Jack Shea thaum kawg sij hawm

Rau lub yim hli ntuj 11, 1896, lub tsheb ciav hlau los txog rau me nyuam. Louis, Missouri ib ncig 7:30 a.m. Peb nqi exited tsheb ciav hlau. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Nkaus” Shea, leej twg tau tua cov me nyuam. Louis tub ceev xwm Patrick Doran rau lub kaum ib hlis 7, 1881.

Yuag heev thiab sickly Shea lawm yog cov hluas thug, uas ntawv kho mob tseg Doran thaum ib tug caum tom qab nws dim ntawm tus me nyuam thib ob. Louis Jail. Shea tsuas yog 38 lub xyoo laus tiam sis 15 years on the run and a couple of stints in prison clearly left their mark on him.

When the officers escorted the pale Shea in to see St. Louis tub ceev xwm Chief Harrigan, Hais rau Harrigan Shea, “Qhov tshij, Chief, Kuv twb tau si losing nees. Tam sim no kuv ntub rau 50 xyoo.” Shea dim hauv cov me nyuam. Louis Jail 4 lub sij hawm. Yog thaum nws txoj kev khiav ob tias nws tua Officer Doran.

Lub kaum hli ntuj 1881, Shea thiab nws kaw Frank Fone ua tawm ntawm tus me nyuam confederate. Cov tsev kaw neeg muaj me nyuam txom Louis coob ntawm thawj zaug. Ua hauv thefts thiab burglaries, St. Louis Police captured them in early November 1881.

Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 7, 1881, lawv dim rov hauv thiab tua Officer Patrick Doran thaum ib tug caum qab los ntawm me nyuam hauv plawv nroog. Louis. St. Louis Police captured Shea and returned him to jail.
Tsis pub dhau ib hlis, Shea thiab Fone dua dim hauv cov me nyuam. Louis Jail. Hos yog yus Shea, Fone was crafty and planned the escapes. Shea pov tseg ntes mus txog 1887, when police captured Shea and brought him back to St. Louis.

Tub ceev xwm siv guarded nws plaub xyoos uas nws nyob hauv St. Louis Jail. Sim ob zaug rau uas Officer Patrick Doran, the court sentenced Shea to hang in the first trial. Txawm li cas los, Shea appealed ntse. Nws mus sib hais ob lawm hauv ib kab lus uas 50 xyoo.

Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 2, 1891, an unknown person left an iron gate at the jail open and ten hardened criminals, xws li Shea, ua rau lawv khiav tawm. Authorities believe the criminals bribed a guard to leave the door open. Tsib xyoos tom ntej no, Shea ntxwv khaus Pennsylvania thiab Ohio raws li nws cov cai John Sullivan bounced.

Shea might have continued to elude capture, but a former confederate named Conroy arrived in the Ohio penitentiary near the end of Shea’s sentence for burglary. Tub ceev xwm conroy lawv tsev rau txim uas lawv yeej muaj. Prison authorities sent a telegram to St. Louis.

Detectives Jim Tracey thiab Denny Viehle tuaj txog thiab muab Shea rov qab rau cov me nyuam. Louis. Ua ntej lawv los txog sab thiab txawm nws mob cev tsis muaj zog, Shea nrhiav tau caij nyoog mus nkaug Conroy nyob rau sab. Tiv thaiv nres nws ua ntej nws yuav tua Conroy, yog nws tej uas tuaj nyob Shea.

Tracey thiab Viehle coj tsis muaj mob Shea. Lawv cia nws nyob rau hauv handcuffs tej thaum nws noj. Thaum twg lawv yuav tau tso tseg nyob rau hauv ib lub zos thaum Ohio Missouri, lawv muab tub Shea nyob rau hauv cov chaw kaw txog thaum caij tsheb ciav hlau tawm mus rau cov.

Tracey thiab Viehle yog paub qab hau los yuav tau xyuam xim nws. While his life on the run weakened Shea, Shea constantly thought about escaping. When a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter asked him if he would rather the state execute him than serve a 50 xyoo-lub sij hawm, Shea yeej teb, “Ua li cas, tau kawg tsis. Kuv tsis tau muab sij hawm rau cov kev khiav tawm ntawd?”

Prison officials transported Shea to the Missouri Penitentiary. Between April 1905 kuj yuav 1907, officials transferred Shea to the Fulton Asylum. Governor Major commuted the rest of Shea’s sentence on July 3, 1914. Shea would have been about 56 xyoo.

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Qhov chaw: Cov me nyuam. Louis Dispatch tom qab, Lub yim hli ntuj 11, 1896, ib tsab, p. 3 and Missouri State Penitentiary Records

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