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“Released Convict Caught,” Daily British Whig (Kingston). July 19, 1911. Page 02. --- While Burglarizing a Store on Front Street, Belleville. --- When John Campeau was released from penitentiary at Portsmouth on Monday morning he never thought that he would be in the Belleville police cells twenty-four hours later. Yet he was, and may come back to the penitentiary, where he just completed three years for theft at Trenton. John immediately set out for Belleville, thinking that he could easily get a little capital with which to start life anew. He put a few drinks of Corby whiskey into himself and started out to examine the stores on Front street at ten o’clock in the evening, when all Belleville goes to bed. But he was seen by some small boys who informed the police. Campeau was arrested on suspicion. He was intoxicated and gave the police a good scrap before he could be taken to the station. The store of McIntosh Bros. had been entered and a small amount of money taken from the till. Campeau evidently tried to enter several stores, as there were evidences of it. In police court, John decided to be tried by a jury of his peers, and not by the magistrate. Accordingly he will remain in Belleville jail till September. He is well-known in Belleville, the police having had trouble with him since he was a lad. He is twenty-six years of age.