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Old 10-30-2015, 11:29 AM
 
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Chicago Tribune March 23, 1949

QUIZ ARSONIST AFTER FLAMING DEATH OF HIS WIFE
Farmington,Missouri Mar.22----A convicted arsonist who has had many fires and many wives in his life was held in jail here today while authorities investigated the flaming death of his last mate,a widow he allegedly met through a lonely hearts club. William C Mahurin,53,said the victim,Mrs.Charlotte Fisk Mahurin,46,was his fifth wife but authorities expressed belief she was number eight. The bride died last Thursday,the day after the couple moved from St.Louis to an 80 acre farm near here which they had just purchased,supposedly with the money the widow received from the sale of her St.Louis home. The morning after the couple's arrival at the farm, neighbors heard Mahurin shouting. They ran to his aid and found Mrs.Mahurin's burned body lying in the yard. Mahurin said he was at the barn milking when he heard his wife scream. He said he ran to the house and discovered a kitchen stove had exploded and set his wife's dress on fire. He then wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to the yard. Although Mahurin insisted his wife's death was caused only by the burns,contents of her stomach are being studied in two laboratories. Delving into Mahurin's past,police found a background of numerous fires and suspicions concerning the death of one of his previous wives. They learned he was convicted of arson in Dent County,Mo.,and sentenced to the state penitentiary in 1935. It was on this point that he was held,Prosecuting Attorney B.C Tomlinson charging him with perjury when he testified at an inquest Friday that he had no criminal record other than a couple of misdemeanors. Mahurin divorced his first wife in 1937 after he was released from prison. She was the former Sylvia Sullivan,to whom he was married in 1915. His next wife was the former Katherine Boilet,who died in 1940,supposedly of heart disease. Suspicions of her relatives prompted authorities to exhume her body but an autopsy did not disclose any criminal action in her death. Wife #3 was Mrs.Irene Huskey Mahurin who was married to him in 1943 and divorced the following year. His next wife,the former Elaine Harriman,was burned in the destruction of a church Mahurin was accused of firing. She was a caretaker of the Assembly Of God church in Jennings,suburb of St.Louis,and had sleeping quarters there. The church burned in April 1946 while Mrs.Mahurin was asleep in the building. She was burned but not seriously. Her husband was arrested on a charge of arson after she reported seeing him in the church a short time before the fire broke out. The charge was dropped,however,when she declined to testify against him. She subsequently divorced him. Mahurin and widow Fisk were married in Arkansas last December 21. Her husband,Willard A Fisk,had operated a confectionary in St.Louis before his death. Although Mahurin contended he had known both Mrs.Fisk and her husband when they operated the St.Louis store,two friends of the widow asserted she and Mahurin met through a St.Louis lonely hearts club. One of the friends,George Wright,of St.Louis,said the Fisks' friends had not seen much of the widow since her marriage. After the church fire,Mahurin's first wife told authorities that Mahurin had set another fire 20 years ago. She said he fired their farm in Crawford County in 1928 to collect $2,000 insurance. He then bought a larger farm,rented it out,had trouble with the tenant,and the tenant's home mysteriously burned.
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Old 10-30-2015, 07:18 PM
 
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Chicago Tribune March 10, 1894

FIND TWO FIRE BRICK PETARDS.
DISCOVERY MADE IN SEARCHING THE HOUSE OF POSTOFFICE ROBBERS.

St.Louis,Mo., Mar.9---Detectives Badger and Flynn made a peculiar discovery while searching the residence two days ago of Herman and Otto Sasse,the brothers,who with Jim French,the alleged firebug,are now in custody charged with looting the post office at De Soto,Mo. The two officers,aided by Inspector Paul Williams of the United States Government Service,had gone through the upper part of the house and had found a lot of stamps and other things connected with the robbery at De Soto and went into the cellar to continue their investigation. Detective Badger found two bricks cemented together with a hole bored through the cement. Breaking them open he found the inner side of each brick had been chiseled out and the space filled with gunpowder. Jim French,one of the three prisoners has been in jail two or three times for arson. It is not known how this dangerous article got into the cellar of the Sasses,where Jim French is quite popular,and the officers are not satisfied as yet as to whether it was a trap set for some person in the building or not.


