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FAMOUS BANDITMAKES ESCAPEATIJlNTA, GA.—Special.—The Con-% an prints the following. atch 'Old BUI' Miner!Straight from the prison farm at Mil ledge vtlie. that message. brief but (ompnhonslve, hAS hr on flashed around the world.. And when the announcement was 1 made that Old Bill Minor had oncemore shaken behind him the dust of :« prison waits, hum tin blood hounds In •- ' vi-ry «, ction of the country, from thefar Canadian border down through tin* Suiithwf «t, arul i-veii into Mexico, were set on hie trail.For Kill Miner is a wanted man. They want- -I him in Canada when Kill got twenty years in the Georgia pen for bidding up a fiist Southern piiSHonger train near Gainesville a lew months ago. They wanted him first for holding up lt;t passenger train on the Canadian Pacific Itallroad. and they wanted him again for breaking jail after he had been sentenced to a number of years lu the penitentiaryat New Westminister, IS. C.But lhat H not all, ‘ cf VVmilid for llohinp-.r I', ill Miner is want'd in several I parts of Canada and similar exploits. And also lie is wanted In the far Northwest of this (air land for having pushed his handy gun |q the face of some man or men who had the coin.Kill Miner has always been a man who leaned toward the spectacular.Soiti'diody asked lull one uu if he ever eracked a safe,Mrutttr.u me?' Inquired BUI In an injur d i*m,. Not much; f don t1.1*0 \ that ki-,*! f.i w • * r k. It's me f*»r(he straight came of flashing the forty-1 Mir and c iting it if you can. None of this m-el. work fur me.When Kill was caught red-hand*-Iill in !.•'*: . St : pad,v f,.r holding up aSouthern trai.i mar GumesvlUe hogave this excuse:Well, 1 had with me :i couple **fcubs; they didn't km w the game.They Kitve in.* aw a \ They got th*mom i ml 1 g.»t t ie hook. The/welched. Leave no* alone, and mm it, nor any m t of men, can put their hands on me. Kilt Miner knows in* game, and h** will i .-v.-r be taken, Send me to Jail i! yu wan I to. judge;but i woti t skip riivj, have neverbuilt prison walls that could hold me, uml they have never yet found thorn an who could take me when I getout.**Old niH qualified that last statement. Me said they could never get him when he had a fair start,Will lie Make Good?Ami the question now is. Will Old Bill .Miner be as good as his word? The strongest prison walls in Canadahave failed t * h dd him. He h.ialaughed ,a the Jails In America and has made prison wardens look foolltdi. Every time he htb been “seiu up hohas left them all behind.Now will he come through !hi» last time? Win he foil every effort tu recapture and will the world be startled again some morning with this announcement In the papers:The fast passenger train on the B. X, was held up and robbed last night a few miles north of Squeedunk, A lone bandit turned a red light on and when the train slowed down hower-t through the crowd. A posse Is on his truli, but there Is small chance of overtaking him, as the highwayman has succeeded wonderfully in covering up his tracks*That’s Old Bill Miner.Many on lib* Track,
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Mathews Journal
Mathews, Virginia, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1911
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