The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-12-09
T0BE DENNIS Is
AGAIN in The TOLLS
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It'll and Broadway and began rails
ng a disturbance. officer Tom Pot
,er had TO make him leave and the
oy said he was going home to JEFF
fcrson and Sixth streets. This was
he last heard of him until this morn
ng when the police received a tip
from his father that the boy had
hrou ght some meat home. There was
another report from the Biederman
grocery company that its branch
store at 18th and jefferson streets
! had been broken INTO and a lot of ba
con taken Entrance was effected by
cutting the screen and raising the
window Che meat being secured by
means oi hook of some kind.
Patrol Driver John Austin was
sent To Dennis house and causht
aim asleep ON e pallet on the hoor
With the bacon stacked near him by
a window. Mr.. Dudley \. Meacham,
of The Sun. who was passing by, aid
"a Omcer Austin in making the ar
est.
When the boy was brought to the
hall the blood stains on his shirt
we're discovered and an investigation
of the Lack cutting, connected the
wo cases. The Lack stable is locat-
"a in the rear of his lot running
along 18th street and is within few
hundred feet of the grocery store.
The police are certain that Dennis
first entered the stable and cut the
horse and then jumped the fence.
cut the screen and secured the bacon.
Mr.. Lack was indignant this morn
ing when he found who cut his pony,
and stated that he would prosecute
the boy to the fullest extent of the
law.
Dennis has been source of trou-
BILE to the police here for several
years. but it is no fault of the police.
They have arrested him time and
again, only to have him turned loose
in circuit court because of his men
tai condition. He was once in the
Feeble Minded Institute at Frank
fort, it is claimed. His own father.
being afraid the boy will murder
him, has several times attempted to
have him put where he will do no
harm. The boy seems to have
spells" and when he has them is as
likely to. murder a human being. as
to slash and cut poor inoffensive,
! helpless horse. 900 .-.,.....-
Last summer he several times
came near breaking up the shows at
the park. and once had to be
knocked cold" by a motorman with
a switch key Every effort will now
be made to send him to the peniten-
tiary.
Dennis this morning at the jail de
MED to a reporter that he either cut
the horse or broke into the grocery.
He said he found the bacon, and
that the blood on his shirt came from
the changing boss hitting him in
the mouth because he wouldn't go
into a cell.
The Board of Managers of the
Home of the Friendless is very much
annoyed by some woman. purport-
ing to represent the institution, go
ing around the city selling a book
for sc and stating the proceeds are
to go for dinner the Home will give
shortly. The board takes this meth
cd of notifying the public that the
solicitation is unauthorized.
The police have positive evidence
against Dennis. however. Chief Col
Inns went to the Dennis home this
morning after the arrest and found
the knife with which the horse was
cut. It is a two bladed knife with a
long sharp blade, and It had blood
and horse hair still on il. II will be
offered in evidence against Dennis.