The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-11-02
FAMOUS BANDIT
MAKES ESCAPE
ATLANTA, GA.-special.-rhe Con
ON prints the following:

49, on prints the following:
- atch old Bill Miner!"
Straight from the prison farm at
Milledgeville, that message. brief but
comprehensive, has been flashed
around the world.
And when the announcement was
'made that Old Bill Miner had once
more shaken behind him the dust of
prison walls, human bloodhounds in
every section Of the country, from the
far Canadian border down through
the Southwest, and even into Mexico,
were set on his trail.
| For Bill Miner is a wanted man.
| They wanted him in Canada when
Bill got twenty years in the Georgia
| pen for holding up fast Southern
| passenger train near Gainesville a
| few months ago. They wanted him
| hrst Tor holding up a passenger train
on the Canadian Pacific Railroad. and
| they wanted him again for breaking
Jail after he had been sentenced to a
number of years in the penitentiary
| at New Westminster, Is. g.
| But that's not all.
Wanted for HoIdups.
Bill Miner is wanted in several
| parts of Canada and similar exploits
And also he is wanted in the far
| Northwest of this fair land for hav-
ing pushed his handy gun in the face
of some man or men who had the
coin"
Bin Miner has always been a man
Somebody asked Bill one day if he
| ever cracked a safe.
Meaning me?" inquired Bill in an
injured tone. Not much; 1 don't
| fancy that kind of work It's me for
| the straight game of flashing the
! fortN-four and getting ii if you can.
| None of tins inside work for me-"
When Bill was caught red-handed
| I'm his last cscapade for holding up a
Southern train near Gainesville he
gave this excuse:
Well. 1 had with me a couple OF
cubs; they didn't know the game.
| They gave me away. They got the
! money and l got the hook They
! WEIGHED. Leave me alone, and no
| man. nor any set of men, can put
\ thelr hands on me. Bill Miner knows
| the game, and he will never be taken
Send me to Jail If YOU want to. Judge.
but L won't stay. They have never
! built prison walls that could hold me.
ana they have never yet found the
man who could take me when L get
out"
Old Bill qualified that last state
ment. He said they could never get
| him when he had fair start
Will He Make Good?
And the question now is. viii Old
Bill Miner be as good as his wordY
The strongest prison walls in Canada
have failed to hold him. He has
laughed at the jails i'm America and
has made prison wardens look foolish.
Every time he has been sent up" he
has left them all behind.
Now will he come through this
last time? Will he foil every effort
TO recapture and will the world be
startled again some morning with this
announcement in the papers:
The fast passenger train on the B.
\. was held up and robbed last
night few miles north Of SQueedunk
A lone bandit turned a red light on
and when the train slowed down he
went through the crowd. A posse is
on his trail, but there is small chance
of overtaking him, as the highway
man has succeeded wonderfully in
covering up his tracks"
That's Old Bill Miner.
Many on His Track.
But Bill Miner, for the first time
in his life, has this problem staring
him in the face:
The Southern Express Company Is
on his track
Talk Of The Hound Of the Basker-
Vlile! Even as that famous sleuth
was a perpetual nemesis of evildoers.
so is the Southern Express Company
Go where you will; seek the most Sc
cluded spot that this mundane sphere
affords, and sometime or another one
OF those alert agents of that alert
band will lay his hand upon your
shouldn't may be years and years
and years removed, but sometime II
will happen, and sometime those fatal
words will be whispered in your ears
Come with me-"
The Southern Express COMPANY
event as old Bill Miner, will make
good its threat.
This company has offered a reward
OF $500 for the recapture of Miner
Why? Because Miner held nm ana
robbed a train on which was several
thousands of that companys money
That's the answer. They don't like
for that to happen. Ii sets a bad ex
ample. Somebody else might trv IL
True. somebody might bungle the lob.
but there's no telling when a young
Bill Miner may crop out again.
And so that's why Old Bill is I'M
against it. They are looking for him
now, and just as sure as fate they'll
get him. old Bill played his last
card and his best one when he got
sick" and had himself transferred
from the roads of Newton county to
the prison farm at Milledgeville The
weight of his seventy-odd years Will
tell on him, and then-the Southern
Express Company is after him. Don't
forget that.
Bill Miners Description.
Here is an accurate description of
old Bill" as given out by the South
ern Express Company.
He is siXty-nine years of age: looks
to be about sixty. Has light chestnut
halr, slate colored eyes, medium fair
complexion, some freckles, weighs
about $50 pounds, slender build, nose
mas convex shape, feet 8 - inches
tall Has a female figure in tattoo:
also heart pierced by an arrow i'm
TATTOO on arms; also a small seal
loped tattoo at the base of one of his
thumbs; also a star in tattoo below
the left knee. He has a small mole
under his left eye; also small mole
on the left side of his nose; also a
brown mole on front of right Shout
der. Sometimes wears moustache
Notify j. 3. Hockaday, general
manager, Southern Express Company.
Atlanta, Ga"
What's i'm a Name.