Show CAREER ENDED BY SHOT i ARION HEDGEPETH TRAIN ROB IBER BEER COMES CLOSE TO DYING tf WITH BOOTS ON cief OPINION ormer armor head of st louie louis detective force say says man stain slain by chi cabo policeman was a nat L ural criminal st louis when policeman decker chicago Clil cago fired the shot L ct et caused lie e death of marion marlon C hedgepeth he tied the career of a criminal who as as daring and desperate as any adit who ever held up a train or lew jew a bank safe the man in st louis louts who probably new ew more about hedgepeth than any ther person Is maj william des lond ond former chief of detectives and ne e of the greatest takers talkers in the antry desmond has a reputation mong ong crooks as the cleverest sweater they ever had to deal with mith billy illy as the old crooks call him ev oer er mis mistreat treaL a prisoner but he ad a way of putting them through he e third degree that brought re alts it was as a case ot of will power rith ith desmond and be he kept nagging is man until ho be bad had a P confession or ras as satisfied in hia his jovn mind that the prisoner was innocent st louis lost ie 0 best man it ever had on the po cu ce force when desmond quit so hedgepeth was killed by a po ceman said the veteran detective 1 IF ought a desperate pistol duel with the police hen informed of the bandits bandics death n chicago well I 1 expected he end that way ho ile told me once e expected to die with his boots on nd he came pretty near doing it hedgepeth edge peth was a natural criminal ile aade made all kinds of vows when gov olk released him from the penitent iary ary that he be would lead a straight life ife but I 1 had bad no confidence in him desmond wae was among those who corked up the glendale train rob robbery tery aee case against hedgepeth the job for which the desperado went to the mia nits bourl our for 13 years starting out in life a poor country youth auth and living in prairie home mo io hedgepeth became in a years ime time a criminal who terrorized the etire e west and whose name was spoken in fear and trembling up until before his death hedgepeth beth worked in a shoy shoe factory in min nea ica polls minn his ills fellow employed emp loyes knew deiv nothing of his past ho ile fought hard against the desire to return tc his former murderous exis existence fin ally it triumphed over him he ile quil quit bis his position and went to chicago and attempted the robbery of a saloon lie was caught in the act and when cornered fought a desperate pistol duel with the police A pistol shot mortal ly IY wounded him he died an hour later mother eull still lives in the little missouri village lie ile was known by the aliases of sam woods L L williams H V sanson Sf tanson marion marlon C hedspeth marion marlon da davis dais Is marion 0 hedgpeth and J C clark lie ile was 45 years old at tho the time of his death started on his career ot of crime in november 1883 w when lien he was arrested on an a charge of larceny and sentenced to seven years imprison ment in the state lar at jef jet ferson city mo he broke prison a short time afterwards but was recaptured in he ab u nb released on february 10 1892 he vaa nas ar rested in san francisco cal charged w ath robbing a train at glendale mo ato he fie r was ras as sentenced on september 28 1893 to serve a term of ab 2 years in the missouri ourt state penitentiary affet a long trial tie was pardoned Dardo ned ii ID 1906 on september 2 1907 he was ar rested at omaha neb suspected a ol 01 having been implicated in a robbery at council bluffs la in he lie was convicted and sent to the lowa iowa state prison at fg fart t madison on mar march ch 8 1903 and released reles cd after serving ono one year fifteen years ago hedgecoth hedge peth poth was a leader of the notorious wilson gang of sate safe blowers and highway men it was he who ga gave gae e tho the police the up tip which led to the arrest and conviction of 11 11 holmes the multi murderer of chicago and philadelphia |