The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-23
TO GO TO JAIL.
Two Boys Who Wanted to Be
Sent to CranStOn.
Dissatisfied When They Were Sent
Home and Not to Prison.

Two youths named Stephen Mcleod
and Dennis Keanin, who are l6 and II
years OLD respectively, ana who work In
the wsnskuck mill, are q oit dissatisfied
with their present condition. They are
both Orphans ana though one OF tn EN-
has been as kindly treated as the cir
cumstances OF the lady who has brought
him up would permit, still he and his
companion say the cash comes very slow.
Both boys claim that they receive IS q
week, and that after paying their board
they have no money left to educate
themselves, so after a good deal OF hard
thinking they reached the conclusion
that life within prison walls would be
better than liberty at IS a week.
Their ideas do not seem to have been
clear as to why they preferred to 60 to
Jail, but as one of them told Lietenant
Murray at the Second police station last
night he "wanted to learn something"
Visions OF psrading in the uniforms OF
the Sockarosset Cadets seemed to have
been troubling the boys, for they got Jail
and reform school mixed up, and they
had some plain truths about jail life set
before them.
The way they happened to have an in
terview with Lieutenant Murray, who,
from his wide experience with persons
who naye tasted the sweets OF Jail life,
led him to give them some good advice,
was as follows: After many conferences
"Steve" and "Denny" made up their
ninds TO steal something and then in q
heroic way go and give themselves up.
In their minds the plan appeared so
bright one that they drilled with sticks
80 ~rney might not be put with the
awkward squad" when they got permits
sion TO join the cadets at what was
formerly known as the reform school
The two youths went to a store near
Bran:h avenue and took an article Of
more or less value from the store and
dumped 1t in the gutter OF side street.
They dia not wait FOR a policeman nor
were they willing to wait for the patrol
wagon. Walking was good enough for
them, so they went to the station.
Fortunately for The boys, but greatly
to their disappointment, their story was
not substantiated by the store keeper
from whom they claimed to have stolen
the article, so after some telephoniug
they were sent to their homes. One
would have thought by the slow ana dis
satisfied way "Steve" and Dennis moved
from the assembly room Of the station
that they had been invited to banquet
aud sent away before anything bnt the
soup had been served. The officers at
of the boys that life would be any live
lIer for them at the jail.
NORTH END NOTES.
The funeral OF Philip Gro. in, an old
resident Of Capitol Hill, took place from
st. Patrick's Church this morning and
was very largely attended.
Henry NJ. Brjgg Of Engine IS is enjoy
ing his annual vacation.
Tpe parry of wanskuck merchants that
is clearing the Maine rivers of fish and
the woods of the same state OF game, Is
expected home next Saturday.
Brother Graham of Court Hope, Fores-
ters of America, has returned from a trip
abroad, during which he visited his OLD
friends in ireland.
The hanging OF lanterns on some bad
places in streets was about all the police
business there was in this section last
night.
A resideptrof Shawmut street, who has
seven cows that he put to Craze near the
last night that the cows had either stray
cd or been driven away.