The Pontiac Gazette •
April 19, 1867
Larceny - Pontiac
Four men were arrested in this city on Tuesday morning and brought to Justice Le Roy, charged with forcibly taking $1.70 from a boy at the depot, during the previous evening. From evidence given, it appears that the men and boy who belong to a wood train, ofthe Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, had been in Detroit in the afternoon and evening previous, on a spree, they had spent all of their money and of course on their arrival in this city were unable to procure any of the arden. The boy having some money left, they called him to come, which he refused to do. Two of them named, O'Brien and Kelly, then seized him, one holding him whole the other took the money from his pocket, the other two men looking on. O'Brien and Kelly were convicted and fined $10 each, and in default, thereof, were sentenced in jail 1ten days each. The other to were discharged.