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Schwartz Was Guilty

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
February
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, Feb 5. - The death-bed confcssion oí Ella Schwartz, vvifo of Harry Scliwartz, tho brakeman, now serving a sentunce in Joliet prison for complicity in the great Rock Island train robbery and the murder of expresa messenger N;chols, is made public here. Aecording to lier statement her husband gave her $13 500 of the stolen money coni caled in cartridge sliells. This money was, after Bchwartz'a arrest, delivered to hawyer W. K Bowman, of l'liiladelphia,who came here to dc-fend icliwartz. No trace of this money tías ever boen secured. It is also stated that Finkerton's detectives some time apo accused Mr. Bowman of having received the money, and tliat Mr. Bowman denied all knowledpe of iL

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register