Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1902 — Mysterious Convict. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Convict.

A week or ten days ago Supt. G. K. Lowell, of the Monon, received irom a convict in the Colorado penitentiary, giving his name as William Collins, a lady’s handsome burnt leather shopping bag, asking him to dispose of it, which he did by turning it over to the railroad men, who sold the satchel to the highest bidder for over >2O. This fund will be forwarded to the prisoner. In Colorado, it seems, When a convict Is paroled he or his friends must provide him with a new suit of clothes. Collins was formerly a train dispatcher and evidently worked on the Monon at some time under a different name.

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