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Show STAGE HOLDUP i LONGS FOR 1SLLS Confinement in Leavenworth Brings on Illness and Convict Fears He "Can't Pull Through." Denver, Colo., Feb. 28. Edward B. Trafton, convicted stage holdup, In a letter to his captor, James W. Melrose, special agent of the Tniled States bureau of investigation, tolls of illness resulting from his confinement at Leavenworth and contains an expression ex-pression of longing to return to life in the opon hills. In his letter made public today Trafton says: "1 have seen more sickness here than in the forty yeais I rambled through the hills. I am afraid I can't pull through. I miss tho clear cold nights and the freedom of tho heights. It's the climate, I think. Maybe a change to a 'shed' in the hill country would take the kinks out of my system and give me a chance to live " Trafton recently was sentenced by the federal district court at Cheyenne for tho stage holdup In Yellowstone National Park July 29, 1914. |