Our Convict Visitors

Our Convict Visitors

Two of Them Steal Clothing and Whiskey.

They Escaped Prison

And Outfitted in Ann Arbor Friday.

They Took the Train West Before Their Misdeeds Here Were Discerned - They Are Nervy Desperate Men.

Two escaped convicts visited Ann Arbor Thursday night and left Friday shortly after noon by the freight train route taking all the plunder they could collect without exciting too much suspicion from two hotels.

The fugitives were Thomas O'Keefe sent from Grand Rapids to the Detroit house of correction in March, 1897, for four years and a half, and Raymond Morgan, sent from Milwaukee, in the same month for two and a half years. Both had been sentenced in federal courts for robbing post offices. They escaped from the Detroit house of correction at about 7 o'clock Thursday night. At the time they were in the hospital. By tearing their beds apart they reached the ceiling 12 feet above, breaking through the lathe and plaster, dropping the debris on their bedding and reached the roof through a scuttle and with a rope made from strips of blankets lowered themselves into a big tree. It was the first prison escape from Capt. Joe Nicholson since 1878. They were seen in prison garb by some boys a mile away from the prison.

They arrived in this city shortly after 9 o'clock the same evening having in some way secured a change of clothing and took a room at the Exchange hotel, on the corner of State and Fuller sts. and remained over night. After they left yesterday morning three bottles of whiskey and four boxes of cigars were missing, but the loss was not discovered until they had taken French leave of the city. Between 10 and 11 a.m. Friday they called at the St. James hotel and registered as James Morgan and James Millen, both of Hamilton, Ohio. They stated that they had been out most of the night and wished a room to lie down. They appeared like ordinary travelers and were assigned a room. At 12:05 p.m. they came down to the office, settled and passed out. In the meantime they had put in their time to advantage gathering suits of clothing, etc., in the hotel to the value of about $100 and making a bundle, they dropped it out of the window into the yard. After leaving the hotel they went around through Brenner's building, picked up the bundle and left down Ashley st. Shortly afterwards they were seen to board a west bound fright train. They tried for one train and the older convict fell. They took the next one which came along shortly afterwards. It is to be hoped that they may be caught before they have a chance to commit many more depredations

Cars to Run Every 15 Minutes.

The Detroit Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor railway company has purchased several trailers to be used on account of their increased passenger traffic. It is however quite unlikely that they will be used as trailers on account of the impractibility, but will be fitted

Half Sick Half Well

Many Persons have their good day and their bad day. Others are about half sick all the time. They have headache, backache, and are restless and nervous. Food does not taste good, and the digestion is poor; the skin is dry and sallow and disfigured with pimples or eruptions; sleep brings no rest and work is a burden.

What is the cause of all this?

Impure blood.

And the remedy?

Ayer's Sarsparilla

It clears out the channels through which poisons are carried from the body. When all impurities are removed from the blood nature takes right hold and completes the cure. 

If there is constipation, take Ayer's Pills. They awaken the drowsy action of the liver; they cure biliousness.

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Address, Dr. J.C. Ayer, Lowell, Mass.