Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — The “Oregon Boot.” [ARTICLE]

The “Oregon Boot.”

A decided novelty in footwear, more suggestive of utility than of comfort, is the “ Oregon Boot,” so called, with oneof which a train robber who lately ar e rived in St. Louis was manacled. Th boot weighed eighteen and a half pounds’ and a detective spent fifteen minutes in opening the combination by which it was secured to the prisoner’s foot. Thus hobbled, there would seem to be small chance for a malefactor to effect his flight from custody unless he should somehow learn the combination. Practically, he might as well be anchored, to a fire-proof-safe.—[New Orleans-Times Democrat *