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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
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THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS.
 2. 
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.
 1. 
WHISKY AND CARDS.
 2. 
BILL RYAN.
 3. 
WILLIE HILDRUM.
 4. 
S. D. HENSON.
 5. 
FORTY-EIGHT YEARS A PRISONER.
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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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10. THE SUICIDE.

A young man by the name of John Welch was sent from Stoddard County for an heinous offense, under a sentence of ten years. His family were among the best people of that county, and highly respected. John proved to be a black lamb of the flock. He had not been in prison but a few weeks when he got enough of that kind of living, and, being unable to have his resignation accepted, he concluded to end his career by committing suicide. It was on a beautiful Sunday morning, and the prisoners having been to religious services, were on their way back to their cells to spend

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the rest of the day in solitude. The chapel where the services were held is in the third story of a large brick structure. An iron stairway is attached to the wall on the outside of the building. It was down this stairway the convicts were marching, one behind the other, when John, stepping out of the door on to the stairway, instead of following his comrades down and into his cell, as he had done on former occasions, leaped out into space and fell to the ground. When he was picked up, life was extinct. He received his pardon that day, but gave his life as the ransom. No one can imagine how much this youth suffered before he brought himself to that point when he decided to make that leap into eternity.

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