The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-18
THE KIDS RECORD.
Notorious Kid Donnelly Gets
Forty Years in San Quentin.
HIS RECORD in THIS CITY.
shot Through the Liver in North Se-
attic by Oficer Faucet End
of His Career.

john Wilson, the young highwayman
who was sentenced 10 San Quentin prison
for forty years a few days ago by Judge
Wallace at San Francisco is none other
than that young scoundrel kid" Dom
nelly alias Frank Kinnard. who was shot
through the liver at North Seattle August
81 or September /. iss3, by Officer Harry
Faucet.
alt was late at night when Faucet en-
coun;ered DenncIly and a pal and de-
mantied TO know their business. One OF
them started TO tell story about having
come from logging camp, to which they
were going TO return Immediately, when
the officer noticed a large new chisel pro-
trading from the coat of KIDS partner.
What's THAR said the officer. The
answer was unsatisfactory. SO the young
men were marched to the nearest patrol
box.
When Faucet started to ring in Dom
nelly stepped back a few steps and. draw
Ing a gun. fred poin, blank at him, but
missed the mark. Faucet was a man
vino could shoot at a moments notice, so
he returned the fire.
Donnelly and his partner, however, ran
and ESCAPED. Two hours later Donneily
was found lying on the ground about
three blocks away. with a bullet wound
In his abdomen. He was very anxious TO
be taken 10 private room. but Instead
he was taken to Providence hospital In
the patrol wagon. He gave the name OF
Fra.A Kinnard, but was soon identified
as the notorious kid DonneIiy and also
as the man who shot at Faucet. He lay
in the hospital from September ! 10 De-
cember 5. when he went to Walia Walia
for one year. While In the hospital IL
was discovered that he had been one of a
party OF four who robbed a house at
wnateom of s2.50o and also held up and
ss1ah a at az4a nf Ioir nf
One of his pals got seven years for the
last crime, but Donneily escaped punish
meni.
On one occasion he planned to burglar
lie a grocery store in South Seattle and
had ii not been for the weakness of his
partner might have committed murder.
When they got into the store they made
some noise which awoke the proprietor.
Donnelly proposed 10 FIX. the man in
stead of giving up the job. but the other
fellow got scared and jumped out OF the
window. This, of course. forced the MUIR
derous young brute to give up his plan.
and he also beat hasty retreat. He be-
haved well while In the hospital. but had
no use for one of the observation-disclosures
reporters who asked one of the sisters In
his hearing how the young villain was
getting along. He said that when he got
good opportunity he would have VEN
geance on the man who called him such
names.
In San Francisco. as in other places, he
has always played the ''unsophisticated
youth racket but, while Judge Wallace
did not know his record, he showed most
excellent Judgment in putting behind the
bars for life a person who is undoubtedly
one of the most cunning. treacherous and
wiuhal capable criminals on the Pacific
coast. He gave his age as IL before Judge
Wallace In hopes of getting into the re-
form school, gave the same number of
years when he was admitted to Proyi-
dence hospital, and yet the Oregonian
which has his record 10 a nicely, In 1893
said he was 10 years old. No matter how
many years have passed over his head,
he Is an octogenari an In crime