Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
The Queen Versus a Thief.

From paper printed in the mari.
time town of Coleraine, county Lon
donderry, province of Ulster, Ireland,
we quote the following report of a trial
in the Coleraine Petty Sessions, be-
fore the Right Hon. Sir II. II. Bruce,
Bart, Capt. Gage, r. NJ and five
Justices of the Peace. We print here
merely the initials of the offenders
name given in the court report:
1.-THE Queen, at the prosecution of Ser
geant George Wilson, Castlerock, charged a
lad of IA years, named J. W. with
stealing four hens, the property Of the Rev.
James Armstrong, and one hen, the property
of Mr.. John Carton. The prisoner pleaded
guilty. The Sergeant stated that the value
of the hens was under five shillings. The
boy had sold them to lady in the neighbor-
hood.
"The father of the boy stated that he in
tended to send him to America, where he
had brother and uncle already residing.
"The bench (the boys father promising 10
make restitution for the cost of the fowls
and to pay costs, and also to send the boy to
America within four weeks) postponed their
decision until that day four weeks"
AS this trial was held and this
promise was given in the court at Col
eraine four weeks ago, it is to be pre-
sumed that the young rapparee of Col
eraine has been shipped to America,
and he may be here by this time.
Incidents of similar kind are re-
ported, from time to time, in the pro-
ceedings of British courts.
An American official in Liverpool
has recently sent notice to our Gov
eminent that many lawbreakers or
eX convicts, and mendicants or paup-
ers, are sent to this country from that
port. He says: II think that at least
one hundred of these very objection
able emigrants leave Liverpool for
New York every week"
1t is not only the British authori-
ties that adopt the method of proceed
ure illustrated in the Coleraine case.
We have given recently the evidence
that the same method is taken by
courts and by municipal functiOnaries
in the German empire and also in the
Austro- Hungarian empire. Certain
classes of offenders are offered the al
imprisonment or emigra-
ton; and starvelings are shipped off
to save the expense of keeping them
in the poorhOuse
Our State Department has just be-
gun to investigate this nefarious bus
ness, so far as Germany is concerned
in it. Secretary Blaine has instructed
our Minister at Berlin to lay before
the German Government the case of
Nikolaus Bader, felon, who, when
he recently arrived at the Barge Office,
admitted that he had been sent here
at the expense of the authorities of the
town of Stanzach.
The Austrian practice has just been
illustrated by news from Vienna re.
ferring to the case of notorious swim
his readiness" to go to America if re-
leased from the penalty of the law.
His intimation seems to have raised
no surprise. We have not yet learned
whether his offer has been accepted
by the Court; but, if it has been, the
at the Barge Office must
keep lookout for Prince Karl LIGHT
enstein of Vienna.
Now, the nefarious and scandalous
practice which exists in several Euro
pean States of sending miscreants
and mendicants to this country must
be brought to an end, and ended for
ever. Such immigrants will not here
after be permitted to land at any OF
our ports or to come here by way of
Canada.
We serve notice to this effect upon
all the Governments, authorities, and
courts in all the countries of Europe,
the Petty Sessions at Coler-
aine, the functionaries of Stanzach,
and the courts of Vienna.-N. Y. San.