Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-18
JERRY HARRISON, ESCAPED IOWA
CONVICT, NOW DOING TIME
IN MINNESOTA.
HIS CRIMINAL CAREER
FULL OF ACTIVITIES
Harrison Has Done Time in Missouri,
South Dakota, Montana and Iowa
Family Once Residents of Jefferson
Brothers Also Apparently conver-
SAINT With Crime.

Special to Times Republican.
Jefferson, Dec. 1s-From Minneapo=,
lis comes the story of the latest es-
capade in the career of Jerry Harrison,
yeggman, a former Jefferson boy and
we'll known in this part of the state
as one of the cleverest and most dam
gerous criminals that the state has
ever turned out. His last crime was
the attempt to kill a policeman, after
doing hold-up stunt with a pal or
the streets of Minneapolis He was
year bit in the prison at Saltwater,
but the previous history OF ~. Harri-
son, yeggman, owner of no end of
aliases, will hardly bear out the belief
that he will be in prison ten years
from now. Harrison has a habit and
that habit is of making clever and al
most miraculous escapes from prison.
Harrison native Arkansan, COM
menced his criminal career when about
10 years of age. He was then con-
vlcted of burning a barn near Jeffer-
son. Ever since he has been old enough
to carry things off that did not belong
10 him he has either been in prison,
just escaping from one or wanted"
He served his first six months in iail
for burning barn for a man named
Harrington. Next he went to Sioux
Falls, S. D., and was soon serving a
two-year sentence for robbery. No
sooner had he gotten out of this scrape
than he attempted to burglarize post
office over in Minnesota and he was
again captured, and served a year in
Saltwater.
Did Wild West Hold up.
From there Jerry went out into Mon
tana and had a hand in a $4,000 dia-
mond robbery at Great Falls. AS usual
jerry was caught and served five years
in prison at Deer Lodge Mont.
From Montana Jerry returned to
good old Iowa. where he started out on
his criminal career and his next ex-
capade was one of the most daring and
audacious in the history of criminology.
He, with a pal, entered Mabel Woods
the old Red Light district of Des
3noiileS, uuItHS lHO IlelSHL OIL the les.
tivities and "stock-up' the joint; rob-
bling not only the visitors but the in-
mates, including the madam for thou
sands of dollars worth of diamonds,
watches and other Jewels besides all
of the cash at hand. True to his past
reputation Jerry was caught and given
fifteen year sentence.
Escaped From Iowa Prison.
After serving some time he put on
reforming stunt" and a movement
was started to effect his release but
while this was working slowly, he plan
ned and carried out a successful es-
cape. This was in May of this year
and while he was being hunted widely
by Iowa officers he managed to get
himself again into the clutches of the
Minnesota authorities.
His father was killed by a train at
Jefferson a few years ago and his
mother is supposed to be living. One
brother Will was arrested in Jefferson
once but broke Jail and has never been
heard of since: another brother, James,
at last accounts was serving time at
the Jefferson City, Mo, penitentiary for
highway robbery, while the youngest
brother, "Cleve," is known as "a sec
ond story" or porch climber and re-
Gently served time at Saltwater