Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — A BANDIT AT URGE. [ARTICLE]

A BANDIT AT URGE.

Chris Evans, the CaUornian Desperad* Escape;. c Chris. Evans, the celebrated train robber of California, under Ilfs sentence fox the murder of Deputy United States MarshiaFVic Wilson, in jail at Fresno, 1 Cal., awaiting transportation to the penitentiary, escaped, Thursday night, through plans laid by one Ed Morrell and Mrs. Evans. Five hundred mon started in pursuit of the fugitives as soon as possible after the escape. Several persons, have boen arrested as accomplice*- The lheriff and nearly all his deputies were decoyed from the city by a story of suspected train rob! cry. The unsuspecting jailer in charge admitted Mrs. Evans, ostensibly to visit her husband, and Morrell who was a waiter with the bandit’s supper. When the jailer answered Morrell’* call to be let out he was confronted with pistols fn the bands of both men whe compelled him to unlock the bars and let them into the street; M rs. Evans fainted and failed to get away. '