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DESPERADO'S ROMANCE. HELPED BY SWEETHEART. FREEDOM AND DEATH. LONDON. Sept. 27. A tramp who was overtaken and knocked down by a Chicago train and afterwards picked up in a dying condition, has been identified as a notorious desperado, Marvin Hart. This man recently distinguished himself by breaking out of the Tombs, the city prison in Now York, under sensational circumstances, his sweetheart ingeniously providing the means by which he -was enabled to ma.ke his escape. The girl, while visiting her lover, smuggled into the gaol a number of tiny saws and a bottle of nitric acid, all of which she had contrived to conceal in her hair. Tho police subsequently arrested the woman at her flat in Bronx, a New York suburb.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 8 October 1912, Page 7
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126ESCAPED FROM THE TOMBS. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 8 October 1912, Page 7
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