The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-09
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Richard Manning, Alias Charles
Pearce, Desperate Criminal, Arrest
ed on Expiration of His Sentence.

MARQUETTE, Mich. June g.
Shortly after six O'clock the evening
OF Jan. IL, 1901. two men walked into
Lee & Tenneson's meat market at
Ironwood and. requesting Lars Tenne-
son TO hold up his hands. poked two
revolvers under his nose and ordered
him to refrain from making any noise.
Then while one of the men kept Ten
neson under cover, the other broke the
lock In the cash drawer of the safe
and took from 1t 500. Then the two
looted the drawer In the cash register,
getting $S8 more, and made their es-
cape. Two days later the burglars
were arrested by Sheriff Tom Jeffery
In Houghton county, Stanley j. Rode
baugh being taken at Sidnaw and
Richard Manning. at Pori.
Both men were tried at the Febru-
airy term OF circuit court. Rodebaugh
made fight for freedom. but the evi-
dence adduced at the trial was 80 con.
elusive that Jury found him guilty In
record time and he was sentenced to
fifteen years In the penitentiary a.
Marquette. Manning at first felt In
clined to face the thing out to finish
as Rodebaugh had done. but the ap-
pearance In the court Of John A.
Falls. s. D., the morning that Man.
ning's trial was to begin caused Man
ming to decide that a plea Of guilty
would save him a few years Of con-
finement, and acting on that impulse
he confessed his guilt. He had been
released from the South Dakota prison
only short time before the Ironwood
robbery occurred, having been con-
fined to that institution for some two
and one-half years for the robbery Of
the postoffice at Lincoln, Neb.
Manning or. rather, Charles Psarce
which Is his right name, Is the man
who was arrested at the Marquette
penitentiary by NJ. w. McClaughry, a
special agent In the employ Of the
government, a few days ago, on the
expiration Of his sentence, charged
with having escaped from Leaven.
worth prison May 10. 1897. He has
now been returned to the Kansas In
stitution and rs once more serving time
there for the robbery of a postoffice
near Topeka. II was six months after
his escape from Leavenworth that he
was received at the South Dakota PEN
itentiary for breaking into the Lincoln
postoffice, Job which he pulled on
under the alias of Dick Austin, and
It was ten months after being released
from the Sioux Falls In 1900 that he
was enrolled among the convcts at
Marquette. He was traced to Mar
ouette by the Leavenworth prison man.
agement through his Bertillon meas
urements. The discovery that he was
behind the bars here was made few
years ago, but not until Detective Nc
Claughry came for him did that fact
become known to him. Then he fair
" collapsed. Manning, or Pearce, is
regarded as one of the most desper-
ate criminals in the country, and 1t Is
suspected that he Is the man who
killed policeman. in the railroad
yards at Joplin, Mo-. shortly after his
getaway from Leavenworth.
The escape Of Pearce and fellow
convict from the federal prison was a
sensational one. Both were In the
hospital ward. I'll with measles. They
succeeded In breaking the locks OF
their cells and. into the attic, broke q
hole through the roof. From the roof
they slid down into the prison en-
closure, and scaled the low wall In
the darkness and rain. Pearce's
partner was found In the South Dakota
penitentiary in 1900 few weeks after
Pearce's sentence had expired and he
had been released.