Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . EDWARD C. SMITH. WILLIAM UNDER COVER OF NIGHT. m of a moment. He was free from his cell but still shut up inthe main cell room. He did not try the lock on the roomdoor, but put a table under the narrow window, and, by usinghis really wonderful strength, forced off the iron grating. Itwas astonishing that a man of his bulk could squeeze througha passage so small, but he succeeded in crawling through andscaling the iron fence. For nearly a month he e
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . EDWARD C. SMITH. WILLIAM UNDER COVER OF NIGHT. m of a moment. He was free from his cell but still shut up inthe main cell room. He did not try the lock on the roomdoor, but put a table under the narrow window, and, by usinghis really wonderful strength, forced off the iron grating. Itwas astonishing that a man of his bulk could squeeze througha passage so small, but he succeeded in crawling through andscaling the iron fence. For nearly a month he enjoyed hisliberty, but he was recaptured in July by Boston officers inPortland, Maine, and sentenced to state prison, upon a seriesof convictions, for an aggregate term of eleven years. There could be no mistaking of the character of such bur-glars as Evans, Hurley and Smith. All three bear the stampof the hardened criminal so plainly on their faces, that anymasquerade on their part as respectable citizens would notimpose on the most verdant countrymen. Even a childwho met one of them in a lonely lane would scamper off withtremblin
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