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was just as Ctrcumspect as the most
harmless and innocent among his fell
lows, but no more so. There was
nothing in his conduct or manner to
indicate that he was any more con-
cerned by the peculiar conduct Of the
guards than the rest. He was a past
master in the art OF assembling, and
he was crafty enough to know that If
he overplayed his hand in the least
he would be marked man from then
on. He did know, however, that his
cell had been combed with scrutiniz-
ing care and that its every crevice
had been searched. No matter how
carefully the guards sought to rear
range the few contents Of this mar
row little cage and leave them just
as they had found them. Kearney
could tell at a glance just what had
been peered into.
OF course Kearney was the thief.
He procured the dynamite soon after
he was permitted to have access to
it, but just where he secreted it will
always remain unsolved, secret
which even to-day embarrasses the
prison authorities when reference is
made to it. He knew he was sus@
pected-intuition told him this-and
he also knew that IL he ever hoped
to put into execution the plot he rad
conceived the moment his eyes rested
on those sticks of dynamite he must
prove himself an actor of unusual
powers.
Confederates he did not need.
There was no task IL the world ne
undertook that he did not feo' that
he, single handed, could accomplish.
His indomitable will had stood him
in good stead many time, and now
that the crucial test was approaching
he did not intend to.be frustrated by
any false step. He also knew that
grave danger lurked in letting any
one into his secret. But there were
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enlng crash, this accompanied by n
binding flash, which filled with hor-
ror every guard and convict who be-
held 1t. Instead OF leading the Way
TO liberty Kearney stood by shouting
directions to each Of the comrades he
had let into his secret. These twelve.
were the first to make the break.
Every man Of them sped as fast as
his feet could carry him to the outer
wall, which he scaled with little or no
dlhculty. Others followed their
lead, and when at last Kearney saw
that all mad climbed to the top of the
wall he made his dash.
But he had delayed too long. AS
he broke from the line, which seen-
ingly was paralyzed with fright, for
hundreds OF the convicts stood stock
still and made no attempt at escape,
ne bounded across the court YARD.
shouting defiance at the guards, who
commanded him to halt. AS he
reached the wall he made a catlikt,
reap and reached it's top. Then he
turned again to laugh derislvely at
the guards, who were sending a fusil-
lade OF bullets in his wake. One OF
these he called by name and even
taunted on his poor marksmanship.
Apparently this last taunt cost
Ed kearney his life, for Just then
bullet landed betw 5en his eyes and
ne rolled from the top of the wall
PACK into the prison yard stone dead.
of all let into the secret Of the effort
TO escape, he alone had failed to set
MS root on soil beyond the prison
wall. Others who were ignorant of
the plot up to the very moment that
hearney set off the mine knew i'm an
instant what was afoot and took ad-
vantage Of the opportunity to fee
Dut the man who had spent weary
months in scheming to bring about
tnls very thing had paid the forfeit
with his life.
The officials of the penltentiary
are loathe to discuss that Jail deliyery
even at this late date. There was q
searching investigation instituted
and a report Of these findings was
made. But just how much the inves-
tigators learned and how much of
the report was based on supposition
is still a matter Of debate. But all
agree In asserting that had "Edu
hearney been less concerned in the
welfare OF his comrades he would
nave been the first to scale the prison
wan ana away to freedom. Instead
ne permitted sentiment to get the
Dot.er OF MIN and lost. Kearney's
impulse, say his captors, was a gen
erous and noble one, but Il cost him
his life. 'ii'
Long Successful Yegg.
Prior to his final Incarceration in
the tennessee prison Kearney had led
q most active life. Few yeggmen had
Deen as successful as he, for he never
was content to blow safe unless ne
was well satisfied that the strong box
contained either stamps or currency
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-06-25
The Ignominious Death of ED" Kear-
ney, ''Yegg" with Career of
Strange Contradictions, Who
Blew Out a Prison Wall
and Liberated His
Comrades.
