LITTLE HONEST HENRY Arizona Republican Newspaper January 5, 1898 Little Honest Henry was captured again yesterday morning by Officer Molloy. Little Honest Henry is a diminutive colored person. The Christina name "Little Honest" was given him in the course of an argument in his behalf by J.L.B. Alexander once when he was defending him on a charge of stealing chickens or milking a cow in the night time. But whatever the charge, he was convicted as he is always is, for his reputation and the circumstances are always dead against him. The last time Little Honest Henry was taken up it was for what he described as rambling around in the night. The officer said he was accompanied on his ramble by a bundle of shingles, a dry goods box and other building materials which overtopped and surrounded Little Honest Henry so that when the officer saw the lumber moving down the alley he at first thought he was the victim of an optical illusion. It was little Honest Henry. At the trial the next day Little Honest Henry thought that his previous crimes of burglarizing cows in the first degree and stealing chickens should not be counted against him. He was cured of that. He had an idea that a jail sentence forever cured him of the offense for which it was imposed but did not prevent the development of new ones. He was let off with a $5 fine and a colored woman, proprietress of a cafe where Henry was employed as a dish washer became security. The next day Henry got to regarding the working out of that fine as payment for a dead horse. He told Mrs. Thomas and his face lighted up with joy, that the recorder said he would settle the matter for $2 if it could be settled at once. Mrs. Thomas gave him the money and Henry was seen no more until the gray dawn of yesterday. Office Molloy saw him in an alley. Henry offered in court the excuse that he been confined to his room by a protracted illness. He was fined $10 and furnished a bond. USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. submitted by burns@asu.edu