The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-10
YOUNG GIRLS INFLUENCE
1T CAUSES A CRIMINAL TO WALK
INTO ARMS OF THE LAW.
"Red" Finley Returns to the City, Is
Arrested and at Once Visited
by His Sweetheart.

John Red" Finley, the notorious, is in
the tolls again. Finley is wanted this time
for burglary committed on the night of
Oct ?. 1901. He confessed to Captain Hy
land yesterday afternoon. Finley is eighteen
years old and lives at 1O2 Geisendorff street.
Finley, in company with the notorious
Senator" Moran, who is now serving time
in the Jeffersonvine Reformatory for the
same crime with which Finley is charged,
entered the drug store of DR.. John Rhodes,
$50 South West street, during the evening
of Oct. % 1901, and while one kept DR..
Rhodes's attention the other looted his
cigar and tobacco case. DR.. Rhodes discOv-
cred the trick in time TO catch Finley.
Moran escaped. Finley, with his usual
show of injured innocence, succeeded in
gaining his liberty before the police ar
rived. Later in the evening the Moran
Finley gang attempted to blow the safe in
the office of the Indianapolis Street-rail-
way Company. Moran was caught in the
act and, with a number of minor factors
in the crime, was sent TO Jail. Red Fin
ley escaped. Moran was sent to the peni-
tertiary. Finley left the city and is saiG
to have been in Chicago.
There is a tint of romance connected with
Red Finley's return to Indianapolis. Old
pals connect the name of a pretty sixteen
year-old girl living on West Pearl street
with his return to this city to answer TO the
charge of burglary and petit larceny. Fin
ley had made up his mind to keep away
from Indianapolis. The pleadings of his
sweetheart to return home and suffer ar
rest and punishment were effective. and
early yesterday morning Red" alighted
from Big Four freight train and returned
to the hearth OF his girl sweetheart.
Bicyclemen Hull and Alberts were APP
prised of his return, and they found him
at his sweetheart's home. He was taken
to the police station and presented TO Cap
tain Hyland.
What. Back again?" exclaimed the cap
tain.
Don't it look like it2" snarled Red
81 believe il does" continued the cap
tain. II suppose that you are going to deny
being implicated i'm that job at DR..
RhOdes's, are you not?'
You didn't hear me deny it, did your
well it would be like you to try to
make us believe you and the Senator were
innocent
Il didn't say was innocent, did II"
mo"
well. what else do you want me to say?''
"Oh, that's enough"
And the red-haired leader of South West
streets most nOtorius gang OF boy toughs
was taken away to Jail. The Jail door had
hardly slammed when pretty miss of six
teen summers, with a red Tam OShanter
perched jauntily on head of waving brown
hair, appeared in the turkeys office and
asked 10 see Mr.. Red Finley. Turnkey
Lowe observed that she carried bundle.
What's that?" asked the turnkey.
Coffee for Red, " she replied.
Turnkey Lowe opened the wicker door
and Red hurried from his cell to accept
pint bottle of hot coffee from his sweet
hearts hand. Then began a whispered
conversation between Red and the girl
that lasted over an hour.
That's Reds sweetheart" the police
men would whisper to each other as they
eyed the pretty miss. whose left arm rested
on the dollhouse door. Every now and
then a CHEEKY laugh would break from her
lips and the prisoner and his girl seemed to
be Oblivious of the fact that their trysting
place was prison door. 1t is believed that
the girl wants Red" to serve his sentence
reform and marry her.