Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — Bible Causes His Capture. [ARTICLE]

Bible Causes His Capture.

lola, Kan. —Because he halted in his flight to read a bible sent him by his mother, Edward Barnes, twenty-three years old, was arrested, charged with the robbery of a railroad station at Tracy, la. Barnes was captured by Marshal Frederickson of lola as he lay reading by the roadside. He admitted having served a term in the Wyoming penitentiary for robbery “I had determined to be good,” said Barnes, “and was reading the good book mother sent me for help when the law came along and nabbed me.**