Chicago Tribune January 30, 1900

SHOT BY A TRAIN ROBBER

Holden,Mo., Jan.29.---John Jackson,a detective for the Missouri,Kansas and Texas railway from Sedalia,was shot through the head and fatally wounded by an unknown man here early this morning. Yesterday,Superintendent D.Hardy of the Missouri Pacific railway learned that an attempt would be made to rob the express car on the east-bound Missouri Pacific train no.8 due here at 3:08 am. for St.Louis. A posse was organized in Sedalia and left here on a special train at 8:30 o'clock last night for Warrensburg where the sheriff and special policemen were taken aboard. Superintendent Hardy's information was that the holdup was to take place near Doran,a small station near Holden. When the train reached Holden the detectives were informed that the suspected men were at a resort,and it was to arrest them then,as it was believed enough evidence had been secured to bring about their conviction. Jackson entered the house,one of the men fired and a ball passed through Jackson's head. The bandits escaped. Later one of them,badly wounded,was captured. Jackson,who was taken to the hospital at Sedalia,cannot recover. The arrested robber said his name was Shores and confessed to numerous robberies. He admitted having held up the Missouri Pacific at Independence a few nights ago and of having robbed the Pittsfield post office last Friday night. It is believed Shores and the man who shot Jackson and escaped held up a Missouri Pacific passenger train west of Kansas City on Jan.9,robbing the sleeping car passengers. Bloodhounds have been sent for to trace the escaped robbers. A woman tipped off the planned robbery to the officials at Sedalia. The plan was for the two men to board either train no.8 or no.10 eastbound at Holden and ride to Centerview eight miles west where the engine was to be detached,after which the robbers were to hold up the express messenger and passengers. Shores was released last May from the Missouri Penitentiary. The robber who escaped and who shot Detective Jackson is said to be named Pickering. So far,he had not been captured. Two holdup men are under arrest,they are brothers named Sneed.
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Old 10-30-2015, 11:21 PM
 
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Chicago Tribune November 26, 1906

BOY TRAIN ROBBER TAKEN IN THE ACT
LONE BANDIT ROBS FIFTEEN PASSENGERS,OFFICERS GRAB HIM

Kansas City,Mo., Nov.26---A lone robber,masked and armed,robbed fifteen passengers on the eastbound Chicago and Alton train no.24 near Glasgow,Mo.,after midnight this morning. He was arrested before he could leave the train and was taken to Glasgow and placed in jail. The train is known as the "Early Bird." It left Kansas City at 9 o'clock Sunday night and was due at Slater at 12:27 Monday morning. At Slater,the robber wearing a mask over his eyes boarded the rear car as the train was pulling out. After the train had gained speed,the man,with revolver in hand entered the car and began a systematic robbery of the passengers. Fifteen of the passengers were made to hand over their money. As the train passed through Glasgow,at which point it does not stop,the man was seen at work by the station agent,who wired the chief dispatcher of the fact. Armstrong,the next station east of Glasgow,was notified and officers were at the station there to meet the train as it pulled in. When the train stopped at Armstrong on orders and the officers boarded it they caught the robber red handed. He was taken without serious difficulty and upon instructions from the Kansas City office was taken back to Glasgow and placed in jail. Tonight's robbery is almost an exact duplicate of one committed on the same line on Nov.9,when a lone masked robber boarded the rear sleeper on an eastbound Chicago,Rock Island and Pacific Overland train which runs on the Alton tracks,and at the point of two revolvers,forced the Pullman conductor,porter and a brakeman to proceed ahead of him and awaken the passengers while he robbed them. On that occasion the robber passed the women by and succeeded in getting but $9 from the male passengers. That robber escaped but his description matches the boy who was caught tonight. Officers believe it's the same guy.


