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told threw out the mail pouch and express box and started on his way. Miller released his unwilling assistants. They reported at Florence, and a posse went out to arrest Miller. He was tried for robbing the express company and sen- tenced to twelve years in the Yuma jail. While there he made good the amount stolen from the mail bag, and in January of this year was pardoned by the governor of the territory. went to Los Angeles and secured work but in the latter part of February was rearrested and taken to Florence and tried on a charge of rob- bing the United States mail, and having been convicted, was sentenced to ten years in San Quentin.

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by the governor of the territory. went to Los Angeles and secured work but in the latter part of February was rearrested and taken to Florence and tried on a charge of rob- bing the United States mail, and having been convicted, was sentenced to ten years in San Quentin. In company with a deputy sheriff he started for prison, but while waiting for a train the deputy sheriff fell asleep and Miller escaped. An accommodating blacksmith furnished him a file with which to take his shackles off, and he started across the desert. He suffered se- verely for water. In desperation he bit into his flesh and sucked his blood, which gave him strength enough to keep on until he reached a water hole in the desert. He stayed at this well for a day and drank so much water that it made him ill, and fearing that he would die he crawled to a settlement and asked for help. His description had been furnished by the sheriff and he was placed under restraint until Sheriff Paul went. Miller says this was his first robbery, and that he was driven to the crime to keep his wife from starving, and, al- though Sheriff Paul accuses him of having robbed a stage near Reading, Arizona, this ex- perience was his first and last venture as a stage robber. ORGANIZE K. P. LODGE