Evening star., 1886-10-02

| New Serving = Sentence fer Burglary.
From the Philadelphi. News.
The massive doors ofthe eastern penitentiary
| have closed upon . man just crossed the thres-
hold OF manhood, who for the next 1ve years
will mediate in the gloom OF this cell on the
| way Of the transgressor. There are few sadder
| cases than that of handsome young Walter
England. You may smile when tell you that
the case is q sad one, and In the same breath
add that this man who will live living death
for i've years has served four years term In
the same institution, eight years in the Trenton
| state prison, eighteen months In the Allentown
| prison, and as a Lao q long term In the reform
school at Jamesburg, N. ]. He was born In
1855 near Orange, N. j.. or within twenty
means, gained honestly, and his mother was a
lOvable little woman, whose temperament was
sunshine ITSELF The father had ever been re-
spected among his fellows honorable
man, and just after the close OF the war he Was
reckoned to be worth a fortune closely approach
ing million of dollars, but the money brought
him no happiness, for his only sou, then q
Child at nine years. had given evidence of de-
aUle.
Nothing extraordinary was developed in the
child until he had reached the age Of years,
when lie was detected in the act OF hiding a sill
yer spoon Ia a hole in the garden. This seemed
10 be simply u childish whim, and the indul-
gent father provided the youngster with q dozen
them. Not long alter this the little fellow s was Was
caught in his mothers bedroom early in the
morning industriously turning his fathers
money he could find in them. For this he was
chided, aud it would have probably been tor
gotten mad not the same thing happened hall
dozen times in succession not many days after
ward Mark you, the boy was not then years
0ld; OLD. He nad every conceivable toy that boy of
ever caprice. AT the age OF he ab-
straeted purse from the overcoat of a
x,s5or and dsotad with precocous shrewdness
servant commit the theft. A few days
later the mother, to her unspeakaOle
with a lot of siiverware, ceverly concealed in
closet in the nursery. Before he had reached
his ninth year the boy had actually robbed no
less than a dozen persons VINO had visited the
house. He Was tneu delicate looking child
with big blue eyes, flaXen hair, and u waXy
skin. tie possessed none vi the exuberance vi
cnlidnood, Dut appeared TO be constantly in a
mediCatiVe mood. When accused OF these
many wicked acts, he would at first StOuLIy
asserL his Innocence, out when caught wou'd
confess Without the slightest show OF emotion.
Inc loving entreaIy Oi his nOtuer to tell her
why he diu these Lnlug had more effect
hmm lnan the slight punisnments inflicted by
MS iatner. Inc 10Y would endure whipping
with the stoici>m vi AN Indian, and at the very
hrst opportunity thereafter wound repeat the
Oiiense lur wnIcn he had been punished.
AZ tue tender age oi ten the little scamp was
Known III the neIS hOOrnuOd his home AS All
lnc"rrisloie thiei. Although never in want OF
spending money, he LOOK u deiignL iii puriOin-
Ing pennies from Children smaller than nim-
Sell, ANA ON one occasion wts caught IN the act
Of choking D little Fellow VINO uiiu refused 10
stand and deliver. Between tue ;.ges of ten
anu thirteen Wa,ter-iH cail nIm thai lur COLI
venience sake-was The source the grea lest
Srlei to Ills pafents. Their tears, tiieir plead
lnSs, tueif ture;itenlngs and puulSuneutS were
alike useless. Once In a wulie The boy would
SHOW sliSnL symptoms oI Repentance, but tue
iHterVois grew iurther and Iurtuer apart AMI AZ
last ceased altOgeLuer. just after his tnir.
teenth birthday Waller ran away from home.
dis poor NiO,ner Was almost wlIu ,tn ues,,,ir.
Detectlves were put 10 Work, advertisements
luserLeu In ali the leading neWspuperS,
tut to no purpose. A year later he came
Ddck. he refused 10 tell where he had been
.: now lie had managed To live. In Two
nisnt. and tuuk with MIN sum Oh money
De,oAslng To nis father. NOtIing more Was
heard vi nim IOr couple years. Then,
nom u description given III Que vi the news
papers, II Was learned that he had been ar
res.eu In the Interior OF New YORK state Iur
tfouoIe IN 1rcnton ana was sent TO the reform
school. Upon uiS reitaLse went 70 New York
ci,y dLu loruleu iut. acQua In L.ince oi uuIuu
oi notorious Criminals. Next nc Game to Puiit-
uclpuiSi aud uespILe Ills YOUTH one oI the
principals III a DiS SciieIne To roD tile Adams
ESpfesS company. Out was prevented by Iiit:
aieI LueSS Oi Certain detectives, VINO Thought il
until IL Was consuininaLed ana gain glory by
an arrest. ain una"le " tell you vi details
oi tue crime ior wulcn the uepraveu Youth
spent eight years lii the Trenton prison. No
sOOner Was lie out than ne Was engageu III mure
V.lian!, which Drought ann colI,;.ct Win the
AuehtoWn autnOfltIes. -Four years Cherry
Hiii followed this. Dut 1t n,d ciIasl sleuins
eIiect, ivr now Waiter Eng and cuiuea DacG
again 70 be punished Ior The crime Of burg.
larry.