Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-29

fresh water, for the movement Of wa.
ter through the lake will be slow, ow.
ing to the presence Of the sand and
salts that fill the basin.
CASE OF BLACK BART.
Noted Outlaw May Be Released From
Prison.
The law enacted by the Michigan
Legislature last winter, which extend.
the benefits Of the parole law to con.
victs undergoing life sentence, will. il
Is confidently expected, says a Mar
quette, Michigan letter. enable Ray
mond Holzhay, more widely known as
BLACK Bart" life prisoner with q
sensational criminal record, to obtain
his release on parole from the Mar
quette prison, where he has spent
nearly twenty-three years Of his life
for murder. Holzhay. who has been
model prisoner for many years, ex-
poets that under the new law his SEN
tence will be commuted to one Of for
ty years and that he will be released
on parole shortly after the commuta-
tion of his sentence.
Holzhay's career was extremely SEN
sational and interesting from a crimi-
biological 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
tendencies. He was still in his teens
when he began to work in Wisconsin
"pineries." The life Of lumberman
did not satisfy Holzhay's adventurous
nature. He decided to become a ban
dit and began his criminal career by
holding up a stage coach in the lum-
er district.
His success was encouraging and
Holzhay, 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 as
tonishing. While lodging the officers
of the law who were pursuing him,
BLACK Bart" walked boldly into lum-
ber camps asking for food and obtain
ing 1t, no man being willing to take
the risk of making an attempt to seize
the outlaw.
After a while, finding the robbing OF
stage coaches too tame, Holzhay took
to holding up trains and for consid-
cradle period he terrorized the whole
northern Wisconsin and Michigan,
holding up railroad trains and stage
coaches, robbing the passengers and
rifiing the mail bags and employing
his time between the bigger coups by
robbing banks, stores and private
houses. Large rewards were offered
for his capture by the government.
the state authorities and the railroads,
but nobody seemed to have courage
enough to earn the reward.
After having held up and robbed
Wisconsin Central train near Cadott,
Holzhay went to the Gogebic region
where he held up a stage coach near
Lake Gogebic. One Of the passengers
was a Chicago banker, named A. E.
Fleischbein, who carried consider
able amount Of money. The banker
drew his gun, but before he could
make use of It, Holzhay shot and kill
ed him. Another passenger also tried
to resist, but Holzhay shot him also
and after having robbed his victims,
he made his escape. The authorities
made a determined effort to capture
the daring bandit, but although blood
hounds were used to follow his trail,
no trace of him could be found.
Five days later however Marshal
Glade and Justice Weiser saw Holz-
hay In one Of the streets Of the town
of Republic and arrested him. He
tried to make use Of his gun, but was
knocked down and overpowered be-
fore he could do so. He was brought
to Marquette and was positively iden-
tilted as the man who had killed
Fleischbein. Holzhay was tried. con-
victed and sentenced to Marquette
prison for life. During the first year
of his Imprisonment Holzhay gave
great deal Of trouble to the prison au-
thorities. He was moody and REBEL
lious and not inclined to submit to the
prison rules and discipline. On one
occasion he obtained possession or
knife andd held one Of the guards at
bay in his cell when he came to take
the prisoner to work. Warden Tomp-
kins came to investigate and shot Hol-
zhay through the hand In which ne
held the knife. Not until then did the
prisoner submit.
Holzhay remained untractable and
finally he was sent to the asylum for
the insane at Iona, where the doctors
decided to perform an operation on
the prisoner to remove a piece OF bone
which pressed upon his brain. The
operation WAS SucCeSoiui anu oisS
return to prison Holzhay was
changed man. He became a model
prisoner, began to study and gradual
ly acquired a good education. Through
the warden, who took great interest
fl him, Holzhay invested his earnings
IA copper stock and accumulated a
handsome fortune. He was made the
librarian of the prison, edited the pris-
on paper and did all the photograph
ic work required. 1t is believed that
the operation on his brain has trans
formed Holzhay into a moral ana
law-abiding individual, free from
criminal tendencies.
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