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Show A Desperate Strike for Liberty. Kansas Crrr, September 21. The Times' Nevada, Mo., special says: George Thompson Thomp-son and Edward Hinds were jailed here last-Friday last-Friday for robbery. This morning the sheriff discovered they had sawed through the bars of their cell and formed a plot to kill him and liberate P. S. Star, who is to be hanged next month for murder, and then escape. A set of burglar saws were sewed in their cuffd, and $2,000 was accidently discovered dis-covered sewed up in Thompson's underwear. Hinds' valise contained a stick of dynamite. Thompson has been identified as a notorious crook. ' |