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An Oalltw and Desi*ersdo*-«WellKnown in Kauiai and Mlaaourl.Now that all is over in the case of Boark tho express robber* says the Ulioa Observer, some facta in his life way be made public. On tho the sixth day of March, 1879, in Butler county, Kansas, Michael Koaxk waa convicted of robbery in the the first degree* committed on one Andrew Kingskadft. Ho was sentenced to be confined in the State Penitentiary at Kat s is for a period of^ tenyears, and in addition to pay the costs of prosecution* which wt re taxed at $1,158.16. On this oocasiob he robbed Kingkade, who was .agent of Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company, of $3,000. Daoember 16, 1879, the Supreme Court of Kansas granted a new trial on some technical ground, but for some reason the seoond trifel waa never had. Gecrgo Goodell, deputy sheriff of Lsavenworih, Kan Baasays:“I know Michael Bowk. I have known him slnoe 1878. I waa encaged in the capture for reward of Michael Boark, Bill Tills-man, Dan Dement* Dave Budebaugh and others wanted for express train robbery at or near Kinsley Station, Edwardi county, Kansas, in the year 1878. In company with Bait Masterson I was boating for the Kinsley gicg down on the Canadian Biver in the Pan ' Handle of Texas, and then and there we captured Dave Bude-bangh, Mtko Boark, Bill Tillsman andBill Welsh, while they were eating break-TusooaL’*at about forty miles below Tusoosa* Texas. Phey ouno out of the care in which they luartored. After capture we took them to Dodge City and put them fn jail theio. this is the only time X wis ever after Boark*hough I have long heard of him as an out-aw and desperado and an associate of other tutlawa and dwpsradoea. X have this day een shown photcgrapns which I recognize t* being good and true pictures of Mike Icarkor ‘BigMike.*”Boark’d record in Miesoorl was even rorae than in Kansas, is will be seen by he following extracts from affidavits madejy cffioia^i of that Stale and now in poasee-itniIon of the Oneida county authorities. 01 Ter U. Spencer,in 1880 Prosecuting Attor-ley for the Slate of Miti0uri,in his affidavittaya :“M.ke O’Konrko was indicted by the Grand Jury of Buchannan connty, Missouri in November, 1880, for the crime of robbery, it being alleged, that he and three ethers robbed the exp /ft* company of over $5,000, near Wmthxop, Ho., a small town on the oast and opposite aide of the river from Atchison, Kansas. The charge in the indictment was robbery, the lowed punishment for whiob is ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.I waa prosecuting attorney for the state at ihe time. When the ease was exiled for trial O’Boturke was permitted to plead guilty to the crime of grand Uroeny, vlx * to the ttcskling of the alleged amount cf money from the express company eomttime prior to November, 1880, as charged In the indict-meet, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years, the loweat penalty under the law. Boark mad^ his eseipe from the penitentiary.J.* A. Raynor, agent for the United States Express Co. at St. Joseph, Mb. faring I860, certified that he was present at the trial of Michael Roirke for tbs robbery of the ixprtss company ^ messenger, Frank S. Baxter* at or sear Wlntbrop Buohanan county, Mo.* while esronta from Kanns City to St. Joseph, on tha K. 0. BL J. A 11 O. B. railway. He recognixxd the photograph taken in Utica as that of Bcarke. He also certified to the general reputation of Boarke is that of an outlaw and deepsrado.
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Oswego Daily Palladium
Oswego, New York, US
Tue, Jun 28, 1887
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