Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Train Robber Pleads Guilty. [ARTICLE]

Train Robber Pleads Guilty.

Washington dispatch: Postoffice Inspector Houk has telegraphed that Walter Strattan, alias Ben Starne, one of the highwaymen who held up an M. K. & T. train and robbed the. United States mail at Caney, I. T., has entered a plea of guilty to the charge at Antler, I. T. “He was leader of the gang,” wires the inspector, “and is an escaped convict from the penitentiary in Tennessee.”