Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-21

tense, and vas marred only by refusal
of the authorities to let him wear Ills
pistols. He begged psteously TO have
the weapons given up TO him. unioadel
Of course. for he said he appeared 50
much better with them on. The sherln
finally consented TO let the fellow have
his picture taken with his harness and
revoivers IN place, and those photo
graphs were sold in large numbers
While Rande vas IN jail at Gaiesburg,
be received long letter from Jack
Langdon, thea under sentence of death
IN Texas for murder. ID which the Lone
Star desperate expressed the greatest
admiration fox the Illinois muir
de,er. Jack had killed nineteen
rnen in bis day, bot be magranimously
refused TO claim greater distinction
than that which he freely gave TO
Rande, for he said the quality of
Rande's victims vas higher than that
of his. some of whom we're only Mig
gers and half-breeds," and didn't
couu; for much" Jack recited few
of the biggest things he ever did Tor
the entertainment Of kande. and ex-
pressed consuming desire 10 read tie
life of the Illinois murderer, which Re
urged kande TO write. II he lad not
done 50 already. de enclosed copy
of his own life and adventures and
only regretted that he mad not been
able TO make the narrative still ,nJre
interesting. kande beg IN work on Al
exhaustive biography, AID con ii.1eo
his iabuTs throughout his tri II.
farce, and resulted III verdict OF isur-
der, with sentence TO life iApris'n
,nent, fixed by ttlS jury itself. The de-
fence was insanity, bat the only I'M
preston that coull be made on the
jury WAS III the direction of mitigation
of sentence. The result of the trial
vas a great disappointment TO every
citizen of Knox County, but there WAS
no move In the direction OF VIOLENCE.
During ths trial Rande wore the same
suit of clothes which he had on when
he was shot Ill the st. Louis pawnshop,
and there were ragged holes and blood
stains very suggestive Of the carnage
through W ich he had passed. Soue
people believed that this tact, and the
additional one that RAnde was still fee
bic and apparently irresponsible for his
mad dog proclivities, induced the jury
TO foreeo the death sentence IL his case.
In Joliet, kande has been a trouble
some prisoner. He has been feared and
hated by his fellow prisoners, and the
officers always kept him under close
watch. He had an idea that he was a
| sort Of leader III the prison by Re ssOn of
his pre- eminence IN crime, and he used
to refer contem tuous|y to these
crooks" as If they We're far benea.th
him In social status. At first he devoted
his spare time to writing novels based
on incidents in his own career, III which
he always figured As the nero. These
works he called The American Bri
gand, The knsx County Desperate"
The st. Louis Pawn Shop Fiend." and
The Brilliant Bandit of the Wab ssh. y
When he discovered that these could
never be printed he turned his attention
to inventions, and during the last three
or four months he has drawn plans and
specifications for several curious con
trivances. He bad scheme for per
petual motion which be Was sure would
do away with the use of steam on rail
roads. Besides fire escape of some
merit he got up what he called Grim
inal detector. If he could only gel out
OF prison to perfect 1t, he said, no guilty
man could ever escape. 1t would fer
ret out crime better than any detective
He had an entirely new plan in telr
graphy, by which he could send infor
nation instantly to any distance with
out the use Of electricity, and Just before
he made his last deadly assault on his
keeper, he was at work on the plans and
specifications of gun which was to
shoot and kill at thirty miles range.
kande is desperately wounded. but
he may recover. He has had some
rational spells, and in these he has
boaated that ne has killed thirteen
men. and expressed the hope that the
Warden would die. so as to make the
score fourteen: 10 all Inquiries as to
his condition he says he Is all right and
will be out in few days, AS he has had
worse wounds than those from which
he Is now suffering, and has recovered.
1t seems almost impossible to kill him.
The bali which be received the other
day in the ear was fired with the muzzle
of the revolver not three inches from
his head. and the bullet passed through
the skull at the base of the brain, bat
the prison surgeons say that he will
probably get We'll.