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The Twin Hells

  
[title page]
  
[dedication]
  
ILLUSTRATIONS.
  
CONTENTS.
  
PREFACE.

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A KANSAS HELL
 1. 
CHAPTER I. MY INITIATION AND CRIME.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. THE COAL MINES.
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CHAPTER III. THE COAL MINES (Continued).
 1. 
PATHETIC OCCURRENCES IN THE MINES.
 2. 
THE COAL MINES A COLLEGE OF INFAMY.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. THE PUNISHMENTS OF THE PRISON.
 5. 
CHAPTER V. SUNDAY IN THE PRISON.
 6. 
CHAPTER VI SCENES IN THE HOSPITAL.
 7. 
CHAPTER VII. ESCAPES FROM PRISON.
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CHAPTER VIII. THE PRISONERS.
 1. 
FEMALE CONVICTS.
 2. 
MRS. HENRIETTA COOK.
 3. 
INDIANS IN THE PENITENTIARY.
 4. 
MALE PRISONERS.
 5. 
FREAKS OF JUSTICE.
 6. 
OH! RIGHTEOUS JUDGE!
 7. 
BOVINE TROUBLE.
 8. 
WHISKY AND WOMEN.
 9. 
EIGHT TIMES A CONVICT.
 10. 
SKILLED LABOR.
 11. 
LIFE INSURANCE AND MURDER.
 12. 
THE HOG-THIEF.
 13. 
A NOTED COUNTERFEITER.
 14. 
YELLOW BACK LITERATURE.
 15. 
A YOUTHFUL MURDERER.
 16. 
A MOST REMARKABLE CASE.
 9. 
CHAPTER IX. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN HELL.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. STOLEN HORSES.
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. A DARK HOUR.
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII. FREEDOM.
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A MISSOURI HELL.
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CHAPTER XIV. THE CONVICT'S HOME.
 15. 
CHAPTER XV. THE WORK OF THE CONVICT.
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CHAPTER XVI. THE MISSOURI PRISONERS
 1. 
THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS.
 2. 
THE PRISONER'S SENTENCE.
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CHAPTER XVII. THE MISSOURI PRISONERS—(Continued.)
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII. PRISON DISCIPLINE.
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CHAPTER XIX NOTED CONVICTS.
 1. 
WHISKY AND CARDS.
 2. 
BILL RYAN.
 3. 
WILLIE HILDRUM.
 4. 
S. D. HENSON.
 5. 
FORTY-EIGHT YEARS A PRISONER.
 6. 
NINE TIMES.
 7. 
DESPERADO JOHNSON.
 8. 
HENRY BUTLER,
 9. 
GEORGE ELLIS
 10. 
THE SUICIDE.
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CHAPTER XX. THE EX-CONVICT.

  
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5. FREAKS OF JUSTICE.

Robert W. Corey was sent from Wyandotte County with a sentence of three years for stealing cattle. This is a remarkable case. Corey is a blind man, and had been totally blind for thirteen months prior to his arrival at the prison; he was a taxidermist, and some years ago had taken a contract for furnishing stuffed birds for the museum of the Agricultural College of Ames; Iowa. This business requires the use of arsenic; carelessly handling it destroyed his eyesight. How a man, blind as he is, and was, at the commission of the alleged offense, could drive off and sell these cattle, is a mystery. The man who swore that he committed the theft is now an inmate of the institution,


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NEGRO PRISONERS.

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sent here for stealing since the arrival of blind Corey. This man now says that he is not positive that Corey took the cattle. On the trial, however, he swore it was Corey, and that he was positive of that fact! About the the truth of the matter is, he was the villain that took the cattle and swore it on the blind man. Corey has only a few months to remain in prison at this writing. It is terrible to heap such a disgrace upon as helpless a creature as Corey.

His case calls to mind another in the penitentiary. He is a colored man who cannot write, by the name of Thomas Green, from Fort Scott, serving out a five years' sentence for forging a check for $1,368. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced. Taking an appeal to the Supreme Court, the judgment of the lower court was set aside; but at his second trial, he was found guilty again, and is now in prison serving out his sentence. How can one commit the crime of forgery who cannot write? Probably some "Smart Aleck" of a district judge can explain. I admit that it is beyond my powers of comprehension. It may be law, but there is not much common sense in it.

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