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Marley - jailed

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 29 May 1896 p 6

Plumps Marley is in jail again with the certainty of another term in the penitentiary staring him in the face and bringing the tears of a belated repentance to his fine brown eyes. Some days ago Melville Edward a young shop keeper at Fredericksburg rode to Crawfordsville on his new bicycle and left the same in the feed yard near the Brown & Watkins mill while he transacted some business. When he returned the wheel was gone. It was a Queen City wheel number 4359 and had been sold to him by Zach Mahorney & Sons. The police began an investigation and Tuesday located the wheel in an empty stall at the fair grounds.  Plumps Marley was the possessor of it and was clapped in jail without ceremony. He at first claimed the bicycle had been sold him by another party but soon withdrew this statement. Information has been filed against him in the circuit court and he will doubtless enter a plea of guilty.

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