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ROARK’S ADVENTURESA “Formerly from Kansas'1 Man in the New York Pen-itentiary.In yesterday s dispatches was the statement that Michael Roark was tried at Utica, New York, for an express robbery and sent to Auburn penitentiary for twenty years. This chap is formerly from Kansas. Fifteen years ago he was in some way connected with the building of the Santa Fe, and had either a contract or was foreman for the contractor. He then became a buffalo hunter and had his headquarters around Dodge, and was the head of the gang that attempted the robbery of the train on the Santa Fe in 1878. and was captured shortly after in company with Dement who was killed in attempting to escape. Roark was tried for this train robbery and sent to the penitentiary at Leavenworth for ten years. A. II. Case was his attorney and he took the case to the supreme court, got it reversed and when it came time for a new trial. Dave Iludcbaugh. the witness who had turned state s evidence against him, had become a worse outlaw than lloark and could not be had. Roark was discharged, but was immediately re-arrested for participating in a train robbery at Winthrop, opposite Atchison, and was taken there, tried and sentenced to two years in the Missouri penitentiary which he served. We understand that Hon. J. G. Waters, of this city, prosecuted him in both cases, and it is a litttle out of the run of ordinary events for one lawyer to send one man to two different penitentiaries for two distinct train robberies. Roark then went up to Onoga, in Pottowallowic county, and there bucked the prohibitory lbw, and graduating there, after paying his line. lie then blossomed out into a stock dealer, and after having bought $16,000 worth of cattle at figures far above Kansas City prices, he ficd just as he had got his money at the stock yards in Kansas City, and while the owners were there waiting for him to come back with the money. lie is now in safe hands for a time and we may take one long breath, nc is a fine looking man, six feet high, with a voice like a woman, and is as mild a mannered man as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship. The moral of all this is, that in all Roark's enter prises of' pith and moment they have never paid him in money, pleasure or satisfaction a single sent on the dollar on the capital employed or the energy wasted in their accomplishment.—Topeka Daily Capital, Sunday.
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Dodge City Times
Dodge City, Kansas, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1887
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