Comrades.

Of these safe blowing escapades, new
ertheless there were others concern
ed in them whose identities were con-
cealed, and these were among the lit
tie details they wanted cleared up
This was made clear to Hutch" He
was told If he would supply the miss
ing links to this or that post office
or bank robbery his captors would in
tercede in his behalf and see that a
portion Of the time he yet had to
serve in Tennessee was clipped Off
They made straightaway offer of
clemenCy, the price of which, Of
course, was q confession from him.
But Kearney was made of sterner
stuff than West Philadelphia john
NY" who, in order to escape from the
Vermont penitentiary, made whole
sale confession, in which he involved
every comrade he ever had, even to
his very closest friends.
What do you think | ana
squealer?" asked Kearney "Before
I'd snitch on pal I'd let you drag
my tongue out by the roots"
And the men who pleaded with
him to save himself from long years
behind prison walls knew that he
meant what he said. Before any
thing in the way of information in
volving others could be dragged from
him they knew he would have to be
submitted to the tortures of the rack.
He told them plainly that he bore
them no malice-that he knew they
were but pursuing the routine of duty
when they approached him-but his
scorn was so genuine and so mani
fest that the detectives made their
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Herald Co. All rights reserved.)

E&xs1y3 HE name Of ED" Kear-
O. !; :: s !;
Sh>AsSA partment, or at least that
bureau which has to do
with his kind, as one Of strange con-
tradictions. Although ANONYMOUSLY
shot to death by guard when he ar
ranged and carried into successful
execution one Of the most daring and
sensational Jail deliveries ever staged,
yet he died a hero-died that those
he had schemed to free might get
clear OF the guards, whose rifles spit
flames and deadly bullets. One of
these bullets went true 70 the mark
and, entering the forehead Of this
arch-conspirator, passed clear
through his head, Clutch" dropping
in his tracks as he waved adieu to
the last of his comrades as they clam
bered over the prison wall.
Ed Kearney was an ali-round
bad man. In the language OF several
post office inspectors who had tracked
him for years, he was one Of the
worst men ever designated as yegg-
man. He was cool, calculating and
as Shrewd as the ShreWdeSt of that
little band of thief takers maintained
by the post Office department. No
matter how carefully they set their
traps to enmesh him, nine times out
of ten clutch" warily paused on the
very brink of the pitfall which had
been dug for him. In such cases he
always took pains to notify his pur-
suerS, by one means or another, that
he was full aware of the cleVerneSS
Of those camping on his trail, and
that he deeply appreciated this clev-
erness, but-well, suppose they try
again and he would go to no end Of
trouble to pull off some trick which
would make it worth their while to
redouble their efforts to take him.
That was the man who gave his life
for his comrades. Bad at heart and
as INSCRIPTIONS as it was possible
for man to be, yet there was an
innate love Of fair play-perhaps a
sporting instinct-about him which
endeared him to friend and foe alike.
Even those who spent years in pursu-
inc him-oftcn risly'r" thci~ tvoT ~
The uN2SC--Si&A when they mention
his name, and after telling Of his
vi"jonS traits alwaNs conc clUac with
@..N D., % ,st MI
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belonged 10 CID School.

In the many tales Of the lawless-
ness Of the wild and wolly West we
read OF the gun fighters who always
cut notch in the stock Of their rifle
or pistol for every man they killed.
Some say that if Ed" Kearney had
kept such a record there wouldn't
have been anything left Of his pistol
grip, for it would have been nicked
to a chip. Just how many he killed
the records do not show, but it Is
recorded that he would shoot at
sight if he was in danger of capture
and that many times he shot them
when no such peril confronted him.
