Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . CHAILLES MOllGAX. OLIVER CURTIS PERRY. KNIGHTS OF THE hOM). 259 He had arranged with confederates to crawl under the gateof the jail yard and open the bars of one of the windows witha spreader, and it is reported that this was done; but Iled-speth went astray in the darkness, and, when he found theright window, the jail guards were upon him before he couldsqueeze through. So he sullenly gave himself up and wastaken back to his cell, where he was strictly gua
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . CHAILLES MOllGAX. OLIVER CURTIS PERRY. KNIGHTS OF THE hOM). 259 He had arranged with confederates to crawl under the gateof the jail yard and open the bars of one of the windows witha spreader, and it is reported that this was done; but Iled-speth went astray in the darkness, and, when he found theright window, the jail guards were upon him before he couldsqueeze through. So he sullenly gave himself up and wastaken back to his cell, where he was strictly guarded until hewas tried and convicted of the robbery at Glendale, and sentto the state prison for twenty-five years. His brother-in-law,Sly, received a like sentence. A third member of the gangwas killed at Pleasanton, Kansas, shortly after the Glendalerobbery, in the attempt to rob a train with only a single assist-ant; so the Hedspeth gang is no longer to be dreaded. In the spring of 1893, a train on the M. & O. railroad washeld up by two train robbers at the first water tank north ofCairo, Illinois. This was the first perform
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