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Horrible History of a Convict. Columbus, O., Nov. 4.—James Brown, an insane federal prisoner, who has been confined in the penitentiary here for several years, was last night taken to Washington, where he will be placed in the national asy lum. Brown was a Portuguese sailor twen ty years ago, the name he now goes by be ing given him by his English shipmates. He killed two sailors at sea, sucked their blood, and hid the bodies away in the hold. His motive was only an insane craving for blood. He was first put in the Massachu setts state prison, and there he killed a keeper. Recently he tried to kill a guard here by stabbing him with a pitchfork.
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Bloomington Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 04, 1892
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