, of
new and improved pattern.
A 22-caliber Defender 7-shooter re-
volyer.
A 32-caliber Nero 5-shooter.
Six boxes of cartridges for the above.
Several lots of loose cartridges.
A heavy slungshot.
Some powder, wadding, buckshot and
caps.
A book of fish-hOoks.
One slate-pencil.
A knife.
One of Mrs. Winslow's diaries.
Recipes for making harvest cakes,
orange jelly and for preserving beans.
A railway guide.
A minstrel song book.
A 5-cent novel, entitled "Mark the
Fearless; or, HOeing His Own Row"
| Another nickel novel, entitled "Brood-
ing Thrust; or, the Hermit of the Hills"
The words and music of the song,
He thinks do not love him."
A clipping from the New York Weekly
containing three verses of poetry by Ida
Raymond, beginning:
! sat me down at the evening hour
! And my heart was weary and lone,
All day had felt clouds of sorrow lower,
And no light o'ermy pathway shone.
Also pile of money. When asked
how much he had he said his father had
given him $3.50, but a careful count of
what he had in his pockets figured up
S243.76, to say nothing of a railroad
ticket from st. Louis to Council Bluffs,
la.
He was regular daisy, +" the officers
said. He poked fun at the officers,
winked at Capt. Lee, said he could take
care of his own row, and walked down
stairs with a light step, and lighter
heart, leaving the police authorities to
enter up one more case of run away
from home with stolen money, produced
by the reading of such five-cent novels
as Daring Dick, ~ " Prince of Detec-
tives, Black Bear" "The Outlaws
DOOM" "The Scarlet Spy" Angel
of the Waves" " Winged Moccasin, "
and other books of that ilk. On his
way to the calaboose the prisoner asked
if the officer had "The Boy Captive -
in his library, as he thought the present
fitting occasion in which to improve
his time by reading. The officer ex-
planned that the book was out"
Capt. Lee then searched the Chicago
Directory for the name " Wellington ~
without finding it, but found " Geo. F.
Wellington, butcher" plain enough,
and so telegraphed Chief O'Donnell, of
the lakeside city, asking if the boy was
wanted there.
A few hours later reply was received
that such party was wanted at Joliet,
ILL.,, for stealing money from a farmer
named David johnson, and thereupon
Sergeant Chapman went down to the
Calaboose to try and make the boy
"squeal."
The Turnkey, Tom O'Leary, turned
the boy out of the cell so that the con-
versation might be unobstructed. The
boy had piece of bull. neck in one hand
and chunk of bread in the other, and
fixed his eyes on Sergeant Chapman as
he asked:
"Do you know David johnson, far
merPn
The boy reflected, and continued to
eat. When he had disposed of the meat
and bread he said:
"David - JohnsonP NO -I-don't
know him."
"Chap." looked puzzled, Presently,
he said
Ever been in JolietP"
ain the pen, thereP No; l Iguess not. Z"
"But you've seen it from the outside,
ehP"
Yes, he had; and with this for a
starter, the Chiefs Secretary carefully
felt his way till the boy confessed, stat
ing that his name was George Blair;
that his father and mother, and all his
sisters, cousins and aunts were dead /;
that he was walking along the highway,
near Joliet, one day, when he met
farmer, named johnson, who took him
in and was trying to teach him farming
in return for his board that on Monday
afternoon about 4 o'clock he stole the
money he had from out the pockets of
Mr.. Johnson's coat, hanging on the
wall, and ran away, taking the l0;30 p.
M. train for .Braidwood, where he pur-
chased the greater part of his arsenal
and new pair of shoes; that he stop
ped at Bloomington to fill up, and so
came TO ST. Louis, where he bought his
rifle, and whence he intended TO go to
Omaha, where he believed he had some
relatives whose name and sex he did
not know, and after that he was going
on to the plains, to kill Indians and
hunt deer and buffalo and such small
game.
Whereupon the City Marshal OF Joliet
was properly advised by wire, and the
young desperate will be held till Mr..
johnson comes along and decides what
shall be done with him.
And till that event arises Secretary
Chapman has but one fear, and that is
that the boy has probably lied to him
with the same facility that he did TO the
officers who first took him in. The peo-
pile at the Four Courts did intend 10 Or
ganize an -yellow-backed literature
society, but after rejecting on the avid
ity with which they devoured the col
umns of the National Police Gazette con-
cluded to act consistently with their Off
cial tastes.
An American Marksman Astonishing
the Crowned Heads.