Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-07-24 | Page 8 | Train Bandit Pleads Poverty as Cause

TRAIN BANDIT PLEADS POVERTY AS CAUSE SAN FRANCISCO July uly LM After I. After deliberating de- de liberating ten minutes a Jury In Superior I Judge Jud e Dunnes Dunne's court returned a verdict of or guilty yesterday against James S S. S Hogue with holding up p passengers pa on a Southern at the out outskirts of ot San Francisco May fRY 11 lie will be sentenced sentenced sen sen- Sa Saturday Vogue took tho the witness stand in his own oun defense defonse Ho He acknowledged his hla own guilt and told o of conditions of ot poverty In his home homo that prompted the crime In Ina a revolver er battle with with passengers and railroad detectives that tho t followed followed hIs hla attempt attempt at at- at tempt he had ho lie testified taken care not to shoot at a vital Ital spot The Tits tide turning against him he attempted sui sul- cide olde Hogue was vas formerly a a. railroad man no During the tho holdup his wife tre and chit I were in their little cottage directly head on the top of or a hill pierced b tunnel where Rogue Houe climbed a aboard boa re retrain train