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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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2. BILL RYAN.

Passing through the cell houses, I was shown the room occupied by the notorious Bill Ryan for seven years. He was a member of the James boys' gang. Being convicted of highway robbery he was sent to the prison for twenty years. After Jesse James had been killed by young Ford, and Frank's crimes had been pardoned, Ryan's sentence was commuted to ten years, and after serving seven he regained his liberty.

Ryan was accredited with being one of the best prisoners in the penitentiary. On the outside, if reports be true, he was one of the most desperate men in Missouri. His time was spent in drinking, gambling, quarreling, fighting and killing. He is charged with killing a number of men. He was twice tried for murder, but proving an alibi, the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty." The prison officials speak in the highest terms of his conduct while an inmate of the penitentiary. He was an obedient and hard-working convict. Now that he is once more a free man it is to

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be hoped that he will show himself as good a citizen on the outside, as he was on the inside, of prison walls.

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