The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-08

years, pardoned on the recommendation OF
the judge and many citzeus Of the county
on the ground that the sentence was excess
sive in view of the fact that this was HE
first and only offense James Norris, sent
enced at the April term, 1870, of the Will
Hanson county circuit court to imprison'
ment in the pententary for tsyears; sent
euce committed t, IL years. The reduction
of this sentence is made on the recomm0n-
dation of the Judge, states attorney and
numerous citizens of Williamson county.
The Judge states that while he thought tue
sentence just at the time he imposed it he
has since learned facts in connection with
the case which materially change that view
and raise the question whether lie should
have been convicted at all.
during the absence of Rev. Ge orge ia
the east his congregation here will decide
upon some important changes in their
church building. The present structure,
after thorough examination has proven
to be IN 50 decayed condition in parts,
that il is thought to bea waste of time and
money to give it such repairs as will insure
its good condition for any length of Nme.
The directors are therefore seriously con-
sderng the ACCESSIBILITY of having the pres
ent building taken down aud replacing II
with new one. That the necessity for
this was not discovered before the late ex-
tensive repairs 10 the church is cause for
some regret.
BY notice in special local column it
| will be seen that meeting OF the Halliday
Guards is to take place at the Armory on
Tenth street. The meeting is called for
the purpose of instracting the company
in military tactics. Captain Walden, OF
the Porter Guards OF Memphis, now in
charge Of the Cotton Compress here, has
consented to take the guards here in charge
and and instruct them two or three times
weekly, in the art of handling the guns,
etc. The captains reputation as an in
structor is a guarantee that his Cairo pupils
will be military experts before many
weeks roll around. To morrow night the
captain is to give the guards their llrst lesson.
Offices Martin and Mahanny accomp-
plsbed splendid piece Of detective work
yesterday. Some time during Monday
night the Union depot was burghrized and
robbed Of one five gallon keg of whiskey.
a bucket of candy, a box of tobacco and
case of select oysters, which were to be
shipped on the Iron Mountain road. There
was no clue tn the perpetrators of the deed
and small show Of recovering the goods.
But Officers Martin and Mahanny set them
selves to studying the circumsta noes anu
named Nicnolls and Williams whom they
arrested yesterday after long and labor-
Gus chase several miles below the city, 10
the cotton woods. search for the goods
was then made and they were all found
hidden away in hollow log, not far from
where the thieves were captured Every
thing was found intact excepting the case
Of oysters, which had been broken open
and several cans were missing. The
! thieves have confessed the crime and are
awaiting tie action Of thegrand jury Mon
day.
In order that there may be no misun-
| Outstanding as to the action of Messrs.
| Farnbaker in the Britton watch robbery, it
may be best to state the whole truthful
story The affair in detail as Britton him.
self tells it. Brittol, the owner of the
watch, is bar-keeper at SCOTS Congress;
Thomas the thief, was partner Of Brit
toms and was rooming with him. Britton
discovered his loss Monday morning when
he got up, and his suspicious were directed
almost Immediately against Thorn
as who could not not be found about
the place. He went out IN
search of Thomas, out found him not,
and then he began to look for his watch
where he thought it might have been left
tor money. After visiting the jewelry
stores without finding It, he went to Messrs.
Farnbaker to whom he described the
watch infinitely, but who also denied hsv'
ing such watch. Bfitton then asked
them 10 look out tor IL; if any one of the
description of Thomas, which he also gave,
came to pawn the stolen jewelry, to take
it, detaiu the holder and notify Britton of
the fellows presence. Messrs. Farnbaker
wrote down the description of the watch
and the thief, and then demanded to know
how much they should give for the watch
and chain, and Britton replied not over
twenty dollars, with the understanding, of
course, that he was to be given an oppor-
tunity to capture the thief with this money
in possession Messrs Farnbaker also wrote
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