Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-03
A N0TED CRIMINAL--A REMARKABLE
CAREER.

other ames, was arrested for forging a
ra'lroao pass. He gives quite remar-
kal.le ccount of himself, and according
10 his statement has been arrested seven
ty-nine times, been in twelve different
States prisons, and over forty station
hou~es and other places. He has also
been sentenced to terms Of imprisonment
aggregaiing fiity-eight years, but has
managed to crowd his whole service IN
prison between his fourteenth and thirty
sixty year He claims to be a native OF
Deal born, Wayne county. Mich. and
says that when twelve years old he join
ed a circus company aud went to Europe.
In London be tipped the till of linen
draper, and escaped transportation in
consrq rquence of his youth. From Lon
don he went to France, was soon arrested
there, and served eighteen months IN
rri.cn at Caen He then went back to
London, and after a short career there re-
turned to America In Kingston, Can
aud. he committed theft, and received a
years sentence. His next experience
was in Pittsbnrg lie was here for some
time, but dosi,ing to 90 away, and not
having the means. be robbed a man on
the Allegheny bridge one dark night to
procure them. but his usual luck attended
him, and be wac soon after arrested, be-
fore he had time to get rid of the results
Of his crime or leave the city. This
time he received ten years sentence,
and while undergoing it, was made to
suffer, he says, more than any ordinary
man could have stood and lived. When
arrested he had on bis person a fine saw
made from the handspring of a watch,
and this he managed 10 secrete SO care
fully that the strctest search failed to re-
veal it, Four times in three years did
he saw his way out Of prison, and each
time lac WAS caught before he could get
clear Of the grounds On each of the
first three occasions his sentence was iu-
creased as a punishment, but on the
fourth it was determined to make him
tell where The saw was. He refused all
bribes and laughed at the threats made
to induce him to give up, so it was re-
solved 10 use harsh means with him
He was put in the shower bath ever day
for several weeks, and kept there un-
ri the attending physician ordered the
punishment to cease, and yet he remained
firm. lie was then chained to the floor
by his arms aud legs, and only allowed a
respite of a few minutes each day from
this painful position, yet he held out in
his determination to keep his saw, and
even told his prosecutors that if they
would let mp in their vigilance in the
least he would take advantage of it and
get free. After several weeks of this
treatment the prison physician ordered
ing,y put in the chain gang and closely
watched. At night he was locked in a
double strong cell, aud it seemed impos-
zible for him to escape. He had become
so reduced from his punishment as to be
scarcely able to labor, yet in less than
three weeks after he had been put at work
he sawed off his chains, through his cell
door. and by means Of outside assistance
escaped, after spending something like
three and half years in the prison.
The time at which this transpired in
our Western Penitentiary must have
been previous to 1854, a. in his further
account Of himself, Bucklin (his real
name) saws be- landed in Cuba in that
wear, and was there sentenced to twenty
wears imprisonment, but escaped and
went 70 Mexico, There he was impris-
oned for robbery, to serve ten years, but
dug his way out. Iii. next exploit was
IN Illinois, where be was arrested for
safe blowing He escaped while await
ing trial. In 1866 he formed a partner
ship with the Reno gang, in Indiana, but
after the hanging by the ''vigilanis' at
Seymour fed to California His mother
he saws, still lives dt dearborn, Michigan.
He returned there short time ago, in
tending to become an honest man, but
old associations came upon him so strong
that he was forced TO give up his good
intentions and again take up his old life.
He says he can remember thirty-one
murders that have been committed by
pals" in different localities, but denies
having had hand in them. The great
est haul he ever made by any crime was
$4,000 in California Concluding his
account of himself, this remarkable crim-
nal says: Ask any Chief of Police, any
of the detectives, any of the Deputy
United States Marshals, or almost anv
prison warden in the West, who Charles
Uilderhrand, alias Charles Laville, alias
Tom, Dick and Harry, is, and they will
answer that he is black eyed spanish
looking chap of obout thirty years, wiry.
sharp, shrewd, and one of the most noted .
pocket pickers and robbers in this coun-
try. PWs5urg CommerciGI.