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Fred Ottley -newspaper article

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Fred Ottley -newspaper article

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 9:51AM GMT
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Surnames: Ottley
I found this in a newspaper article:
The Lake County Star
Crown Point, Indiana
Sept 27, 1895 (Friday morning)
"Nipped in the Bud"
Sometime ago Fred Ottley a young man was placed in jail here for burglary at Whiting, and it was soon found that he was a desperate character. He was wanted at Cedar Rapids, Iowa for a greater crime and while the authorities in Iowa were getting requisition papers old man Ottley turned up here and tried to get the boy's bail lowered so that he could bail him and let him skip. When he found that would not work, he began smuggling saws, files and other tools into jail to the boy and it was found out just in time by Sheriff Hayes. Considerable sawing had been done and the old man had made two trips to Chicago for better saws. About the time the Marshall of Cedar Rapids came with requisition papers and took the young man, Hayes arrested the old man for putting the tools in the jail and he is now holdint down the boy's job, . . .
(my copy from the microfilm doesn't show the rest, but you can get it from the Crown Point library)

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