Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-29
"AsSVED" coNWIcTs.
How British SABirdS Arc Bribsd
Into Comi1s America.
she Peculiar worh formed by a
so-Caned Christ ITfooiety.
Discouraging Set-BaS& ,ceived by
One of Its Members~..a eveland.


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Cleveland Leader, June 20.
At II o'clock yesterday morning >. L.
Hoyt, of Elyria, who is a conductor on
the Toledo division Of the Lake Shore
road. was walking along Superior street.
When in front of Ryder's art store he
was stopped by a heavy-set, muscular,
foreign looking man. The man was a
stranger to him. "What do you wantf
asked Hoyt. 81 want your watch was
the cool reply of the fellow, who at the
same time made a clutch for a heavy gold
chain hat depended fromthe conductors
vest. The links of the chain were
wrenched apart, but the watch remained
in Hoyt's pocket. Superior street wa
well filled with people at the time, but
the affair was conducted 30 unostenta-
tiously that very few pedestrians noticed
it. Being foiled in the attempt to secure
the watch the foreign looking man walk
ed coolly and deliberately away. Hoyt
at once pointed the man out to officer
Hammel, who followed him up and ar
rested him. A charge Of assault with in
tent to rob was preferred against the man.
who was bound over by Judge Hutchins
to the court of common pleas in the sum
of 81, 500. The fellow.
GAVE HIS NAME AS JOHN BoCK
He is an Englishman by birth, and proba-
bly, thirty years of age. He is above the
medium in height, very broad ~shouldered,
wears a full brown beard, and appears to
be a determined character. He looks
like a desperate case, and undoubtedly is
one. BY his own acknowledgment he
has already served two terms of seven
years each in English prisons, once for
stabbing a man and the last timefor way
laying and robbing a pedestrian.
"How long have you been in the
countryl" a reporter asked Book.
"Ten days." he replied.
"Where did you come fromF'
Il came from Lsndon,"
'What induced you to come to this
country.
81 was sent out by the st. Charles
Christian society"
"How was thatq"
"Well, you see l had to be sent from
Portsmouth prison to London to be dis
charged. ! wa taken in hand at once
by the society and told that if l joined
the society l would be allowed E6 fol
good conduct in prison instead of f3.
was on ticket-of~- leave, you know, fol
eighteen months after l left prison, ant
under police surveillance for FIVE years
and when the society wanted to shi]
me to this country Of course l came a
once"
"Did any other ex-convicts come will
your
eyes, four of them, but we got sepa
rated in New York city, and / haven
seen them SINCE"
"a great many men are sent to thi
country in the same manner, aren'
theyq"
IA good many. You see they don
like to leave the old country, but the
are allowed more money by the govern
ment if they do, and secure a free passat
from the Christian societies. This is son
little inducement, but nothing in col
parison with.
and avoiding police surveillance. VI
see every %ex-convict is under police su
Vigilance for a certain number of yeal
after her leaves prison, and to avoid tn
many will immigrate, especially whe
they get their passage Free"
WF 'Did the Christian Society allow W
any money besides paying your passage
"Yes, they gave me e."
Show long have you been out
PRISON.
"Just q month ago to-day"
''What induced you to come to Clev
land2"
"Well, you see, they paid my fare
Pittsburgh; / didn't want to stay ther
30 Event to Youngstown; | found Young
town too small for my line of business,
/ left there to come here; / walked ALT
way; left Youngstown last Friday"
"You came to this city alone, then?'
"Yes."
"Why did you attempt to hold the IN
up in the middle of the day when y
were so much more liable to arrest tn
at night2"
swell, / was hungry. ! hadn't touch
anything since Saturday, and / was ne
ly starved. Generally I do that sort
thing at night, but if ] had my mate WI
me ! wouldn't have been caught, even
the day time"