For Robbing His Own Father

For Robbing His Own Father

Dexter Boy is Now in Jail Under that Charge.

$29 Was the Sum Taken

When Arrested This Morning He was Drunk and but $1.50 Remained.

John Sackett, a young man 22 years of age and living in Dexter, is in jail on a charge of larceny from his own father who is a hard working carpenter.

The story that the father told Justice Doty Friday, and which formed the basis of the warrant, was as follows. "I went home last evening, and give my wife $29 in money, she counted it out while were at the supper table, and then got up and put it in a tureen. The boy saw where it was placed and inside of fifteen minutes he probably got a hold of it. He went down town and then made a bluff of coming home and going to bed. He just laid down on the outside, and got out of the house some way. We did not seen him go. He is all right and a good hard worker, except when he gets to drinking, and then he goes bad.

When young Sackett was arrested this morning by Marshel Gerstner, he was pretty drunk, and could not be brought before the Justice today. He was searched at the jail but only $1.50 remained out of $29, if he did not take the amount. From his appearance this morning he had evidently had a right, royal night of it.