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Show TWO STAGE ROBBERS CAUGHT, Key Are Typical California Rond Ag nt and Have Bad Records. Two desperate California stage robbers have been captured iu Chicago. Bothr.ro stained with crime, and one is an assassin. They are Charles H. Thorn, alias Dorsey, aliaa Moore, alias George IL Leo, and George Shinn, alias Joe Thompson. The arrests were effected by a special tigenf of the Wella-Fargo Express company and a 0. H. THORN. GEOllfl F. fit INN. number of Pinkerton detectives. Tii. iii completed a third term in the California state prison for stage robljery in lss. lie then promised reformation, a pniiiis . he did not keep, for the next year lie and a man named Patterson "held up'' a si.',;;? near Morris Flats, Cal,, and killed one of tbe passengers. In 1333 Patterson was can .'lit. at .r. Louis, taken to California arid Imr.'.r.M. Shortly after Thoru was arrested r.t I i;i::i City, Ind., and though lie was proven r i i.e. the actual murderer he got a. hit it lnsteadof the death penalty. Iiil.'.-sT Iliorn, in company with Shiun, who - fifteeu years for wrecking and d' ' i eat press traiD, escaped. Xo trac.! oi t ii:i was foupd until a few tveeks '. v !.,.; two stages were robbed by thftn a; .'.r.-.n-i.-; Flats. The authorities p;vs.-ed lot on their trail and finally located them ;c tm-cago. |