Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-29 | Page 35 | 'Kid' Thompson Back in San Quentin Prison

KID THOMPSON BACK IN SA SAN QUENTIN PRISON SA SAN FRANCISCO FRACISCO May 1 28 Kid Kid Thompson who in 97 held up the Overland train and robbed the mail mall car of is back again in San Quentin penitentiary This time it is not because he had done anything wrong but because his health is broken and he is in need of hospital tre treatment Thompson now more than than- threescore three three- threescore score yea years jears rEI- rEI old was found found- in the southern part of the state in need of medical attention and ho he was sent to the state prison to remain only until he Is cured of his infirmities Thompson was a seaman on the sailing vessel captured and sunk by the German raider Leipzig Leip Leip- Leipzig zig in the South seas in the early days davs of the war His leg was broken and he has never fully recovered I The aged man was sentenced for life Ufe for the train robbery After I serving sixteen years he ho was vas as paroled He has always maintained that he I go of orthe the loot he stole from the train saying that a minister who had homesteaded the plot got the coin com comand I and escaped I