The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-05
OUR ALLEGED BANK ROBBERS
HAVE MANY PRISON RECORDS
ord Discovers Quartet Held
tor the CWinner lob Is
Widely Known
TWIN SERVED SIX TERMS
III -
% May End Lives IN North
Il Dakota Prison as Habit.
: ual Criminals

- 2cn OF the 1OEr Iicn arrested OH
cesrgcs OF attempting to rob the
oe tx at Gwinncr, n. D., a month
sa has a prison record. accordin.
= data compiled by G. <. Osjord,
y { superintendent Of criminal idcn-
20 cation.
n r. Kirwin. who has tho lonccs,
IS ninal record Of the quartet. has
: yed six prison terms and has bean
= estcd several Other tines on sari-
charges.
3 ohm Mitchell has served three
y ION terms: George Smith and John
Int have served n pcl-oa ten
y h. although Gran. has BON IN Ia
'crcnt jalls Oh various charges,
g lc OF them feionies.
~ convicted OF the Gwinncr ban.:
- berry. K!rwin and Mitchell may end
X lives in the North Dakota state
= ION il the state habitual criminal
- Is applied. Under tho law any
~. convicted Of four felon!es may
e sentenced to life Improvement.
May Escape Long Tern
= )nc OF Mitchails prison terms was
= the Chicago house Of correction on
,ctit larceny charge. however. and
rs may free him from application
2 the habitual criminal act. The
- provides. however. that for a
= I'd conviction on a felony chcrSc
-. sentence may BE- Gcu5lc that o.di-
lily provided By lar.
u kirwin's record contains six aliases
y ! officials have nc cal OF know
hts real name except that he gave
name Of Fred Fcrnsdorf when he
4 was sentenced to the Eousc Of
rection in Chicago in 1906. Names
his record. III addition To KirWin
1 Tc.nsLorf. arc Trcn.s Williams.
ID Wilson. Franz. Henderson. Tom
lsOn and George johnson. His last
own cscapadc before tic Gvinncr
- 1bcry was TO jump a bail bond a.
OK Island. Ill. following his arrest
9 . charge of possessing burglar
e lis and attempted holdup. His
. con records includes tenn III
house of correction at Chicago.
2 ) at Waupun. Wis, ono at Fort
. avcnWcrth. Kan. and two ct Joliet,
Among crimes Of which h. v'a5
. lvictcd are assault 10 rob, r~ostofficc
e ,bc.y. highway robbery and safe
) wing.
q Mitchell in 3 Prisons
.litchcll served prison terms in the
. .icago house OF correction. Joliet
: son and L.avcnucrth under the
:. mes OF Thomas Dixon. Thomas
= clSscn and Herbert Vaughn. He vas
: lvicted Of petit larceny. robbery
y d im%pcrsonatin. A United States
9 icer.
9 George Smith served his DIE prison
2 RI In Walla Wal,a. Wash, for the
ne OF burglar. he WAS acquitted
= a robbery charge at Omaha III 1905
: Was fined 500 in Kansas City.
2 j, in 1918 III connection with a safe
!. Dwing. HIS record shows SIX other
9 s.sst5 under the names Of Frank
" Ills, George Hendricks. George Fec,
Y ,o-gc Thompson ard Franz: Thomp-
!. !.
= John Grant served his ono prison
m Of 10 years at Lincoln. Ncb..
q robbery charge. He vas ar
ted q Omaha, Neb.. charged with
J rider and robbery ~ was sem
I iced only on the robbery charge.
Z LETT the prison May II. 1928. He
! s been arrested at numerous places
9 Missouri. Nebraska and Iowa under
! , names Of Edward Hill. William
! Allace Ca-ey. 10. Wallace, Bill Kerr
/ I'll. James Ryan. James Gavin. VIII
b Allen, Frank Martin and Walter
sey.
Twice Escaped Jails
Irant twice has escaped from jails,
e within 20 minutes after he was
rested. In January OF this .ear he
: Is arrested or a liquor charge At
: dar Rapids, Ia, and jumped a bond
$1,000.
Kirwin's record shows that he
:apcd from the hospital for tho
sminAl insane at Menard, ILL.,. to
lich he vas transferred from Joliet
is0n.
az the quartet. Kirwin has spent
years IN prison since 1905: Mitchell
s spent six years in prison since
Is: Smith spent four years in prison
zee 1905 and Grant spent 10
ars IN prison since 1912. These
lures do not include time spent In
rious jails.