List of Criminals Cleaned-Out, They're Headed for Prison

Iowa, 1903

EXODUS OF BAD CHARACTERS FROM DAVENPORT

Four Departed Yesterday and More Go Today — Pope Starts Sentence.

There was an exodus of bad characters from Davenport yesterday and while it was not planned or voluntary on the part of the exiles, yet it will probably not hurt the city much. Sheriff McArthur left yesterday morning for Fort Madison taking with him James Pope, sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of rape committed on his 13-year-old daughter; and Fred Gross sentenced to two and one-half years at hard labor for receiving stolen property, he being implicated in the Gross case. W. D. Petersen accompanied the sheriff on the trip and they expect to return today.

Deputy Sheriff Eggers left yesterday morning for Anamosa, where he takes Daisy Lister and Gertie McDonald for terms of five years each in the woman's ward of the penitentiary. The women were convicted of robbery from Simon Myerson, a rag buyer. The Lister woman, on account of extenuating circumstances and a probable evidence that she was of better former character than her co-partner, was promised the assistance of the judge and county attorney if she showed at the end of year's time that her behavior at the penitentiary had been good, in securing parole.

This cleans out the list of criminals sentenced regularly during the last term of court. Young Frank Boswell, who made such an astonishing confession of the crimes that he had been guilty of, will be taken to Eldora either today or tomorrow to enter upon the service of his sentence in the state industrial school for boys situated there.

—Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, Iowa, March 4, 1903, page 7.