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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.
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A MOST REMARKABLE CASE.
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CHAPTER IX. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN HELL.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. STOLEN HORSES.
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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.
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CHAPTER XV. THE WORK OF THE CONVICT.
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CHAPTER XVI. THE MISSOURI PRISONERS
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THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS.
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THE PRISONER'S SENTENCE.
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CHAPTER XVII. THE MISSOURI PRISONERS—(Continued.)
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CHAPTER XVIII. PRISON DISCIPLINE.
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CHAPTER XIX NOTED CONVICTS.
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WHISKY AND CARDS.
 2. 
BILL RYAN.
 3. 
WILLIE HILDRUM.
 4. 
S. D. HENSON.
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FORTY-EIGHT YEARS A PRISONER.
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NINE TIMES.
 7. 
DESPERADO JOHNSON.
 8. 
HENRY BUTLER,
 9. 
GEORGE ELLIS
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THE SUICIDE.
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CHAPTER XX. THE EX-CONVICT.

  
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4. S. D. HENSON.

This convict was at one time county judge of Stoddard County, and highly respected. He is one of the finest appearing men I ever saw. His finely shaped head bespeaks intelligence. It is sad to see such grand looking specimens dressed in the garb of disgrace. Judge Henson became involved in a quarrel with one of his neighbors over some trivial

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matter, and killed him. His sentence is for twenty years, which for him at this advanced age means death in the prison. Great efforts are being put forth for his pardon, but it is a question left entirely with the governor, and no one can tell how he may act.

Judge Henson is not at heart a criminal. On that open countenance there is no mark of Cain. Thinking of his sad case, more than ever am I convinced that we are creatures of circumstances. How many of my readers, had they in the past, been surrounded by the same circumstances, subject to the same temptations, would not have acted in the same manner, and like judge Henson found a home in a convict's cell.

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