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Murderer of harht to justice The notorious West Side rowdy, "Billy" Byrne, apprehended after itive fro sat stony-eyed and cold for what seemed many minutes Then with a stifled sob she turned and buried her face in the pillows

The train bearing Billy Byrne and the deputy sheriff toward Joliet had covered perhaps half the distance between Chicago and Billy's permanent destination when it occurred to the deputy sheriff that he should like to go into the sar

Now, from the moment that he had been sentenced Billy Byrne's ht--escape He knew that there probably would be not the slightest chance for escape; but nevertheless the idea was always upperainst the injustice which had sent hi years of awful monotony which lay ahead of him

He could not endure the his prisoner ahead of him, started for the smoker It o cars ahead The train was vestibuled The first platforhtly enclosed; but at the second Billy saw that a careless porter had left one of the doors open The train was slowing down for so, perhaps, twenty miles an hour

Billy was the first upon the platform He was the first to see the open door It s--a chance to escape, or, death Even the latter was to be preferred to life imprisonment

Billy did not hesitate an instant Even before the deputy sheriff realized that the door was open, his prisoner had leaped frouard after him