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An Old Offender

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

AN OLD OFFENDER.

Rafftree, the Bicycle Thief, Has Done Time.

Patrolman Isbell took a prisoner down to the Detroit house of correction yesterday. He called at police headquarters in Detroit and mentioned Willam Thompson alias Raftree in jail here on the charge of stealing a bicycle from Leon Shaw. On looking over the rogues gallery an excellent likeness of the man was found. Under the name of William Miller the man was sentenced from Detroit in May 1893 to five years in prison on the charge of stealing guns. He was arrested by Detective Donnelly, after having given the police much trouble by calling at private residences and informing the housewives that their husbands had sent him after their revolvers. The revolvers in his possession, he would sell them. On the back of the photograph was a number of aliases under which he had traveled, among others, Scott, Thompson and George Daily. It said also that he was about 45 years old, an enigneer by profession and that he had a broken nose. This answered he description of the man in the Ann Arbor jail. Thompson, as his name was given here, has been tor sometime the engineer in charge of the boat at Zueky Lake which has taken the resorters to their club houses. At Zukey Lake he went by the name of Raftree and is reported as somewhat resolute customer.