The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-08
CONSIDERABLE RANDE!
The brilliant Bandit' of Two or
Three States Saves Trouble.
He Makes n Very satisfactory EXIT
Int the Vast UnknOwn---A
Handy Pair of Suspend
ers.-.His Crimes.


turing Thursday night When keeper Nc
Donald opened the blind door to Rande's cell
in the morning, he was startled on beholding
The form Of the murderer hanging to the bars,
clothed in nothing but his drawers and his
socks. By means of his undershirt and sus-
penders he had made rope by twisting
the strips together, and fastened them to the
top bars Of the door. He had then placed his
coat and vest over the iron-work of the door,
to shield his body from the chilly touch of
the iron, and at the bottom of the door he
placei bis cell bucket, bottom upward, under
which lay his pants TO daaden the sound of
his struggles while dying When the
ioor was swung back the body had a
very natural appearance. The feet rested
upon the floor, the hands hung straight down
by his side, the head was thrown to one side,
with the eyes wide open in a natural manner,
bu5 the face is now rapidly turning black.
The prison artist took several different photo
graphic views of the body before it was cut
down. A ooroner's jury is now holding an
inquest.
Thusday afternoon Warden McClaughrey
paid visit to the cell Of Rande, and con-
versed with the wretch for few moments
l;ande had not been informed that Deputy
Mcdonald was in fair way of recovering,
and was under the impression that his cruel
! Low had killed him. When the warden en-
tered the cell RanJe seemed glad to see him,
! AMI greeted him with: Hello, majCrl you
| are just The man l want to see"
Al am just the man you viii see, and no
ono else replied the warden.
| Il want you to send to Peoria for Frank
| Hitchcock, formerly the sheriff, and to Gales
| burg for States Attorney Tanniclif, and
| when you three men are here in this cell be-
! fore me l will tell you something wonderful"
! said Randa
The warden did not reply to him, but as he
was passing cut Of his cell Rande called him
back and begged him to take him out and
hang him. Il cannot do that, Rande; but
! ne er fear you will be hung soon enough"
was the reply.
The warden then left him At O'Clock
p. NJ. the guard opened his cell and passed in
Rande's supper ration. At that hour the
bandit was pacing up and down the cell,
talking wildly TO himself. The supper was
placed inside the door and the cell locked
and not opened again until O'Clock in the
morning, when it was discovered that the
brilliant bandit Of the Wabash" had com.
mitted at least one decent deed during his
career, in ending his life without troubling
the officers of the law.
Rande was received at the prison Feb o.
1878, on a life sentence His real name is
Charles C. Scott, and bis early life was spent
at his home in Fairfield, Iowa. In 1877 he
was known to have killed no less than five
persons, and is now supposed to have muir
dered thirteen victims il all. He has gloriet
] in ba ~
and" Knox county desperate" 'St. Loui
pawn-sbop fiend," Brilliant bandit o.
the Wabash" and other equally bloody anC
interesting titles. His career in the prisol
has been mUtinous in the extreme. Again
and again has he been placed in irons for in
: citing various disturbances among his fellow
i conyicts by whom be has been cordially de
+ tested Born in Pennsylvania in 1899, tn
son of blacksmith Rande moved to Fair
field, Iowa, thirty years ago. He lived for
time the life of huEter and trapper, Will
Lis snesking and cowardly disposition gradu
ally uufolded and finally blossomed GU
into that Of the most unprincipled and blood
thirsty villain the country has ever seen
After serving five years in the Michigan Cit,
penitentiary for grand larceny, he com
menced his career as a murderer. Ate
robbing gunsnlith OF several revolyers, h
broke into a farmhouse near Galesbury
] while the inmates were at church. Ieav
ing the house with his plundsr, through
a corn field. The farmer, discovering hi
loss, alarmed several neighbors, and
following the robbers track soon surrounded
him. Rande made good use of his revolver
and escaped, leaving in a corn-fsld the dead
bodies Of three of his pursue The horri
fed and outraged community secured TIL
country for miles around to find the mur
derer, but in vain. A little more than
week later Rande robbed another house a
st. Elmo, near bingham, on the Vandali
road. He was pursued by tn
citizens, surrounded in a piece Of woods, an
' agein escaped, leaving, as q memento of hi
fendishness, the bullet-riddled bodies Of job
q Scales Frank Wiseman, and Frank Barne:
: Finding the country becoming decidedly to
Q hot for him. Rande went to indianapolis
. where, while living in the constant societ
Of the most depravel characters, he mali
ciously provoked the anger Of a fellow
reprobate, who called in an officer Rand
- again escaped, after shooting two or thre
officers, and next turned up in St Loui
There he shot two men in a pawn-shop b.
II fore be was finally overpowered His tri.
IS in Knox county was looked upon as libel {
l. the most disgraeeful nature, as it saved Il
9 murdeFer's neck from the gallows.