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Train robber Holliday admits loot stash after Chicago sentence
Herber F. Holliday of Kansas City, among six confessed participants in the Rondout Illinois $2,000,000 train holdup, told postal inspectors he had more than $100,000 of the loot hidden. He faces 25 years in prison. companions received varied sentences. Jurors shipped nine other prisoners with deputy marshals as Holliday and co-defendants began serving terms. The court ordered concurrent sentences totaling 1 1/2 to 4 years for some, while Wylie Newton was brought in on a stretcher for a 12 year term.
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Chicago
Herber F. Holliday
Kansas City
Rondout
Ill
Adam C. Cliffe
Leavenworth
U. S
Willis
Wylie Newton
Joseph Newton
Jesse
Holliday
Fahy
Murray