Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — RANCE'S KIT. [ARTICLE]

RANCE'S KIT.

Au Instance of Lax Prison Discipline. The authorities of the Joliet Prison owed the well-nigh fatal assault which Rande maclt' upon them to their inexcusable carelessness. In tbe pockets of the found a sharp deadly weapon, known in the saddlery bus ness as a “eock-eye punch;” a monkey wrench, a--shoe-knife; an awl-handle, a small slate, a wooden model, bottles of oil and srlyo erine, sponges, cutton batting, a tin tube, an almanac, a comb, a oopperheaded spike, lead pencils made by himself out of harness black ing, buttons, rivets, sheets of paper with extracts of news about the James boys and Younger brothers, a pocket Bible used os a scrapbook, 10u homeopathic powders, spools of thread and pages from a book of chemistry. A Gatl.ng gun and an ammunition wagou would have completed his outfit.