The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-26

n.sa xz crime that had been committed, and . posse of armed men who knew the hills thoroughly started in pursuit.
 The bandits, knowing that the spirit of vengeance must have been un- leashed upon their track, lost no time in making for the mountains through which they rode for several days, camping by day and doing most of their travelling by night. Finally, be- lieyng that they had thrown their pursuers off the trail, they camped within 20 miles of Benson and there their fate found them. Both were sleeping heavily when noise of shouting and the firing of guns aroused Pearl from her slumbars. Springng to her feet she beheld circle of dark, stern bees around her | and the grim muZzles of several Win chester rifles covering her and her | companion. A posse under the com | mand of Sheriff Truman of Pinal county had tracked the bandits to their lair and the long chase was at an end.
 Pearl always a good loser submit
 ted with a gamblers grace to the in- | eyitable, and she and the ex-prospec- l tor were taken to Benson and then to | Florence, where she was separated l from her companion, brought to Tue
 son and lodged in jail. It was there
 that l interviewed her in her cell, and after some trouble succeeded in ob- taining from her written confession covering the whole of her eyentful l career. Her adventures had not, how
 ever, quite come to a finish at this | point.
 Pearl Hart did not approve of her | quarters in the Tucson jail and had 1 no intention of remaining there any l longer than was necessary. Fortune | favored her by turning up a friend in | the person of fellow prisoner who | had but one day more to serve in the | jail. This man was at first looked upon by the girl as a deadly enemy, but cir cumstances conspired to change her opinion.
 While in the jail the girl bandit made a pet of a young wild cat. She kept the animal in her cell most of the time but occasionally 1t roamed into the corridor and visited the other prisoners. One day it entered the cell of the short-term prisoner. He picked up the cat and it bit him saw agely, inflcting a deep gash in his hand. With howl of rage and pain he dashed the animal upon the steel floor and killed it.
 For hours Pearl sat in her cell cursing the man who had slain her pet
 but later, when he had an opportunity l to speak to the young woman, he told her he would get her out. He was 9 | trusted prisoner and the next day ha
 climbed to the top floor of the jaii | and cut a hole nine inches wide and
 twelve inches long through a grated
 window. Through this window Pearl
 Hart made her exit and escaped
 Her freedom was of short duration.
 however, for 12 days later she was re-
 captured, again disguised in mans
 clothing, at Deming, N. M, and taken
 back to Tucson. When brought to trial she was convicted and sentenced to | the Yuma penitentiary for five years. If Pearl Hart knew, as it is probable she did, what the real name of her confederate in the stage holdup was. she kept the information Loyalty to herself. When the prisoners were arrested the ex-prospector refused to reval his identity. and Sheriff True man went to the young woman to at tempt to learn the mans name. At the time Pearl was pulling on one of her high boots.
 Whats that mans name?" inquired sheriff
 "Joe," responded the girl
 Joe who?" asked the sheriff.
 Why, Joe Boots,' returned Pearl. with a mocking grin.
 He was indicted in that name and under it was sentenced to the peni- tentiary for 30 years. but afterwards made wonderful escape from du- rance vile. While working with a gang of convicts he made break for lib- erty An alarm was sounded and the guards turned gattling gun upon him. Nearly thousand bullets went hurlting past the fleeing prisoner, but not one reached its mark and he es- capped unhurt.
 Pearl Hart served part of her time and was afterwards paroled. She is now in Kansas City, Kan. where she owns a cigar store and makes no at
 empt to conceal her identity. She
 las reached her thirty-sixth year and 1as two children who live with their grandmother in Toledo, o. The cal of the road no longer holds any fas- ,ination for her and she leads a quiet, uneventful existence. after having
 passed through as strange and thrill
 ng a series of adventures as ever fell 10 the lot of one of her sex.