, 1885-12-13
OVER THE ROAD"
A Hard Set of Citizens Who vii
Leave To-day.
Convicts Who Will Serve Terms at
Joliet.

Seldom in the history of Laramie county
has a more hardened or desperate set of
criminals gone out from our midst than
that which which will leave to-day for
Joliet, where the various members OF the
gang will be assigned to service within the
walls OF the penitentiary at that place.
There have been more numerous gangs,
and some of whose members were ac-
cused OF and had been convicted of more
heinous offences, but at the same time no
set of graduates sent out from here
or rather from our jail-hnve been per
sonally worse than those WHO will 20 to
day, nor SO bad. if the fact OF shrewdness.
cunning and deviltry be taken into &c
count IN forming an estimate oi bad men.
Deputy Sheriff. McGonigle, assisted by
Andy Ryan and Geo. w. Morgan, who
will accompany McGonigle as assistants
aud special deputies, will start to-day for
Joliet with all the prisoners who have re
Gently been sentenced for the commission
Of felonious crimes by the district court
There are six Of these who arc to 60, and
their names, crimes anl the terms tor
which they have been sentenced are as
follows:
Frank Zolondack, who was convicted of
the crime Of grand larceny Of a horse,
goes to the penitentiary Tor the term of
five years.
William Whiting, who was sentence
on two Indictments, the first for larceny Us
biilee aud the second for plain grand lar
ceny, goes for one year and SIX months on
the first Indictment aud for two years and
six months on the latter. It should be
stated, however. that the time from which
the sentence begins to run in each case
commences on the same day, 50 that
Whiting's term at Joliet is really but "
and one-haif years.
Thomas Fry ar. who was the main wit
ness for the prosecution in the Wilson
case, but whose testimony was evidently
not believed by the Jury. pleaded guilty to
the crime Of knowingly receiving stolen
properly CHE same that Wilson was
charged with stealing, n was sentenced
to one year aud six months at Joliet.
Charles Gambell, who pleaded guilty to
the crime of forgery, is sentenced to a
term of two years at Joliet, and will prob
ably be able to learn a good trade during
that ter,u, as he expresses the hope that
he will be able to do 80.
August Sehnakenberr, who, in some
respects, is the worst character in the
entire gang, goes to Joliet for the term Of
two years for forgery. Schnukenberg is
very sharp aud shrewd, and when first
arrested and even after he had been
brought back here from New York, pre-
tended to be insane, Eventually, however,
he found that his little game was alto
gether too thin, and alter he came to this
conclusion he lail several plans and
schemes 10 break out of Jail, in which he
was thwarted By the vigilance Of the off
GERS Of the Jail.
Last OF all IN this gang Is James Sill.
the legless Mexican, who is to serve four
years for horse stealing. Sill is positively
a hard character, Notwithstanding the fact
that he is Il hopeless cripple. 1t is only
about five months ago that he left Chey-
emit in company With an old and feeble
Mexican and started south into Colorado.
In w or three days Sill came back with
the old M~exiean's horses, which he sold,
and although diligent search has been
made far and wide the old man has never
been seen or heard from since the day he
left Cheyenne in company with the Grip
pied Mexican.
McGonigle and his assistants expect to
get through to jacksonville with the gang
by Tuesday night.