Chicago Tribune January 22, 1910

ROB TRAIN,FLEE ON ENGINE

St.Louis,Mo., Jan. 22---Four masked men last night at Eureka,thirty miles from this city,held up and robbed Missouri Pacific train no.8 due in St.Louis from Kansas City at 10:40 pm. With a red lantern the bandits stopped the train and pointed revolvers at the engineer and fireman. The baggage car,mail and express cars were detached from the train,and with the robbers in the cab,the engineer was compelled to proceed toward St.Louis. The passengers were not molested. The missing cars and engine at midnight were somewhere on the 30 miles of track and a posse of deputy sheriffs and railroad detectives was scouring the district. The safe from the express car is supposed to have contained several thousand dollars. It is believed the safe was blown open in some desolate spot and that the robbers fled. Missouri Pacific officials declared it was impossible to determine how much there was in the safe. No word had been heard from the missing cars or the engineer and fireman two hours after the holdup. The district in which the holdup occurred is sparsely settled and the news of the robbery did not reach St.Louis until nearly midnight. Conductor E.H Butts climbed off the train when it stopped to see what was the trouble and the robbers fired a fusillade of shots at him. After the engine disappeared Butts walked back to a farmer's house near Eureka and telephoned St.Louis.
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February 7, 1896
Savannah,Missouri
William Loughridge and James "Red" O'Brien rob the State Bank in Savannah.



Los Angeles Herald April 9, 1908

JUDGE ROBBED AND MURDERED
Springfield,Mo.,---Judge James A Frink,an attorney and past Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Missouri was shot through the temple and mortally wounded here at midnight last night. Police found him lying on the street corner after the shooting. An empty purse which had contained $400 was found near the body.



Captain Lewis Whisler 1881-1918
Kansas
An army captain robs the bank at a military base of over $60,000 then goes berserk and kills 4 people in the bank with an axe and later shoots himself with a rifle.

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Chicago Tribune November 12, 1898

KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI BANK ROBBED
BURGLARS OPEN A SUPPOSED BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE AND CARRY OFF LARGE SUM OF MONEY
Kirksville,Mo., Nov.11---One of the boldest and most successful burglaries in the history of the state occurred at the Savings Bank here between midnight and 3 am. The large vault door was found unlocked and open,the safe was found turned on it's side and silver dollars were scattered around. An investigation disclosed the fact that $15,000 in government bonds,the property of the president,Samuel Reed,and nearly $8,000 in gold and greenbacks had been taken. The exact amount of currency cannot be given yet. The Kirksville Savings Bank is one of the oldest and most solid institutions in the country. It is capitalized at $50,000 and did a good business. R.M Ringo,an old experienced banker is cashier and Fred Wilson is assistant. Burglar insurance will nearly cover the loss,lacking a thousand dollars or two. The bank will continue to do business without interruption. The directors have offered a $1,000 reward. Every indication points to the fact that the work was done by experienced city cracksmen.
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San Francisco Call January 22, 1902

PARDONS A CONVICT TO HAVE HIM HANGED

Jefferson City,Mo., Jan. 21---J.L Craft was hanged in the County Jail here today for the murder of Henry Spieker,a member of a posse that tried to arrest him after he had escaped from the State Prison on May 9,1899. Craft was sent to the Missouri Penitentiary from Lawrence County in 1896 for train robbery. Yesterday Governor Dockery pardoned Craft of his prison sentence in order that he might be hanged.



