The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10

( his credit when he transferred his field ot
operations 20 Bodie. On Septem Der 5.
looO, having robbed a stage on the preyi-
Gus evening, he ana his pa, Jones,
stopped the stage running between Bodie
and Carson. Jones began work by killing
one of the stage horses. Before he could
recock his pistol the express messenger
shot him dead and received Sharp's fire
in the right arm. Leaving his partner
dead in the road, Sharp demanded the
express-box from the driver and robbed it
OF 500. He then made of, but the fame
OF his exploit followed 'him. He was
caught and sent TO the Aurora Jail. From
that place of captivity he escaped with
an Oregon boot on his leg. Captain Lees
found him On the side of the ROAD trying
to hammer the boot off with big stone.
He was transferred in short order to the
Nevada State Prison, where he was sem
fenced to remain twenty years. If he Is
alive still, he may see III twentieth GEN.
tury through iron bars.
Captain J. B. Hume, the officer who is
at the head of Welis-Fargo's detective
service, has compiled in his "Robb bers'
Record" much entertaining information
regarding the road agents OF the past. The
captain Is hale, hearty veteran, on the
verge OF 20, with gray mustache, a sharp
voice, quick eye, resolute manner and
figure which indicates no decline IN his
early vigor. He looks like man whose
clutch could not be easily shaken off the
throat OF robber. He and Captain Lees
are we'll matched couple.
In his book the story of many man
m k i
be read with interest. There you find the
record OF W. Z. Andrus, alias Big Foot,
who was sent TO San Quentin for thirty
years for killing Henry Peck Benton and
wounding the stage-driver, Wood worth,
and passenger named kaufman. He
was killed in the State Prison by fellow
prisoner. Here is the story of Cicero
Grimes, who with his brother and others
robbed stage at Casa Grande, Arizona,
and killed the express messenger and a
passenger. The robbers were arrested
three days afterward; two of them were
Iynched; Cicero was sent to the peniten-
uary at Yuma. Feignlng insanity he was
transferred to the asylum at Stockton,
from which he escaped and has never been
heard OF since. Here is the biography OF
James or John Ivey, the man of many
aliases and many escapes. He served the
whole or part of eight terms in the peni-
tenuary and no sooner got out than he
fell into his old courses. SIX times he
escaped and was returned on new charges
From 1884 to 1884 he spent more months
in jail than ont OF it.
Kit Joy is here, the man who was so
nearly lynched at Silver City when Mitch
Lee and Frank Tageart were guests of
honor at the necktie party. He escaped,
but was followed and two weeks after
ward was brought TO bay. He fought
like tiger ior his liberty and was only
subdued when the contents of shotgun
loaded with buckshot We're poured into
his leg just at the knee. The limb was
amputated, but the operation was
Dunghnglv performed and had to be re-
peated four inches higher up. He was
brought to trial for the murder in New
Mexico, and in consideration of his Grip
pie condition and in Difference TO the
prayers of his aged father and mother
and other relatives the jury let him off
with verdict Of murder in the second
degree, Tor which he is believed to be now
serving his time at the prison in Santa Fe.
A savage brute, whose biography is in