The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-28
TRAIN R0BBER PARD0NED
BY GOVERNOR DAWSON

NUN UhusVUsN
ICOES BACK TO Ills
HOME and MOTHER
lIUSTtNG ssnt IS Thursday
nig6t tliets afFiyea vi 8lpupston
man who fgpred 81 the nolaest anil
one 81 tie most trssic occurrences
TINT ever staftlel tie people Of Hur'
ington tue hole, 10 iid robbery OF
pas engef tflin Ne. on she G. s. @.
5faiiRay lite ii die aataplu Of iss
The man ID ale ton & Thomas cel.
Inns. one Of tho tgo Participants
that daring al entare AZ eight
O'Clock Thursday Informing pardon p
pers carrying tae ignasure Of Co..
lernor DAWSON len Hslmanston i,r
Moundsyillej The paRbrs were dg
treceiyea BY Warden saadox and ccl.
Inns was ihnlea latel released az
took the early atteynopn train dire
for huntington
&. i y.
The crime Tor Which Collins W
sentenced % the penn entiary for liI''
while common III the Western COZ
try, was without parallel In West
Virginia, one cold morning IN .
cember, 1899 Collins and eompa's-
ion named Forge armed WITH hea
feYolyers and seenrelS masSed. boai'
ed No. 4. ilst as the fain was pulllf
out Of the local station They enter
one OF the coaches and began az
the customary fashion d desporad
to go through8the poclSet the pqa'
sengers. ma5nrst ofsEhose in Ill.,
car submitted philqsopHlcallg to ~
hold.up ordeal. One man however
wealthy old German q DE name Of
Teuck, objected TO tue prosednre ana
opened Are on Tho robbers rhe mas
ed men returned the fre Other paa.
sengers who happened VI armed.
encouraged by The ezmple 81 Tepei
also opened IRE and BY the time 'te
train reached The & 9. shops NIT
tiers had, become SO wafmthat tie rob
beers beat retreat Meantime the
piucly old German WIG balked ia
scheme Of the robbers haa received p
mortal wound and died The invader
while escaping With thsts lives each
received serious wounds They mr
aged to escape. and gerebot fmmedl'
ately captured N1bshsoaS nj the CT
tody Of the law they We're given a
speedy trial and both were given liie
sentences to the statsp rison
1foundsyillo.
Collins was At the time et the :,
berry 4 boy only elgfiteep years q
Forgey, who was mich older man,
engineered the plot and she eener
belief In this circanstanees tepdf
largely then and since 70 moliifg pu
lie feeling with reference 10 Collins
Collins was then emp egsd IN The n'
forge at tie Ican caf 8 Foundry
Company and lived sith rs widow
mother at pradrtc d When sem
ltenced to the prison Collins was lu'
ty youth gigIng mpnlipla eflienc
Of physical thFif ana ylgor But he
is not SO to-day years in the
State prison have lei him but the tfr'
Hest wreck Of his former self caur
emaciated and holloBeyea he Shows
many evidences of the plison wre.k.
land whether iifa II the omen air win
Irestore him to any dsggee Of his %
mer health Is q que sion which only
time can decide bat AZ present he
odds seem to be against him He
now thiHy.three and weighs bnt MIN
ltythree pounds
The Sarden,s report show INT
Collins was model pslsoner lls
/ worked for nine years in the wpiD
shop fthe prison anddnrlng tie So
six years Of the fifteen spent in serfl
tude he was empl oyedn the pris q
drug store.
ForgeS Collins. compapIcn in crIiee
is stilI'at the prison frid whether any
epart Of that ciemency which has 81
cued the latter from Prison life win
ultimately be extendsdstc the former
remains to be seen. otttis howe' r.
4 there Is no iInme dlate prospect, el
best Forgey. according 70 Collins
report works Il tie sliirt department.
Il Twelve years ago he psotessed lells'
lion, andis nov. egular Shorier go
the prison services IL has Collins
declares attained dsep lnowiea 4e
Of the script res and has become %
fspeaker 81 eonsia efable force
Collins went 70 tie home Of his
mother at lie corner OF rwentirh
|. street and Locust Venue While bis