Kearney belonged to the old school
OF ,yeggmen. Those of to-day are
termed amateurs in comparison by
post Office inspectors. His confreres
were such men as Frisco SLIM
the original "Frisco SLIM that Is
. for there are half a dozen Of the
younger generation filled with such
veneration for the deeds Of this arch
crook that they glory in assuming
his .sobriquet. "Sheeny" Harris was
another of his pals" as were Dub
lin Ned" Goat" Hinch and "Whi-
:tey" Sellers. The last two died in
the electric chair in Dannemora pris-
ON for numbering the watchman Of a
bank at tQ0bleskill, N. Y, after they
had blown the vault and were escap-
ing with their plunder. Kearney was
in that affair, too, but he escaped the
chair.
With "Friseco Slim" and several
other yegg celebrities KeGrney rob-
bed the post office at Rockaway, N.
j. The townspeop)e were awakened
by the report Of the blast Of nitro
glycerine "Slim" and Kearney set off
when they attacked the post Office
safe. a running fight followed,
scores Of shots were interchanged,
but the yeggmen eluded capture for
the time being, and leaving many Of
the bullet-riddled posse lying in the
town streets they fed.
This robbery created intense eX-
element, and the mere fact that
Kearney and "Slim" were concerned
in it was sufficient incentive for the
postal authorities to detail the very
best men they had in the department
to apprehend the thieves. The chase
was long and arduous, but Kearney
was at last caught off his guard, nap
ping as it were, and locked up.
Offer of CIemency.
A search OF the records showed
that Hutch" had fled from the Ten
neSSc penitentiary with fifteen and a
half years Of his term unserved. The
postal authorities figured that it
would be better to return him to Ten
nessee, for they could not hope to get
as long term for him for the Rock
away job. Then, too, they could hold
this offense against him and when his
term expired in Tennessee he could
be rearrested and brought to New
Jersey for trial for the Rockaway
robbery. This would mean that he
would be an old man when his accu-
mulated sentences had been served
and he would be far less dangerous
than at the time of his arrest
There were many other crimes
standing against Kearney, and some
OF these were, in way, unsolved.
While the post office inspectors we're
positive Kearney had been the brains
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-09

day, 1t probably caused q good deal
of trouble to the recipients of the
letters which had come in contact
with the golden cane juice. Also it
was warning to those who might
be tempted to send "moonshine" in
the same manner.
One doesn't realize the breadth Of
American hunkeyism till it looks at
photographs of thousand or so free
born Americans standing in the snow
and slush for hours. waiting for the
opportunity to shake the hand of
man who is bored to death, and
shows it. Under the head of "The
Presidents Reception" it looks very
lmpressiYe-on picture postcard.
r
Needless to say, Mr. Castro thinks
our reputation for hospitality is sad
ly overdraWn, and he has assured
us that he wouldn't land here now
it he could. But, by and large, a
few of us would like to know just
what wire-pulling was done to keep
him out, when one thinks of the for
eign noblemen who are permitted
not only to land, but to marry into
some of our most dollared folks.
The religionists at Zion City, I'll.
may have all sorts of high jinks
when it comes to the religious OBJ
seryance of their cult, but the SUI
preme Court of the State has ruled
that orthodox medical aid must be
called for all who are i'll in the COM
munity. For little babies who are
teething, and who have not yet
learned of the supremacy of mind
over matter, this is wise move on
the part of the Court
A gentleman who is greatly inter-
ested in the sugar (Which means
that he is making coolies of money
out of the tariff on sugar. deplores
the efforts of any one to lift the
tariff from that necessary article,
and presents an appalling list of
what it will mean in the way of loss.
IS all right-but little old Ultimate
Consumer knows he will get more
sugar for dime than he gets now,
and the pocket book Of the u C. is
of more Importance to him than the
bank account of the man who is do
ing the worrying over the lifting Of
the tariff on sugar.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-09

The express companies are worry
ing at the terrific losses the Govern
ment is going to sustain through the
operation of the Parcels Post. Such
thoughtfulness is enough to make
the Angels see things.
The usual vaudeville performance
known as the White House New
Years reception was pulled off ac-
cording to schedule, and the Wash
ington doctors will reap their usual
harvest in the cases of pneumonia
which always result.
