The courier-index., 1917-11-09
RIVAL JESSE JAMES,
SAY THE OFFICERS
THRILLING ADVENTURES OF
TuREE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN
eeceNTLY ARRESTED IN TEN
NEsssEE.

y,oxville. Tenn, Nov. 3.-Rivaling
u. aynloits of Jesse James were the
tno Lining experiences and adventures
W Walter Blevins, alias Walter Cur
o. alas Walter Dean, who has just
10 ua.r taken from this city to Ana
nda Mont, by Montana officers
sYmed with requistion papers from
Governor T. c. of Tennessee, issued
:. the request of the governor of
Montana. Blevins will be placed on
tr;aI at anaconda charged with MUIR
ser and highway robbery, and Mon
Una officers here assert that his SEN
sstional career as an outlaw will end
an the gallows at Anaconda.
Pleyins belonged to the famous
Harvey Logan clan, according to a
letter now in the possession of Unit
cd states Attorney w. T. Kennerly
~ Knoxville, said to have been writ
ION nv Blevins. He was as clever
ss the burglar Raffles, as shown by
the fact that once, while officers
had an eve on him, hetook a small
wire used to clean his pipe and
onaned the lock on his handouts.
Under plasters in his back were
small saws and files, and he also
had tools to cut prison bars in his
holt Numerous times he has proved
that prison bars are no barrier to
his liberty.
Investigation by secret service
men. postoffice inspectors and other
federal officers at Knoxville has dis
closed deeds and crimes attributed
10 Blevins which are unparalleled in
the most popular Diamond Dick"
and Nick Carter" stories. And yet,
they say, they have not learned half
his story as desperate. He cover
ed up many OF his crimes with ex-
traordinary cunning.
Gold nuggets were stolen in Alas
ka by Blevins and on this charge
and Jail breaking at Juneau, Alaska,
he was sentenced to the federal
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth by
the territorial court in Alaska.
He was released from Leavenworth
prison on October is. 1916. He then
went to Chattanooga and worked for
two or three weeks as a structural
steel worker on the volunteer State
Life building. He quit that job
about the middle of November, 1916,
and visited his parents, who, 1t is
said, lived about ten miles above
Johnson City.
For two months he remained In
upper east Tennessee. During that
time the postoffice at Johnson City
was entered, the vault therein, as
we'll as the large safe inside the
vault, were blown open with nitro
glycerine and nearly $4,000 in post
age stamps and several hundred
dollars in money stolen. A short
time thereafter the postoffice at
Piney Flats was broken into. Sus-
picion attached to Blevins. although
the postoffice authorities had no d.
rect proof of his connection with
this robbery.
In the latter part of February, 1917,
Blevins left east Tennessee and re-
turned to Montana, where he had
lived for several years before going
to the penitentiary. While in Mon
tana he was arrested by state au-
thOrities on a minor charge and was
given six months in Jail. While in
Jail at Malta. Mont, he made his
escape, in connection with two men.
who it is claimed were western
highwaymen.
Shortly after his escape from jail
in connection with these men and
another party, he went to Anaconda,
and while at Anaconda this quartette
held up 10 or Is automobiles on
highway about three miles from
Anaconda. These machines were
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