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Plot To Escape Discovered

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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CHICAGO, April 16.- The apprehension entertained by the officials that Windrath and Manow, on trial before Judge Horton for inurder, contomplated escaping by some desperate means was revived again Wednesday ruorning. It transpirad that on being searched Windrath was found to have a large quantity of red pepper concealed in his clothing. This peppor was enough to weigh a pound or a pound and a half, and the story told by tho pĆ³lice and the criminal court officials is that he intended to blind the eyes of thoso in the court room with the pepper and then dash for the door.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News