Mexico seems to be varying the
opera bOuffe war which has been go
ing on there for SO long, by Pemov-
ing a few undesirable Americans un-
der the guise of courts martial, and
it will lessen in this way the Ameri-
can claims for indemnity.
New York did its best to disgust
the New Year, with it's usual mode
of welcome" and with the strike
of the hotel walters on the side, its
a wonder the New Year didn't side
step the job and lope back TO the
Whenceness it came out of.
Oh well, the only thing we may
look for now in further develop
ment of the mail service is for the
Department to equip the mail men
with flying machines and enable
them to drop the days groceries in
the back yard as they fly over.
The daily papers continue to re-
cord the hurried exit of human be-
ings who had taken a chance in buy
ing railroad ticket, but who went
through ITO the Great Beyond, via
broken rails, weak bridges and rot
ten ties. The sea has not claimed
as many victims in the past year, as
the railroads.
Mr.. Stead, the distinguished
writer who went down with the I'll
tanic is, we are told by his daughter,
busily at work in the Spirit Land
for Universal Peace, and this knowl-
edge will put a crimp in the desires
of many Of the newspaper folk to go
to Glory, if one has to be on the job
as one is here.
Our idea Of a cast iron cinch in
the shape of job is to be appointed
as life saver on coast that is as
safe as a church and which is
guarded by lighthouse and a coast
free of rocks. And there be many
such Jobs in the South which a lot
of Yankees seem to have cast iron,
strangle holds on.
When that jug of "long -sweeten-
min burst in the mails the other
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-09

more than usually proud of.
a It has rallied in remarkably
short time from disaster that would
have made an ancient city a thing
only of history. 1t has developed
race of citizens who really stand for
what We have long been pleased to
style typical American" but we
have had pitiful few of that type
in many parts Of the Union.
With her reconstruction finished
and a finer, grander city than the
old was, it is a source of genuine re-
gret that those who have the well
fare Of the city at heart should have
been prevailed on to have inaugu-
rated the Exposition which is sched-
uled for 1915. Of course we are
supposed to be aware of the fact
that history is to be commemorated,
and that the value Of the exposition
on this ground will be incalculable.
This is a fallacy. There is not a
single city which has been the scene
of an exposition, as we have come
to understand the word, which has
derived benefits sufficient to Offset
the evils which have come, and the
train of vices which have been left in
their wake, and the enormous num-
Der of truly undesirable citizens
which have been human fotsam
from God-knows-where, but which
have added nothing of worth to the
cities they have graced with their
presence.
1t is a peculiar fact that, in the
preparation for these modern expo
sitions, while the buildings and the
educational feature of the exhibit
tons are remarkable, there is a dis
tinct and commercialized under
standing that there are other fea-
lures which will prove of greater
value to those who have the under
taking under way, and we are GER
tain to see the same sensual, ques-
tionable concessions" at the San
Francisco Exposition, that were so
prominent and paying a feature of
the Chicago Exposition, the Buffalo
Exposition and the one at st. Louis.
Human nature is the same every
where and all the time. People who
are eminently respectable at home,
will so to q strange city and do
things which would give them ap-
poplexy of the conscience, should
they even think of doing them at
home.
1t isn't always in funny papers"
that Deacon Hardtack is caught in
places he has no business to be-
Many a hard headed old codger who
walks the straight and narrow way
at home, will pack q paper collar
and a clean handkerchief in his grip
and sally forth to an exposition,
with the avOwed intention of "see-
ing it all"-and he does.
He sits in a place where half nude
women dance and posture in such a
manner as to make what few gar
ments they wear mockery, and he
is half ashamed while he watches it
all. He goes to other places where
his mind is infamed by pictures,
dances and drinks that would give
him the horrors to even think of
''back home"
The Exposition proper? Sure, he
has seen it. Don't you see all the
"sooveeneers' he is taking back for
Mandy and the girls?
