Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-08
A BANDITS BLOODY WORK.

Joliet Penitentisry, Savagely Assaults
Ills keeper--He Breaks the Unfortunate
Oficial's Skull with a Poker. and Severe-
1y Stabs Another Guard-The Desperate
Man Only Overcome by Bloody Con-
fict in Which He Is Shot Twice.
JOLIET, ILL.,, March S.-Frank Rande. the
notorious murderer and bandit is employed
In the harness-shop of the penitentiary OF
this place. Saturday afternoon Deputy
Warden John Mcdonald was in the room
talking with James b. Madden, the shop
keeper when Rande crept stealtlnly up be-
hind him. holding in his hand heavy iron
poker which he had taken from the coal box.
Without word of warning he dealt McDon-
aid terrible blow on the back of the head,
knocking him senseless- He aimed another
blow at the PROSTATE deputy, but this was
received ON the arm of Madden, who Crap
pied with the murderous wretch and tried
to secure the poker. Both men fell to the
floor, Rande on the top, but Madden got
the poker away, III on which Rande drew a
knife and stabbed Madden in the arm. Then
William Raab, a life-convict, knocked the
knife from Rande's hands and seized him by
tie throat, Madden meantime regaining
his feet. Two more conyictS seized Rande's
hands and held him helpless. wlite Raab
squeezed his throat until the villain was
nearly strang.ed. Deputy Garvin and 9th
ers arrived and carried away the wounded
officer, after which Rande, now black in the
face, was released and ordered to march
ahead to the solitary cell, Garyin following.
AS they neared the door Rande attempted to
get hold of another knife, but was prevented
by MCGEE, the Methodist minister, serving q
f0urteen-year term for poisoning his wife.
Selling hammer, Rande threw it at
Mcthee, but missed, and Garvin then struck
the infuriated murderer on the head with a
heavy cane. The desperate then got hold
of the cane, when Garvin drew single
shot derringer and fired, the bullet striking
Rande on a rib in his left side,
but glancing OFF without doing Sc
rious harm. The convict made
rush at Garvin, but the latter got hold Of
the cane and prevented its use. Edward
Mcdonald, a brother of the wounded dep
uty, then placed a revolver at Rande's face
and told him to let go, but he refused, and
Mcdonald fired. The bullet entered the
desperado's ear, and with scream he
dropped to the floor.
Meantime physicians had been attending
Mcdonald, whose skull was badly fractured
open so that the pulsatOns of the blood
could be seen and the outer covering of the
brain picked in one or two places. The
surgeons removed two pieces of the skull as
large as half-doiarS and several smaller
pieces. When Rande was examined some
time afterward he was found to be still
alive. While the hospital steward was
making the examination Rande regained
enough OF bis senses 10 recognize those
about him, and when asked what cause he
had for his attempt, replied that Mcdonald
had put him in punishment and kept him
there for fifteen days, part of which time
he was forced to stand chained to the iron
door. He also said in an incoherent way
that he had been commissioned by God to
kill the deputy; that he, Rande had power
to save all men, and could prove it from
Scripture.
Tie condition of Deputy Mcdonald is bad,
but hopes are entertained that his strong
constitution will enable him to recover All
indications OF the wounds are favorable, but
his system received such severe shock
from the fearful blow inflicted by Rande
that it will be some days before the physl-
clans can feel sure of his recovery. He is
wholly conscious of the situation, and his
mind seems clear. Rande is also likely to re-
cover. The bullet will not be extracted
until to-day. He is still defiant, and ex-
presses regret that he did not kill Mcdonald,
still insisting that he was ''impeled" to the
crime. 1t is believed that the recent trial of
Mooney for the murder of his cell-mate sug-
gested TO Rande the idea of playing insane
in the hope of securing another trial. In
Rande'S clothing were found, among other
articles, a shoe knife, very sharp, and an
ruly vea,,Ou n,a1a Of ofoal gonna civ ipohn-
long known among saddlery- y-makers as
''cock-eye unch."
Rande, whose real name is Charles G.
Scott, was born in Pennsylvania in 1889, his
father being a bl. cksmith. The family
moved to Fairfield, Ia, thirty years ago,
and the old man is still there. Charles
was at one time a teacher and was married
at the age of twenty-three, his wife dying
in few months. Sixteen years ago he
committed his first recorded crime, a
burglary, for which he was sentenced to
seven years. Imprisonment. but escaped.
In 1872 he was sentenced to five
years under an assumed name for bur
glary at Michigan City, and during his sem
tence was source of continual trouble to
the prison authorities. Mayo, 1877, he was
discharged, and Friday. August 3, he broke
into gunsmith's store at Elmwood, Peoria
County, ILL.,, and stole a number of revolv-
ers. Two days later the house of Wood
ford Pearce, near Gibson, Knox County, was
robbed Of SIS and quantity of clothing
while the family were at church. The rob-
Der was followed by his tracks, and
discovered in a corn-field. In the attempt
to capture him Charles Beden was killed,
man named McKown shot through the
lungs, aud two other men and boy wound
ed. All efforts to secure the ruifian were
unavailing. About a month afterward he
robbed house at St Elmo Ei1ingham
County. The citizens turned out in pursuit
of the robber, came upon him in the timber
and commanded him to surrender. The
only answer received was murderous
volley from the Villains revolvers, and in
few minutes Messrs. John Scales, Frank
Wiseman and Frank Barnes. citizens of the
town, lay dead upon the field, while their
murderer escaped in spite of the efforts of
the Shole people to detain him. He then
fled to Indianapolis where he took up his
abode among number Of low white and
colored people. One day he destroyed a
wheelbarrow belonging to an old colored
man, and the police were called in. Officer
Durham arrested the criminal, who, after
going a few yards, quietly drew the in
evitable revolver and fired. A struggle
followed, and Rande broke away, and
when the 0ffioar p,rcual hrort,bf h;,, 1,,,,,.