The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-18
OUT in THE COLD WORLD
SOLD BILL" MALADY, LOATH TO GO
FORCED FROM JAIL.
Once He Fought Policemen, but Now
He Pleads to Be sent 'HOme"
to Prison.

when a good. thief gets 10 be
forty or fifty years Old SAID
Captain of Detectives Colbert yes
terday. "he becomes clumsy. AS a result
he is caught more frequently. Then he be-
comes disheartened, begins to drink hard
and at last he goes on the rocks Old
Bill Malady is about fifty years old. He has
been a thief all his life, but he never was
a good thief He is dissipated and broken
now"
"Old Bill" Malady's last term of imprison-
ment-he has been in prison many of the
last twenty years of his life-expred Mon
day. Several days ago, the day of his re-
lease approaching, he began to hint that
he would like to stay and work for his
board and lodging. He was a trusty and his
industry about the Jail was something re-
markable, especially after he had intimated
that he would like to remain as a voluntary
bcarder. Yesterday morning it was neces-
sary to tell him he must 60 He moped
about like boy leaving home to go away
to school, and his beseeching expression
was pathetic, but he had to take what lit
tie clothes he had and leave.
This peculiar desire of Malady to remain
behind the bars wheA he might be at lib
erty, is the ultimate consequence of a life
or crime old policemen say Twenty years
dSOB Wuel AlcldQy was a young man, ne WAS
good looking and active. He was seldom
known to work. He seemed to be by nature
thief. His tricks were never daring. One
of his favorite schemes was to steer a
drunken man into an alley and rob him.
So far as is known he never had hand
In big job" But he was game to fight
when the police went after him and several
policemen now on the force can relate tales
OF tussles they had with "Old Bill" Nal
ady.
AS the years went on he sank lower and
lower stealing and going to the peniten-
tiary alternately. He came TO spend con-
siderable time in barrel houses, a sure mark
of degeneracy, the police say. The last time
he was arrested a girl named Shipman one
of his relatives, charged him with attempt
ing to assault her. There was always doubt
as to the truth of the charge, but Malady
was sentenced to the Penitentiary for from
two to fourteen years Judge McCray
granted him new trial. The trial was
held, and the court would have discharged
Malady had it not been that the prematurely
old man made this appeal to him:
Judge, If you put me out, I'll have to go
to stealing again, and it'll be the same thing
over again. Give me a sentence to the Jail
thaL'H hold me till spring."
The court complied and gave Malady a
four year sentence in the Jail. Malady be-
came charity prisoner, as it were. and
was Immediately made a trusty Like Frank
Girton, the colored man sent to prison few
days ago for grand larceny, steel bars
pretense that he really had any right in
jail When Judge McCrays term expired
he wanted to release Malady, but "Old Bill
pleaded hard not to be turned out in the
cold world and the judge decided it would
be the better part to let him stay his sem
tence through.
Every time before that I've been in the
pen" Malady was wont to say. I've been
guilty. but this time | committed no crime"
And when the keepers of the Jail turned
him out through the iron door yesterday
morning they pitied "Old Bill-without a
home, without friends and trained to no
work but to steal, and that only clumsily