Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-07-11

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From The German of Theodore Korner
PROUD OF HIS CRIMES.
The Record of a Noted Criminal Tarns
Red Ribbonite as Related by Himself.
Knightstown Ind:) Correspondence Indiana
oils Journal.
Your correspondent attended meeting
the Red Ribbon club i'll this city few eve
ings since, and listened to an address
! Charles D. Hildebrand, reformed drur
ard. At the conclusion of the address Il
speaker promised his audience, if they wou
only come to hear him the next eyenirl
that they would learn something in relate
Z. to the close connection of whisky to criul
the inner history of penitentiaries, and :,
| punishment received there which wo'
| astonish them.
The bronzed face. the nervous glance
| the eye, so often seen in criminals, an5 Il
peculiar bitter tone of the speaker when I
referred to prisons, attracted nay attentiol
| and an indefnable something in his gene /
appearance led me to believe that his Il
| had been supremacy bad one. So, a1t<
! he resumed his seat I handed him my c.!
and invited him to accompany me to ::
room at the Shipman HOUSE. He consent;
and, after we were comfortably seated.
'sdid tale unfold" which, if true. emit;
him to place in the annals of time, ale.l
side of Claude Duyal and Dick Turpir.
HILDEBRAND STORY.
Twas born in Detroit, Mich. When O.
enmonths old I was stolen FROM I
| mothers bosom by neighboring wor:~'
who, with her husband, joined tribe {
Indians living i'll the vicinity. ] rem ~:
Der little or nothing of my childb
| except that when I was seven years
the woman whom had called mother,
her death-bed confessed to her attendant i.
| old bag, that she had stolen me, and O..
! the name and address of my parents. :.
| also obtained from the nurse her promis
see that was sent home. This pro
was never kept.
then fell into the hands of two pr
sional thieves, and was taken to Paris.
that time have served in eleven pen Il
tlaries, eighteen years close continen d..
not including short confnements i'll nu:.:
| Gus station-houses. city prisons, and &C. i
! jails. My first sentence was in Paris. Fra.
two years in prison for pocket picking. /
| released after three months confinement
account of my extreme youth. being
only years old. Was sentenced mex
six months imprisonment i'll Bailey Pr.
| London, for the same offense. The
learned the alphabet for the first tim
then went to Canada, and was sentence
one years confinement in the Kings
Penitentiary for burglary, and for refu -;
| to obey prison orders was confined dn H.
the whole term of my sentence i'll dung
and for nearly SC5 days did not see :
light of day. When 7 was released f..
Canada begun my regular occupation, u
bank and county treasury work. This =;
my particular line of business, and l selu ],
! did any work outside of this, which is dec
eddy the best branch of the profession.
From 1852 to 1854 served in Allegha
Pa. where I learned to read and write. ".
then to Havana. and received sentenc,
| twenty one years for q red hot bank
berry: was released after three mon
| through the i1ssercession of the Amer :
consul.
In 1856 was sentenced eight years to II
!
'shush,'' had some powerful friends and e.
lawyers, and served only thirty days.
1857 | was sentenced four years to the Lo
isiana State prison at Baton Rouge, but Il
same Influences which secured my rele@
from Nashville were used with like effect
Baton Rouge, and saw the inside of Il
walls only two months.
My next sentence was in 1858, for tn
years, in Illinois State prison at Alt
[ was afterwards transferred to Joliet, anG
took me seven years to serve my sentence
! escaped four separate times, and was rec;:
tured each time. Ny partner, George Cha
was hung at Joliet for killing Deputy Wa
den Clarke. Clarke was O brutal fellow, a.
tyrannized numerically over Chase. F
| some trifing disobedience Clarke underto
| to whip him, and when he took hold of b.
to lead him to the whipping post, the co
vict drew slungshot, which be had ma.
| of stone and some leather, and killed Clar,
| with single blow. was released from Jc
let Feb. IS. 1866.
In May, 1866, I made my escape from tt
Indianapolis Jail, where I had been locked I
On charge of a bank robbery, and the Ind.aI
apolis city court was the only place where
ever gave my true name.
In the fall OF 1856 vas sentenced for fl
years tn Wisconsin State prison at Wa,
pun, and for refusal to work was confne
in cell four feet by seven, with bill an
chain to my foot, for four years, four month
and seventeen days. Was released Marc
1871.
toll 4 I was sentenced at Terre Han
4, fu years confinement ia tho indiana
lis State prison at Jeffersonyille, but had tx
sentence curtailed four months on a
count of good behavior. Was released DC
%, 1877
was arrested in Indianapolis in 1872, c
charge of completely in the Meridian stree
bank robbery, but no evidence was offers
which could hold me. was immediate
taken to ST.. Joseph county, Michigan, c
charge of robbing the county treasurer S saf
trumped up charge against my capto
Detective John Funday, got him in jail, a,
cleared myself. was never sentenced twl'
under the same u.ne, anus s asha H.. a az
amount Of my sentences reaches sixty thre
years.
1Hlldebrand STATS that the finest piece 0
work ever executed In the United States e
course ne was 10 engaged in it, was the rok
berry OF the Faas City bank in Louisville
The burglars ganed an entrance saturda
night into apinpurance office Immediate
out the floor d1s up L the bricks until the
reached the vass.s then, from o'clock Sun
day morning until to'clock Monday mort
ing, they succeeded, ut not, without th
hardest kind d hard x:ss-k, in drilling IS
holes through the chillea steel top, thre,
quarters of an inch thick, and lifted the pla:
ont. Then they had nothing to encountc
except pisster- of-paris cemelas, and so
iron... The haul realized them $325, 900 !
currency, bonds and diamonds. r.
Hl1dehrand further states that in the cas-
of county treasury robberies, where comb
| nations have been opened, treasures al
| often unjustly accused of completely. Ne
can be found. and without much difficult
who will disclose com inations for certai
percentage Of the ssswag.n IN the case G
the recent Clermont county, O., robbery, 8
Batavia, the combination was given TO Il
thieves BY an outsider, well known to Hid
brand. i EE -
This comes from distinguished
author, who Thoroughly appreciates Mile
sian humor; In nothing does the curl
GUS twist of the Hibernian mind pro