The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-04

Others. But nv witnesses were all known
crooks, and the states witnesses indenti-
fed me positively. The result was | got
twenty-eight years in Michigan City; my
! lawyer got two years for fixing up the
alibi, and all my witnesses got Jail SEN
fences.
when I went to Michigan CT, gam
bier in indianapolis bet the sheriff $1,000
/ ! wouldn't be there six months They
took me up with heavy shackles and
, watched me close. Before six months ex-
pired tunneled out. but was caught with
in 400 yards of the wall. There was dis
pute as to whether this was a getaway
and in the end il was decided to call the
bet draw.
"My lawyer and tried to take the din
ing-room one day, but none of the men
would join us and we had TO sit down.
Another time there was conspiracy to
take the dining-room and break out, but
the boys all deserted me- With a butch
er's clever L drove all the dining-room
guards into the corner and then tried to
get the boys up, but they wouldn't come.
| The outside guards put guns through the
windows and shot me. got one ball in
the neck and one in the side. The doctor
said would not live an hour. The papers
wrote up, "The Last Act of Hoosier Bill"
as ii l was already dead.
after that did no work. wouldn't
work, and they said set bad example.
They punished me, but that did no good,
and finally the prison authorities recon-
mended my pardon. Blue Jeans Will
Jams pardoned me on July 4, 1878"
sqneaIed on Biebusch, Counterfeiter.
"The Columbus (O.) people wanted me,
but got away from Michigan City to ST.
Louis before they knew it. Pete Mozart
ney, the big counterieiter, was then in
Michigan City. He gave me an order on
g party for $4,000 in 7-30 L. s. bonds
and his celebrated $50 plate, with the I'M
derstanding that / would 60 to Washing
ton and negotiate his pardon. The party
wouldn't give UP, but sent me to St. Louis
to see Biebusch. Then he put secret SER
vice men on me. They followed to st.
Louis on the next train. For two DAYS
they watched for me and found no trace
of me. | staid away from the usual hang
outs, and devoted myself to selling goods.
| / sold fire kindlers, indestructible lamp
| chimneys and all kinds of fakes. I was
attending to business every day. Bic
busch held me off fora long time. Then he
asked me to rob house for silver. He hada
! pointer from a negro porter in a place
where there was good stuff. l got the sill
yer and gave it to him. A day or two
| afterward l went around to see him. He
! took me out in a hack room. Look at
| that, he said, see what you brought me-
! He showed me a LOT of plated silver. |
had not seen the stuff in the dark. [ be-
| lieved he was dealing square with me. He
begged me take it away, and dumped it
in sack and took it off. put it down a
sewer, where the police afierwsrd got it.
After awhile | got straight pointer
! that Biebusch had Tung in bad stuff on
me for the good stuff had brought him.
hung about his place watching for a
chance to get back. One day | saw a
/ bundle being paid over TO him and
snatched it. He got mad and wanted to
know what that was for l told him it
was for silver.
"The he put the police on to me.
heard of this and skipped to Chicago,
where put Secret Service Agent Hall on
TO Biebusch. Hall came down here and
Biebusch was pinched.
From there l went to Joliet for holding
up a doctor on the street. That was in
the winter OF 1888. l was wanted down
here &c a witness against Biebusch. but /
refused to come. They brought me by
| force. I protested against being taken
from the pen, against crossing the bridge,
and then claimed my freedom on Missouri
soil, as had been taken against my will
out of Illinois. They took me back by
force, and had preparations made to take
the matter before the supreme court when
the warden sprung the old papers from
1865 on me. He said If | made the kick
would be extradited on the old sentence,
and if ] didn't kick no one should see
them. gave up then and served six
years and three months
@ox-
"When I got out went 10 Clinton, Ia.
was full Of patent pillow scheme. had
a plow on paper that was intended to rev
olutionize the business. 1t was TO operate
Ike lawn mower cut up the ground to
any depth required and leave the ground
like well made garden bed. Frank
Thornburg bit. He let me have S2j q
week for personal expenses and all the
! money needed for experiments. After ]
had bowed him for $1,000 robbed the
house OF his friend Claude Cohen. | was
seen leaving the house by Cohen, who
recognized me and | went to the per for
five years. After that time was served
went 10 Kansas City and caught man on
the plow. He blew in for nine months.
! Everything failed and he got diegusted.
The pillow was beauty on paper, but she
wouldn't work Oh the ground. He gave
me Dach al his rlghI ana interest IN the
patent and l caught another on it for
81, 400 in two months.
The Records End.
"Was that your latest crime?"
ayes, that was the last. The old way
doesn't paw. I'm business man now. In
my time I've handled hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars. I've spent it all. It's
remarkable the amount of money man
can spend when he puts his mind to it
I'm broke now, and you'll have to stake
me for something to eat. Pm not as
strong as I used to be either. When
struck town put up my overcoat with q
pawn-broker for 80 cents. 1 went back to
him with 81 for the coat and he drove me
from the place with poker. That'swhai
I've come to. No, don't intend to work
the old way any more. I'm a business
man now. and nothing but business
goes"
TWO CONVERTS OF SAM JONES.
| The Old Mau Wanted to Show How Happy