Jimmie Blythman

JIMMIE BLYTHMAN

Ann Arbor's Young Crook Again Arrested

STEALING OPERA TICKETS

Charged With Taking Fifty Tickets from Box Office

And Retailing Them to His Friends at Ten Cents Each. He Has Been in the Reform School and the House of Correction

Jimmie Blythman, the little thief, who has a long record of misdeeds to his credit, for the most of which he has escaped punishment, is again in the toils of justice. This time he is held for the larceny of 50 gallery tickets from the opera house last Saturday. He was arraigned before Justice Duffy Tuesday, plead not guilty and his trial was set down for Wednesday Jimmie usually pleads not guilty and usually it is a little difficult to prove much against him but suspicions.

The stolen tickets were in the box office and it is believed that he worked up the glass door a little ways and with a wire secured the tickets which were tied together. They were missed before the gallery tickets were put on sale and a corner of the remaining tickets were clipped off. Manager Chistensen took his stand at the gallery door and kept the boys who presented unclipped tickets together until he had 16 of them. He then sent for the police. The boys all claimed to have purchased the tickets of Blythman for 10 each. When arrested some more of the missing tickets were found by the officer.

On May 6, Jimmie was sentenced to 65 days in the Detroit house of correction for stealing a suit of clothes from a farmers' wagon. He is now about 17 years of age and his peculations have been going on for a series of years. He is now a confirmed law breaker who if taken at a younger age and sent to the reform school and kept them might have been made a useful citizen. He has done time in the reform school and has been arrested a number of times.