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— - - ' ■ | « • Ft ■ « I • u i I,|Mp %, BIL1 II « ' ■naent. Ho said the could never get him when he had a fair start.Will He .Mako Good?And tin question new is. Will Old Bill Miner b* as good an his word? The strongest pris-m walls 1 n Canada have fulled t » h-dd him. He h.13 lau^h«d .a the J.nls in A rn«rka a ml has made prison wardens look foolish.Every time he has been seni up hehas left them all behind.New will he come through this last time? Win he foil every effort to 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 went through the crowd. A posse Is on his trull, but there Ls small chance of overtaking him, as the highway* man has succeeded wonderfully in covering up his tracks,That's Old Bill Miner.Many on His Track.But Bill Miner, for the first titnt in his life, has this problem staring him In the face:I hi* Southern Express Company Is on his track!Tulk ot The Hound of the Basker-vllle'/’ Even as that famous sleuth was a perpetual nemesis of evildoers, SO is the Southern Expr**** Company. lt;to where you will; seek the most secluded spot that this run tula rie sphere affords. and sometime or another one of those alert agents of that alert band will lay his hand upon your shoulder—it m« In years and years and \oitrs remo\ed, but sometime ItWill happeti, and sometime those fatal words will be w hlspered In your earsCome with me.The Southern Express Company,, event as old Hill Miner, will makegood Its threat.This company has offered a reward of $3u0 lor the recapture of Miner.Why? Because Miner held up and robbed u train on which was several thousands of that company s money. That's the answer. The don't likefor that til happen. It sets u had example. Somebody else might try it. True, somebody might bunch the job*hut there s no telling when a young Bill Miner • may crop out again.And so that's why old Bill is upagainst it. They are looking for himnow, and Just as sure as fate they'llget him. old I til i played his last card and Ids best one when he got 'sick and had himself transferred from the roads of Newton county to the prison farm at MHtodgeville. Theweight of his seventy-odd years willtell on him, it ml then—the Southern Express Company is after him. Don’tforget that.Bill Miner's Description,Here is an accurate description of Old Bilk as given out by the Souther n Express Company.He is sixty-nine years of age: looks to be about sixty. Has light chestnut hair, slate colored eyes, medium fair complexion, some freckles, weighs about 130 pounds, slender build, non© has a convex shape, 5 feet * b. inches tall. Has a female figure in tattoo; also a heart pierced by an arrow' in tattoo oti arms; also a small scalloped tattoo at the base of one of hl» thumbs; also a star in tattoo below the left knee. He has a small mole under his left eye; also a small mole on the left side of his nose; also a brown mole cm front of right shoulder. Sometimes wears moustache.Notify J, IS. Hockiiday, general manager, Southern Express Company. Atlanta, Ga.
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Mathews Journal
Mathews, Virginia, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1911
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