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tells all about Mr. Delahunty, and I will prove that I am right. Take that chapter, and at the same time the statement of the chaplain, to any of the five governors that Mr. Delahunty served under, and ask them which is right and which is wrong. Go to his home county, ask those among whom he lived for nearly thirty years and ask who is correct. He is right, however, where he says that he felt that the only thing to do was to resign-for Governor Aldrich felt so too. He says further that all his protests were received as the vaporings of a sentimental old man. Where and when did he protest? Never to Warden Delahunty. In order to give this man a perfectly square deal before publishing this book, I sent him on the evening of September the seventeenth, by registered mail, a letter which I know that he received. In that I asked him five questions which he never saw fit to answer.

When the warden was brutally murdered,

 
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an Omaha paper called up this chaplain by phone and asked what he thought about the murder. His answer was: "I do not want to say anything just now, but I will have to admit that I am not exactly surprised.


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CHAPTER THIRTY
THE BANK ROBBERS

As soon as the men were locked in their cells following the escape of the desperadoes, a count was taken to determine how many had escaped. Three times the men were were counted, and each time the count fell three men short. As already stated these were Gray, Dowd and Morley. Of the three, Gray was by far the most desperate. He had spent his life in crime and was an expert shot and dynamiter. Twice he served at Lancaster, each time for bank robbery. On his first trip he stated that he was a horse trainer, while on his last, he gave "upholsterer" as his trade, but no one ever knew of him doing any upholstering. With two pals he burglarized the bank at Lyons in 1902. He was taken to Tekamah and given a preliminary hearing before Judge J. C. Shaw. He sent word to the judge that he would kill him as soon as he got out, but

 
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the court paid no attention to his threats and bound him over. The state was repre-

SHORTY GRAY

sented by County Attorney P. E. Taylor, while Attorney J. M. Cole, a famous criminal