The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-21

The Outlaw Who Murdered q st.
Louis Policeman and Killed
Sir Other Persons.

Dubuque tiowa) Times.
Frank Rande. the notorious outlaw
and desperate, who Was confined in
the Joliet penitentiary for lite. wa
shot few days since and killed BY
one of the guards while trying to make
his escape. This man, whose hands
were stained with the blood of many
murders, formerly resieied in Fairfield.
this state. and from the time he lett
his Iowa home his career has been a
checkered one. Some months ago u
brother Of Rande. who resided in
Fairplay, Wis got into q squabble
with some Of the hard cases Of that
burg and gave them y severe thresh.
ing, which was fully written up in the
Times. A few days after the item ap-
peared, Times reporter was favored
with visit from Ranie, who came. to
saw that he had been forced into the
fight by several Of the DULLES, who
always made tia point to try the sand
Of all new arrivals. He did not DIP
pear 20 he very excited. and after he
had stated his case y pleasant and in
teresting conversation ensued in regard
to his brother, who was serving out q
life sentence in Joliet.
"He was . good boy. Frank was"
remarked Rande. "but his wife is to
blame for his reckless career. She
was u perfect man tOrmentor, and
every day Of his married life. Frank
was abused. To secure peace he left
home and drifted down through Tex.
rs. where he fell among the hardest
criminals and commenced his bloody
record. We boys are all husky feI-
lows and | am q perfect picture of
Frank, and might also saw that !
would fight till | dropped dead to re-
sent an insult. We often heard Of the
murders he had committed. but what
could we do? 1 remember when l
was home he wrote q letter to father
saying he vas followed by detectives
day aud night. and he should not feel
surprised at any time tn learn that he
had sent another man to bite the dust.
l tell you he did not care as much for
his lite as ] do for q dollar. He knew
the world dispised him, and would
give a shout Of joy to see his life
blood spilled.
"Were you present at the trial at
Galesburg :" remarked the reporter.
"Wss 1? Well. should say we
were all there. determined to see fair
play. My father, on the way to
Galesburg, took US to one side and
gave us orders not to say one word
about Frank, but to Keep our mouths
closed. The papers, you remember,
were filled with articles saying that
Frank Rande would be hung BY q
mob. should the judge not find him
guilty. Now, we feared that that
would be the case, 80 We came prepar.
ed to see it out. If the Judge had
said 'Rande shall hang. he would
have been hung, and that execution
would have been witnessed by Us.
But did he say prison for life, then
ne should 60 to prison, and woe be to
the man who touched one hair OF his
head. Now. my father and brothers
did not intend to save him from the
hands Of the lynchers unaided, but
We had his friends from all parts OF the |
at his side. who we're lying
low and waiting for the time to arrive
when their services we're most needed.
don't believe 500 men c0uld hare t.
ken him, and If they did, it would
have cost them q number OF lives. Al
believe he killed the men at Galesburg
but it was done in self-defence, and |
10 not think they could have found
him guilty Of murder on this charge"
Rande at this time also entertained
he idea that his brother would be par
1oned in few years, and he would
hen be free man, rs it would be i'm
possible to hold him on any other
:harge. As he was serving a life SEN
ence. As he left he said /: "Now
X that up all right, as 1 don't want
ny folks in Fairfield to know that /
vas in . fight"