The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-24
TO Be FREE AFTER
23 YEARS|N PRISON
BLACK Bart" Cured of Criminal
Tendencies by an Oper-
alton.

! Marquette, Mich, March cs.-The low
enacted by the State Legislature last
[ winter, which extends tine benefits of
the parole to convicts undergoing life
sentence. will. II is confidently expect
ed, enable Raymond Holzhay. mora
widely known as BLACK Bart" q life
prisoner with n sensational criminal
record, to obtuin his release on parole
from the Marquette prison, where he
has spent nearly twenty-thrce years
OF his life for murder. iolzhay, who
has been a model prisoner for many
years. expects that under the NV law
ms sentence VIII be committed to one
OF forty years. and that he will be
released on parole shortly after the
Communication OF his sentence.
Holidays career was extremely sem
satlonal and interesting from Grim
theological point of view He was born
in Austria and came to the United
states when quite young. But little
is known of his early life. scarcely more
than that he was illiterate. of great
physical strength and courage. and
had strongly developed criminal ten
denotes. He was still In his teens
when he began to work in the Wiscon
sin pineries. The life OF lumbcrman
did not satisfy Holidays adventurous
nature. and began his criminal career
pF holding up u stage coach in the
lumber district.
His success was encoura ging, and
Holiday. single handed, held up and
robbed coach after coach. until the
mere mention of his name struck ter
ror to the hearts of travellers in the !
lumber region. His boldness was
astonishing. While lodging officers of
the law who We're pursuing him, Black
Bart walked boldly into the lumber
camps. asking for food and obtaining
It, no man being willing to take the
risk of making an attempt to seize the .
outlaw.
Wanted More Excitement.
After while, finding the robbing of
stage coaches too tame, Holzhay took
10 holding up trains. After having
held up and robbed a Wisconsin Cen
trail train near Cadott. Holiday went
to the Gogebic region. where he held
up stage coach near Lake Gog4bic.
one OF the passengers was a Chicago
banker named a. L. F1eischbcln, who
carried considerable amount Of
money. The banker drew his gun, but
before he could make use of it Hol-
Ebay shot and killed him. Another
passenger also tried to resist, but liol- /
Ebay shot him also, and after having
robbed his victims he made his escape.
Five days later, however. Marshal /
Glade and Justice Weiser saw Holzhay !
In one of the streets of the town OF !
Republic, and arrested him. He tried
to make use OF his guns, but was
Knocked down and overpowered be-
fore he could do So Holzhay was
tried. convicted. and sentenced TO Mar
quette prison for life. During the first
year Holiday was moody and rebel
hous. and not inclined TO submit to
prison rules and discipline
HOLIDAY remained untractablo and |
hnally he was sent to the asylum for
the insane a Ionia, where the doctors
decided to perform an opera ton on
the prisoner to remove piece of bkne
which pressed upon his brain. The
operation was successful. and afte: his
return TO prison HOLIDAY was n
changed man. He became model
prisoner, began 10 study and grad
ually acquired a good education
Through the warden, who took great
interest in him. HOLIDAY invested his
earnings in copper stock and accumu-
lated handsome fortune. He was
made the librarian of the prison. /
edited the pri> on paper and did ali
the Photographic work required II
Is believed that the operation on his
brain has transformed Holzhay into
normal and law-abiding individual.
free from criminal tendencies