People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Caught in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Caught in Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. B.—James H. Stratton, the original Kid McMunn, one of the most dangerous criminals in the country, was arrested Tuesday on Jackson street neijr State by two detectives of the central station. He made an effort to escape arrest and had drawn his revolver when overpowered. Stratton escaped from the penitentiary at Canon City, Col., on the night of September 17, 1893, while serving a twenty-one-year sentence for robbing mail boxes. The postoffice department offered a reward of SSOO and the prison authorities S2OO for his return. •