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From the Car%on Appeal.Wo nro indebted to .Mr. James Hume, well-known as it ilrtectiTe in the employ f Wells, Fargo Co’s Espnes and Banking Company, lor the facts npon which is based the following narration: On the 1 Hh of August 1871 J ha Burke, con victod of manslaughter n Esmeralda county trrivfl. as per senl^nco of Court,.1 the State prison and «n* irn»*d over to the l^ppiug of the War-* -the late Fr.uk Dcuvi-r. On tb»* 17tu i f ton succeeding mouth Burke with *lt; vlt; ml others escftp d from the Frisou; aud he was one of a pertw of six who killed a mail nd.r t etweeu Wellington's and Aurora. lie was captured with Tilt. Cookr-ll and re-turn-i to the prison October 2d. Then, on the 1st of March. 1872 tie and several others, being under indictment for prison breaking, were placed in the Oruinby county jail. As many ot our readers will remember, the whole batch : of them broke jail aud scattered. Burke 1 aud Clifford (who was lately pardoned out of the Pemtcntiury) were among the namber thus escaping. Whib* they w. re stilt at large, Burke and Clifford robbed the stage between Eureka and Miueral Hill, und wero urresitd, but be-tug l.hniitivd us convicts who had escaped from the prison upon whosi* beads was a rewurd, they were brought in here aud delivered up without hating been indicted for stud ruhbery. (It being more than two years since the said crime was committed, their ludict ibility uas expired by act of limituliou.) They w«-rw returned to the State Prisou on the lfith of September. 187*2 -Burk-* luting been sentenced to uuu year for piisou breaking and one year lor breuking jail. He served oai his entire term, less his credits, uud was discharged February 1. H7», Last .lane Burke and a man who called himself Willis, turn* d up iu the r-de ot stag I robbers in Beaver couuty, Utah. (Tbo htuge road telweeu 1'ioChe und Salt Like runs through that county. 1 They robbed the stage two days •• hand runuitig. Besides fobbing Wells, Fargo A Co., they robb.ul the U. S. mail. They were arrested anil lodged in the Bunver jail, from which they effected their escape. They were suo’u captured aud taken to the Utah penitentiary for s.ifo keeping. (All this time Burke gave his name us Barker They had been iu the prison n lilt la while when, with others, they managed to escape—tbia making no less than four escapes for Borne. In a few days, however, Burke was again in the hands of the officers of the law, was tried in the U. 8. District Court (meantime being identified by Mr. Humlt;*, who went tu Salt Luke to take n look at him), and rn'Utuuced to hard labor in prison for life—the .fudge designating the Michigan State Fnsiuu at Detroit as his place of confinement. Li* made a desperate effort to escape from the officers who conveyed him, but bo failed of success. When Burke committed his first crime, that of killing a man at Fine Drove, Esmeralda couuty, be was not at all idouufied with lh8 criminal class; aud much sympathy was expressed for him tber*\ us for a young man who had met with a great misfortune, and his pardon would rnoBt likely have been forthcoming in good time if be bad remained iu prison aud behaved himself. Ilis adventures make quite a roinauce aud entitled him to be classified with the Jack Sheppards and Claude Duvals of the crimioal calendar.oc.
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Pioche Daily Record
Pioche, Nevada, US
Fri, Oct 13, 1876
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