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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.
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CHAPTER IV. THE PUNISHMENTS OF THE PRISON.
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CHAPTER V. SUNDAY IN THE PRISON.
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CHAPTER VI SCENES IN THE HOSPITAL.
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CHAPTER VII. ESCAPES FROM PRISON.
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CHAPTER VIII. THE PRISONERS.
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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.
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EIGHT TIMES A CONVICT.
 10. 
SKILLED LABOR.
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LIFE INSURANCE AND MURDER.
 12. 
THE HOG-THIEF.
 13. 
A NOTED COUNTERFEITER.
 14. 
YELLOW BACK LITERATURE.
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A YOUTHFUL MURDERER.
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A MOST REMARKABLE CASE.
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CHAPTER IX. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN HELL.
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CHAPTER X. STOLEN HORSES.
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CHAPTER XI. CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. A DARK HOUR.
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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.
 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.
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FORTY-EIGHT YEARS A PRISONER.
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NINE TIMES.
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DESPERADO JOHNSON.
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HENRY BUTLER,
 9. 
GEORGE ELLIS
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THE SUICIDE.
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CHAPTER XX. THE EX-CONVICT.

  
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ILLUSTRATIONS.

  • John N. Reynolds, the Author, . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
  • The Kansas Prison, Lansing, Kas. . . . . . . 22
  • Unavoidable Misfortune, . . . . . . . . . . 28
  • Digging Coal, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
  • Dinner in the Mines, . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
  • Crushed in the Mines, . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
  • In the Dungeon, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
  • Scene in the Dining Room, . . . . . . . . . . 104
  • Dispensing Medicine, . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
  • Midnight Escape, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
  • Female Convicts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
  • Negro Prisoners, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
  • A Close Call, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
  • A Mother's Grief, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
  • Convict Funeral, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
  • The Warden's Office, . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
  • Convicts Marching, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
  • Before and After, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
  • Cell No. 19, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
  • Undergoing Punishment, . . . . . . . . . . . 296
  • Shot from the Tower, . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

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