Washington, its sights and insights [1909]Monroe, Harriet Earhart
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Washington, its sights and insights [1909]
Monroe, Harriet Earhart
Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel
JAMES FOLEY, _alias_ JACK MURRAY, _alias_ JACK MULVEY, was again
arrested, February 24, 1897, at Chicago, Ill., for having in
possession and passing counterfeit silver dimes, and escaped March
22, 1897, but was rearrested, under the name of JOHN O'KEEFE, in
New York, N. Y., April 6, 1897, for passing counterfeit 10c.
pieces, and sentenced, May 12, 1897, to _seven years_ in Clinton
Prison and fined $1. Released from this prison February 27, 1902.
Another case from the records of the Secret Service would read as
follows:
One day the doors of the Moundsville, W. Va., prison opened on a tall,
slender, mild-eyed man, upon whose face and form time and confinement
had left their impress, and he passed out to take up again the broken
thread of his life.
This was John Ogle's first day of freedom for more than three years. On
July 4, 1898, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for trying to
increase the negotiable value of one-dollar bills by altering their
denominational characteristics.
Little more than a year before his brother, Miles, was released from the
Ohio penitentiary, where he had paid the extreme penalty imposed by law
for spurious money making, only to die two days later of paralysis, with
which he had been hopelessly stricken over a year before.
The Ogles, father and sons, during the past fifty years have had much to
do with the making of the criminal history of this country. George Ogle,
the father, was a river pirate and farmhouse plunderer, the Ohio River
and its tributaries being the scene of his operations. The sons, bred in
an atmosphere of crime, early embarked in independent unlawful
enterprises. Miles displayed pugnacity, intrepidity, and skill, while
John was shrewd, plausible, and cunning.
After serving five years for killing an officer who attempted to arrest
the family, and when but twenty-six years old, Miles allied himself with
the notorious "Reno" gang of bandits, and became the pupil and
confederate of Peter McCartney, that past master of the counterfeiter's
art. How well he applied himself the records of the Secret Service will
testify. An even dozen skilfully executed spurious note issues were
directly traceable to him, despite the fact that two-thirds of his
manhood were spent behind prison walls.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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