San Francisco Call November 13, 1897

ROBBERS DISGUISED AS WOMEN
FIVE MASKED BANDITS HOLD UP THE ST.LOUIS FAST MAIL TRAIN
BOLD WORK FAILS TO SECURE BOOTY

Kansas City,Mo., Nov.12---The Missouri Pacific passenger train,known as the St.Louis Fast Mail,and which leaves Kansas City at 9 pm was held up by five masked robbers at 9:30 o'clock tonight at the Chicago and Alton crossing just east of Independence,Mo.,and less than a mile from the famous Blue Cut in which several train robberies have occurred. Two of the robbers were disguised as women,and when the engineer saw them swinging a lantern across the track,an apparent signal of danger,he did not hesitate to stop. The engine's crew were immediately covered with revolvers. Conductor Dennis O'Brian and Brakeman Michael stepped off to see what was the matter and were received by a volley of bullets,which caused the greatest confusion in the passenger coaches. The conductor and brakeman were compelled to cut the express and baggage cars from the rest of the train,and the engineer and fireman were made to get down from their cab. The robbers quickly jumped aboard and took the engine and express car about two miles further east where they stopped and compelled Express Messenger Williams to open his car. He offered no resistance ,as he carried no treasure. The robbers evidently intended to stop the St.Louis Limited night express,which leaves Kansas City at a late hour,and were greatly surprised upon discovering that the cars which they had captured contained nothing of value. In their rage they pounced upon the express messenger and went through his pockets,but $2.85 is all they secured. After this they quickly left the train and disappeared in the darkness. After a delay of over an hour the train was put together again and started on it's journey. The County Marshal and his men were at the scene of the robbery very soon afterward,but there is every probability the robbers were safely in Independence or Kansas City before any effort was made to capture them. With the first intimation that the train was in the hands of road agents consternation seized the passengers in the rear coaches. There was not a man or woman on the train who had not heard of Missouri train robberies,it seemed,and as soon as the first shot was fired half a dozen people in every car yelled "train robbers." Some of the women began to scream,and watches and pocketbooks were tucked under seats,thrown into water-coolers and hidden in every conceivable place. After the engine and express had been taken away the passengers did not dare to leave the coaches for some time. When they did conclude that there was no danger of being shot they got off the train and some of them went back to Independence. Most of them waited however,until the engine had been hunted up and went on with the train. All reports agree that the robbers were deliberate in their movements,and they were no new hands at the business. Several of them were armed with Winchesters. Three other train robberies have occurred in the vicinity in the last 13 months. The first robbery occurred on the Chicago and Alton at Blue Cut in October 1896. The robbers at that time got very little. Just two months later another train was held up at the same point,the bandits securing about $23,000. About six weeks ago the Chicago and Alton was again a sufferer,one of it's express trains falling into the hands of robbers. The outlaws,however,secured nothing,owing to the failure of their dynamite to explode,after which they were afraid to return to the express car. The general opinion is that all these latter robberies have been committed by parties closely connected,but the county authorities have so far been unable to bring any of the outlaws to justice. The theory of the county officers is that the gang has it's headquarters in the "Cracker Neck" district just east of Independence.
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Old 11-01-2015, 01:46 PM
 
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San Francisco Call August 7, 1902

OUTLAW TRACY MORTALLY WOUNDED TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
HISTORY OF THE REMARKABLE DESPERADO'S CAREER ONE LONG RECORD OF MURDER,ROBBERY AND TREACHERY.

Harry Tracy,or Harry Garr,as he then called himself,made his entry "of record" as a criminal in 1891 at Dillon Montana where he was arrested by Sheriff A.Rose for stealing a keg of beer. He gave his age as 19 years and his parent's residence as Missouri. Of his history from the time he left Missouri to that of his arrest at Dillon nothing is definitely known except that it was so shady he would not talk of it. Tracy's early training was evidently not of the best. He remarked to Sheriff Rose on learning that the sheriff had corresponded with his father on the subject of his being in jail: "Well I don't give a cuss,the old man stole hogs back in Missouri." On his release from the Dillon jail,Garr as he was then known,disappeared and for several years no one who knew him at Dillon heard anything of him. In 1897,in the photograph sent out by authorities of Harry Tracy,an escaped convict from the Utah Penitentiary, Sheriff Rose recognized his former prisoner Harry Garr. It seems that Tracy,along with one Laut,had committed several robberies in the spring of 1897 in Cache County Utah. They were arrested and sent up for eight years. Tracy by a ruse,disarmed the guard while at work outside the prison walls and with Laut and four other convicts made his escape. He and Laut succeeded in reaching a gang of robbers who held forth near the Colorado-Utah-Wyoming border under the leadership of George Curry.

