Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — RANDE’S KIT. [ARTICLE]

RANDE’S KIT.

Au Instance of Lax Prison Discipline. The authorities of the Joliet Prison owed the well-nigh fatal assault which Rande made , upon them to thelr inexcusable eurelessness. In tho pockets of Ihe desperado were found a sharp deadly weapon, known in the saddlery business as a “cock-eye punch;” a monkey wrench, a slioe-knife, an awl-handle, a small slate, a wooden model, bottles of oil and glycerine, sponges, cotton batting, a tin tube, an almanac, a comb, a copperheaded spike, lead pencils made by himself out of harness black- ■ ing, buttons, rivet 6, sheets of paper with extracts of news about the James boys and Younger brothers, a pocket Bible used as a scrapbook, 100 homeopathic powders, spoola of thread and pages from a book of chemistry. A Gatling gun and an ammunition wagon would have completed his outfit.