Show OF RIME RIM 10 ina U CW ceplo ts of luther shear have earned for him the title of the greatest criminal of his tim of an aristocratic demily the th life story ory of I 1 shear who by far la Is the greatest criminal ri minal or of the i astary in 1 one on that read reads like a romance natural Isa tural shrew shrewdness duess and buel busl ability coupled with a pleasing ani a 1 almost irresistible personality are he the main factora factors of hie his success 84 1 ills talents were direct 1 I into a crooked channel at an early age KC and it Is that he will ill lit dit in sing bias sing w without suffering any compunctions ot of conscience for he the de spread misery an I 1 ruin that his propensities Nr wrought ought in i 1 rief the following la is a history ot of the IN ite of luther bhear born igsa divinity student 1859 soldier A 0 v als 4 JN rs X 01 escaped fron from prison 1864 sentenced to be hanged 1961 1 on gallows an I 1 escaped irom from jail uca filibuster and pirate in mexico 1166 stole a carload ot of miller in texas 1167 inherited IE 68 fishier of national bank 1870 74 P pardoned ned by hayes 1877 1677 newspaper proprietor 1877 it sing sing five yeara years 1683 sue in merchant erchant at atlanta georgia convict albany penitentiary two years convict auburn prison two years 1191 1194 general manager building and I 1 oan company syracuse 1806 convict west virginia penitent vary 18 19 months 1301 1201 money chiefly the latter I 1 uther shear wa was born in albany N Y and in 1853 located in new city on fast fourteenth street ills father organized the first news com pany in the united states the shears also ran the first special newspaper train in this country and they speed lly ily rose in wealth and social standing the youth was taught by tutors and went to the then aristocratic academy of W 11 held reid at newburg N Y in 1863 1853 in he went to the cal college of amherst and subsequently to dartmouth but on the breaking out of the civil war he be returned home and put aside the idea of the church for or that of arms and en listed with the ninth N Y S N 0 G lor three months lie ile enlisted reenlisted re lo 10 tor the war in the eighth regiment he ile took part in the cavalry duel due between the brigades of fitzhugh lee and averill at kelly a tord and was wounded in three places ae ft head bead groin and ankle and was mustered out this event p ended shears honorable career upon the claim trade by his family that the wound on UP ft head made him insane he escaped the gallow gallows to which be he i had been condemned for the murder of two guards while he in prison awaiting trial fai 01 desertion from the I 1 army his ills sentence of death was commet ed to tea ton years imprisonment but an unsuspected visitor brought him money mone and flies and releasing himself J ferk fe rk A e escaped biorn mexicans 1888 iron from bis his chain by night he be cut a X tunnel leading down four feet ahn an incline sixteen feet under the wall and abren upward seven feet T ws was win ter time and to cut the frozen earth he fastened candle candles to bli wash bas basin in and melted the crust over him thee he shoved his pillow out of the hole hate so that any watchful guard might shoot at it and finding it unobserved fol loved lowed himself he lie had bad taken bis his out clothing off and found that his hi underwear car wa was a ma a of wet raud from the earth anil anti snow melted by kis his lip II 11 dressed him himoff olf in tad tbd snow walked it to thi station and board ed a train fur for philadelphia anlas there in safety krom that timo time until 1877 18 s when lie went to ilayev for a pardon shear wai a fugitive flying JH As he firmly from the gallows ida ills next blell fiel I 1 of op operations bratiotis was in the bost et where ht hi continued hia his criminal carter on the eve eye of shear moved to teas texas on the way he met glyn carter doling who had hail recently been mustered out of 0 the service and bal hal begun that carter chith whit h spread his name so idaly in th the e southwest they pooled their rash cash bought a schooner arms and ammunition recruited a crew of adventurers and sailed from patre island stand brazos up the illo orande grande having in view no lens less than the capture and loot of mate mata moras those were troublous times on that frontier and the last days of mail millan that the dashing lashing berserk berserkers ors failed ignominiously Is a matter of history often retold shear escaped crossing the river with no other pos sessions than a pair of dungar dungaree breeches and a flannel shirt after three of respectability lr tr the ea eat t he went west and made the first special issue of a dally daily paper devoted to great industries starting with the railroad edition of story a chicago times it was of 20 20 pages page 1 a monster sheet for those days and it whipped into line the whole railroad system of the northwest at 1 a line this field was soon mccu pled and he then created the office now common to all newspapers of a circulation manager shear and a partner named demon went to mexico the latter represent ing himself as marcus mayor mayer the representative of abbey grau schofield in the management of adelina paul patti and opened upa subscription for a season of grand opera thy they cleared up over in gold on the eve of discovery they hired a special train and escaped to the united states henson benson who Is known under aliases al lasea went to london degott atad a big bank swindle which bare ly failed of success was arrested in new fork fought the mexican extra unavailingly and jumped off the gallery of the ludlow street jail thin thus the end in 1902 tilling killing himself on his share sharo of the ilia profits of this foray shear nursed his ailing failing health for a year in a sant 1 barlum lie ile was as sent seat to the albany pent tent lary in 1892 1832 for a check passed in that city and on his release taken to elmira and being reconvicted ent sent to auburn then he went to syracuse where he worked for or a building ana anti loan association whose unsavory c reer and end are so well A new company which he organized orgin lied to corer cover the misdeeds of the old one paid 67 per cent of ita its astral income to promote its finish wa in sight from the first and shear was of course arrested for reason there was nc tic rial trial but he be waa was taken to mashington on a charge of forgery and anti was bent sent to mound city ity pent tent lary for eighteen Ight een months now new be he Is in sing sing sentenced tor or fore cry ery and embezzlement and ho cannot outlive his term |