ROBS TRAIN AND BANK

With Curry,Tracy was probably connected to the Wilcox train robbery and certainly in the robbery of the bank at Belle Fourche and of the post office at Big Piney in the same year. Tracy was known as a member of both the "Robbers Roost" and the "Hole-In-The-Wall" gangs of robbers. After the murder of a man named William Shields by P.Johnstone,one of the latter gang,Tracy,Laut and Jack Bennett fled to Brown's Park,Colorado where they committed numerous crimes,Including the killing of a ranchman named Hoy. This was believed to have been done by Tracy,though Johnstone is now serving a life sentence at Canyon City for the crime. Being pursued by a posse of citizens,Bennett and Johnstone were captured and the former was at once lynched. Tracy,after killing Deputy Sheriff Day,made his escape with Laut for the time but both were captured some days later and jailed at Aspen,Colorado. They were about to be extradited to Utah when on the night of June 22,1897,they nearly murdered Jailer Jones and made their escape,Laut has never been heard from since. Tracy made his way to Oregon where Merrill,who had been a member of one of his gangs lived. He took up his quarters with the latter,who lived in Portland with his mother,a brother and a stepsister.



TRACY'S OREGON RECORD

The Oregon career of Harry Tracy opened in the winter of 1893 and 1899 when,with his companion David Merrill,he terrorized Portland with a series of daring highway robberies and burglaries. On February 6,1899,he was arrested by Detective Weiner after an exchange of shots.Tracy attempted to make his escape by capturing the engine of a Southern Pacific train,clapping a revolver to the head of the engineer,he ordered him to make full speed. A railroad man who had witnessed Tracy's flight,mounted the train and applied the emergency brake. Tracy fled from the train and was pursued by the detective and a crowd. He was shot in the head by a boy,Albert Way,and was taken by policemen. Merrill had been previously captured. Tracy was placed in the County Jail on March 21,1899. When he was about to be taken upstairs to the courtroom for trial, he drew a revolver on Jailer Ned Dougherty. Dougherty dropped to his knees and called out: "It will do you no good to kill me,Harry. I won't open the doors anyway." Some conversation followed and Dougherty suddenly ran to a place of shelter and called to Deputy Sheriff Jordan to fire. Jordan sent a bullet whistling past Tracy's head. Tracy fired in return,and, as he ran around a corner of the steel cage dropped his pistol. Then he surrendered. He was given a 20 year term in the Salem Penitentiary and Merrill got 13 years. The jail break at Salem occurred on June 9, 1902 at 7 am. After marching to the stove foundry with the other prisoners,Tracy and Merrill snatched up rifles smuggled in by friends and concealed in the foundry and commenced their murderous work.


THREE GUARDS ARE KILLED

Guard Frank B Ferrell was shot in the foundry. With a shot of 150 yards,Tracy brought down Guard S.E Jones who was on the north wall. Before leaving the foundry, Merrill wounded prisoner Frank Ingraham who accidentally got in his way while he was obtaining a ladder to scale the walls. Ingraham's leg was amputated and public sympathy resulted in his pardon by the Governor. After scaling the wall Tracy and Merrill wounded and captured Guard B.F Tiffany,who had pursued them. Using him as a shield, they made their way a few hundred yards. A shot was fired from the penitentiary,and Tracy in reply murdered Guard Tiffany by shooting him before the eyes of the powerless prison officers. Returning to Salem the same night, the convicts held up J.W Roberts and robbed him of his clothing and also stole a team of horses. On July 10, they held up two members of a posse near Gervais and stole a horse and buggy and a rifle. The posse continued in pursuit until a point was reached near Needy, where all trace was lost, the men having passed through a cordon of militia the previous night. On July 15 they stole two horses and a wagon at New Era, a few miles from Oregon city, and drove through the suburbs of Portland in the early morning. They compelled W.W Paddock,George Sunderland and Walter Burlingame to row them across the Columbia River, landing at Liesters Point, a few miles above Vancouver Washington.