But will that man ever be the
same? And what of the younger
men and women to whom all this is
as novel as the first sin of our Eden
ancestors?
No one who has ever been in a
large city during one of these Expo
sitions, can take exception to what
is here set forth.
Thew COuId bo made Of almost in
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-09

can Characterization Is over them,
and they must be made to "pay" be-
fore the thought of their being made
to instruct has been planned for.
More and more we are becoming
a reckless people, and it will not be
long before we will be as jaded a
people as those of the countries
whose vices we regard as so fascinat-
ing.
The concessions of all these large
exposition are eagerly bought by
syndicate of entertainers, and they
as successfully peddle them out to
the Orientals and those of other ma
lions who are eager to make profit
on what is custom in their country,
but which is vice simply, in ours.
The horrors of the notorious Cou-
chee-COuchee dance are not forgot
ten by some of us who unwittingly
saw it; in the country of it's birth,
the dance is perfectly legitimate
and would not be viewed by a con-
glomerate mass of people, such as
view it when it is part of show"
at an exposition. In the countries
of it's origin it is a part of the be-
trothal ceremony and as such would
be viewed by the guests hidden to
the wedding feast AS such, and
having been viewed hundreds of
times by them, the interest would be
about as keen as that of the average
American at recitation of Patrick
Henry's speech, or the Declaration
of independence.
But-flll tent or building
with conglomerate mass of human
ity, of the sort that an exposition
draws; let young men and young
women be together while that las
civious dance is being performed
with all it's Oriental abandon-and
would you personally, care to be re-
sponsible for any of the conse-
quences?
This is only one of the phases of
the modern exposition. You may
look over the police records of any
Of the cities during the time an ex-
position has been in progress, and
another phase will be shown to you.
San Francisco will not be again
the City Beautiful for some time af-
ter she has swept away the last ira
ces of her coming Exposition, and
there will be scars and marks deep
er than those left by the earthquake,
but they will not shoW-for they will
be on the minds and the hearts of
many Of her citizens, young and old.
The Parcels Post was one of the
best New Years gifts old Uncle Sam
my could have given his affectionate
children.
Many a man feels that he could
write a prize essay on the Safe and
Sane Manner of Keeping Christmas
by Obliterating Gift-giving.
Some Of the Good Resolutions
which were trotted out on the first
Of the year looked so good from
their long rest, the owners put 'em
away again for another long rest.
There will be a lot of praying and
trust in faith-cure methods among
some of the Office holders who have
been in so long that they had gotten
the impression of being Government
fixtures.
Eggs at SIS a piece are on sale in
New York, but remembering the
kick he made on the high price of
oysters, its a safe bet that Jawn D.
isn't getting any for his morning
omelettes.
To a mere man the average cos
conp on mNpoop cnoToo CHM
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THE EVIL AFTER EFFECTS OF
THE MODERN EXPOSITION.

Z HE city of San Francisco is
one the average American is
more than usually proud of.
! 1t has rallied in a remarkably
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-05-02
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a5 oVVkkN21AS&v ss
April 49, Clara Ronelle nfitsch drove
to Royalton on business Tuesday.
Mrs. /. Ronellenftsch left for Mime
apolis Tuesday where she viii visit
among relatives and friends . few
days. q. q !.
Jake Poster, Albert Faust and Adam
Mueller were out fishing Monday. They
reported q poor catch. Somehow the
fish don's run this year.
Ludwig Gaken and wife will soon
leave for Montana where they will
settle ION farm. u
The village Of Buchanan made .
donation Of $50 TO- our base ball nine
Monday. ; II
John Schmolke left for st. Cloud
Monday on business. He will return
Thursday. ',p
L. M. Jacobs and Adam Mueller were
county seat visitors Monday.
Peter Blake drove to Royalton in his
auto Monday.
F. E. suess took So tubs Of butter to