Twenty years of hard labor in the Chester penitentiary for the theft of eighteen chickens was the unusual punishment meted out by a jury in the Mattoon circuit court to Ora Brady, alias Blondin, a former resident of Iroquois County and an all around criminal.
    The sentence is unusual because of its severity and also because the prosecution against Brady is the first instance under the “habitual criminal act” which makes it possible to inflict such dire punishment on indictments of burglary and larceny.
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