CHASE IN WASHINGTON

The chase was taken up by several sheriffs from various counties in the state of Washington. The outlaws were apparently surrounded on several occasions but each time they escaped. They walked and rode through the country, holding up farmers whenever they got hungry and compelling them to supply food, money or clothing. About June 28 near Chehalis,Washington, Tracy became suspicious of his partner, Merrill, and shot him. He threw the body in the bushes and it was found on July 14. Tracy claimed that Merrill was weakening and he feared he would turn State's Evidence. Probably the most spectacular move that the outlaw made during his dash for liberty was on July 2, when he took a gasoline launch near Olympia, compelled four men to board it and sailed down Puget Sound, landing within the city limits of Seattle. On July 3 Tracy killed Charles Raymond at Bothell and later in the day killed Policemen Breese and Niel Rowley in Woodland Park. He disappeared for several days, but on the 7th of July he was again heard from at Port Madison across Puget Sound, where he captured a man named Anderson and compelled him to keep him company for two days. During the next week the country between Seattle and Tacoma was aroused to the highest pitch by the bold and daring deeds of the outlaw. On several occasions he held up families and remained as their guest an entire day while hundreds of men were nearby looking for him. He had many narrow escapes from being captured, but about July 25 the chase was practically given up. The outlaw then crossed the Cascade Mountains and on July 30 was seen near Wenatchee. He was working his way eastward, evidently trying to reach his old haunts with the "Hole-In-The-Wall" gang in Wyoming. For two days and as many nights Tracy held the family of farmer L.B Eddy living near Creston, under subjection. Here again he showed nerve and cool headedness, but these very qualities brought about his downfall. Had he not allowed G.E Goldfinch, the 18 year old boy to leave the ranch when he did the story might have been different, but the outlaw had too much faith in estimating the terror his words of warning would inspire in the lad.

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St.Louis Republic January 31, 1901

WOMAN CHASED THIEVES
Mrs.Fred Heurmann, who conducts a dry goods store at 2201 Cherokee Street, complained to the police yesterday that three men entered her store Tuesday afternoon and that one of them asked to see a pair of gloves. While he was looking at them one of his companions seized a bolt of blue dotted flannel, put it beneath his overcoat and ran out of the store, followed by the other men. He ran west on Cherokee Street and dropped the flannel at Indiana Avenue. Mrs. Heurmann followed the men and recovered the flannel. The three men escaped.


San Francisco Call August 4, 1911

LABORERS ROBBED AND KILLED
Sedalia, Mo., Aug.3---Charged with murdering and robbing three of his countrymen at Chilhowee,Mo., Monday night, a Mexican laborer was arrested here today. The bodies of two of the Mexicans were found near a bunk car, terribly mutilated. A third victim was found nearby in a dying condition. The man arrested here had several checks made out to the slain Mexicans, also a bloody package of money.
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On September 1, 1879, John C. Collins and Charles Dorsey robbed a stagecoach in Nevada. A banker who was one of the passengers was carrying a bag with gold bars, he put up a struggle to protect his gold and Dorsey shot and killed him. About a year later, Collins, who had spent all of his money was arrested for burglary in St.Louis and sent to jail. While in the St.Louis jail he met an old friend of his named Roger O'Meara who served time with him in San Quentin. Collins began bragging to O'Meara about the stagecoach robbery and O'Meara, looking to get his own sentence reduced, ratted on him. Collins was extradited and hanged while Dorsey, the man who did the killing, lived to an old age.



Los Angeles Herald March 28, 1899

MISSOURI OFFICERS FIGHT BATTLE WITH BANDITS
Dexter, Mo., Mar-27---A pitched battle was fought 8 miles north of here yesterday between Charles Hendrickson and a gang of thieves, of which Hendrickson was the head, and Sheriff Evans and a posse of officials. After a 10 minute battle, during which about 100 shots were fired, Hendrickson was killed, receiving a wound in the head, his daughter, who was an active participant in the battle was perhaps wounded in the left breast and Deputy C.B Booth slightly wounded. Hendrickson and his gang are fugitives from Franklin county where they are charged with a number of robberies. They have been in hiding in this county for some time past, and were located here some time last week by detectives. Sunday as the officers neared the house they were met by a volley from every window. They pressed forward and at the time of Hendrickson's death were engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict with the thieves. Two were captured and five escaped.
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San Francisco Call December 21, 1896

