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Show PRISONER JUMPS FROM A TRAIN Chicago. Jan. 9. Robert Helt. being taken from Chicago to New York to be tried on a charge of using the mails in an attempt to extort money, escaped today at Pittsburg, Pa. by jumping through a car window while the Pennsylvania railroad train was moving slowiv through the yards This information was received here in a telegram from Deputy United States Marshal John Stach, who had Helt in custody. The fugitive "as charged with threatening to murder H. A. Guess of New York, a construction construc-tion engineer employed by the Qug-genheims, Qug-genheims, if he did not give him $1700 which Helt claimed the engineer owed him. oo |