Show DEATH ENDS CONVICTS TERM J J Thompson After Serving Two Months of One Year Sentence for Burglary Died of Consumption at State Prison Death cut short J J Thompsons one year term In the penitentiary yesterday and brought to aa end the hapless existence ex-istence of an unfortunate Invalid whose 111 health was responsible for his presence pres-ence behind the bars The latter part of i June he was sent to tho State prison for burglary lIe wns then dying of consumption con-sumption and his condition was n pitiful piti-ful one S Althouch ho was treated as well as possible at the Slato prison the close confinement told upon him and his condition I I con-dition dally became more deplorable On Saturday last he had n hemorrhage and waa taken to tho prison hospital where medical aid waa given However the I 1 weakness Increased and more hemorrhages hemor-rhages followed until death came to his relief yesterday Thompson wan arrested by Mrs A L > I Johnson last June and at that time was so weak he could not break from her grasp lie had gone Into Mrs > John I sons homo on East Fifth South street and was making away with several rings when the Indy seized him He made no i effort to resist her hut stood trembling until Detectives Chnac and Glllenplo reached the house and piloted him to the city Jail There ho told a pathetic story 01 hIs motive for the theft Unable to work and having no money ho said that In desperation he tried burglary as a last resort Lie said ho had come from Pennsylvania and had bcei In good circumstances boforo his health failed him Ho was about 33 years of ago grnyhalrcd and smoothfaced I lIe was such a physical wreck at the lime of his arrest that his pholo and description wore not taken for the rogues gallery t 13 In customary Hell die Inn I In-n few days said an officer Its only a waste of tlmo to muG him The remains will be laid to rest Saturday Sat-urday In a grave at the bleak prison cemetery |