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County Attorney T. O. Streiasguth has received a communication from the county attorney at Oklahoma City,Okla., in which he is informed that Charles Murphy, pickpocket, has pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny and has been sentenced to serve a term of two years at the State Penitentiary at McAllister, Okla.
Murphy will be remembered here as being arrested last fall at the County Fair grounds on a charge of pickpocketing. He was released on $2,000 bail the date for his trial was set. When he failed to appear in court his bond was forfeited and the two men from Minneapolis who went his bond are being sued by the county in a separate action to recover.
Notorious Character
After investigation had been made it was learned that Murphy had several aliases under which he traveled and had a checkered career. Leaving this state he went to Missouri and was arrested in Kansas City for pick pocketing. He gave a bail in this instance and again failed to appear at the time his hearing was to be called in court. Officials were notified all over the country and when he was apprehended on a similar charge in Oklahoma City he was held without bail. At this time he pleaded guilty to his charge and will now serve two years for his crime.
Can Be Brought Back Here
Before the time of expiration of his sentence officials at the penitentiary will inform the County Attorney of Brown County of the date of his release in ample time so as to afford the authorities from this city to make a trip to McAllister and bring Murphy back to this state to answer the charge filed against him in this county, providing the local authorities want to bring him back. The county attorney and the sheriff made one trip to Kansas City expecting to bring Murphy back with him but he had been released on bail and the sheriff made a second trip to that city only to find when he arrived there that Murphy's case had been postponed again. Because he had forfeited his bail twice before the officials at Oklahoma City did not give him another chance for freedom and now he will serve his time out.
New Ulm Review,
May 13, 1925