STARTED BY THE INMATES
Jefferson,Mo., Dec.20---The source of last night's fire in State Prison has been traced to a gang of thirty three convicts, one of whom fired a bundle of refuse under a stairway in the clothing department. The fire smoldered until nearly midnight when it burst into a blaze. The incendiary act was no doubt done in a hope to escape during the confusion. Not withstanding, the great excitement Warden Payne and the guards at no time lost control of the prisoners. The clothing department is located in cell building 1, and while the guards were transferring the convicts from this building into cell building 3, two convicts attempted to escape but both were captured before they got away from the building. Great bravery was shown by the convicts, who were released from their cells to help extinguish the fire. A convict from St.Louis, who at one time belonged to the fire department of that city, acted as Captain to the State Fire Department. The Star Clothing Company, which is also situated in the same building as the State Department, was at one time in great danger of having its entire stock of clothing destroyed.


San Francisco Call March 8, 1904

DUNN ESCAPES JAIL AND NOOSE
MISSOURI MURDERER CONDEMNED TO DEATH FORCES WATCHMAN TO RELEASE HIM
St.Joseph,Mo., Mar.7---Mark Dunn, convicted of the murder of a wealthy farmer named Fenton and sentenced to be hanged, escaped from jail today. Dunn got possession of two revolvers that were smuggled into jail and forced the death watch to submit to being bound with wire he had used in making baskets. He held the watchman prisoner all night and forced him to call the jailer soon after daybreak. When the jailer appeared Dunn threatened to kill the death watch unless the jailer turned him out through the wheel. The jailer, to save the watchman, did as he ordered. Then the murderer forced the jailer and his brother, a deputy sheriff, to enter the jail, locked them in and escaped with the key.
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Charles Wade, alias John Scullen, Kid Taylor, Clarence Robinson, C.H Foster was a notorious St.Louis pickpocket and diamond thief. He served time in numerous jails and prisons across the country between 1903 and 1915.


San Francisco Call January 18, 1906

MISSOURI LIFE CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM A DEPUTY
Carthage,Mo., Jan. 17---John Franklin and Teddy Daly, life convicts in the Missouri Penitentiary, brought here on Monday to testify against Estill H. Butler, alias "Foot And A Half," on the charge of having murdered policeman Claude Bryce in Joplin, made their escape today. The men were in custody of Deputy Sheriff Marguias and were being transferred from Joplin, where the Butler trial is in progress, to the county jail in this city.



This next family lived in Joplin before moving to Kansas;

San Francisco Call March 10, 1909

DEATH IN PRISON ENDS LURID LIFE
NOTORIOUS WOMAN CONVICT ACCUSED OF MANY MURDERS DIES
Leavenworth,Kans.,Mar.9---Mrs.Nancy Wilson, generally known as Mrs.Stafflebach, one of the most notorious woman prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary, died of pneumonia today. She was 79 years old. Mrs.Stafflebach realized her serious condition and asked that her sons, George Stafflebach, a life time convict, and Charles Wilson, her second husband, another convict, be brought to her bedside. They were brought over by the prison officials and told they could remain with her until she died. George Stafflebach, the son, nearly collapsed when brought to his mother's cell. He asked if something could not be done so that his mother might die outside the penitentiary. The mother, who was conscious, begged to be permitted to die outside. The prison officials told her that they could do nothing. Mrs.Stafflebach was brought to the penitentiary to serve a 21 year sentence for murder in the second degree. At the same time two of her sons were brought in under life sentences, a third son to serve 7 years and Charles Wilson, her second husband, to serve 25 years. One of the sons serving a life sentence died 4 years ago. The third son served out his sentence, and it is reported that he is now serving a term in the Missouri penitentiary. The Stafflebachs lived near Galena,Kansas, and were accused of numerous atrocious murders. They ran a hotel and it was alleged that they murdered guests who had money and threw the bodies into a deserted mine. A number of skeletons were found on the premises. The Stafflebachs are generally ranked next to the Benders in the notorious Kansas murders.

The son of George Stafflebach. He was a war hero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Barger



The Benders, another similar family in that area.

The Bloody Benders’ Grim Harvest
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