Returned to Sing Sing
A Goshen Burglar, Who Escaped Fifteen Years Ago, Will Finish His Term.
A burglar who slipped out of Sing Sing prison fifteen years earlier is finally run down after being caught up in an unrelated dynamite case in Pennsylvania — a small but satisfying tale of a very long manhunt.
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The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · Page 1
1 min readState Detective James Jackson returned to Sing Sing Prison to-day from Erie, Pa., with Frank Koehler, the man who was arrested as a party concerned in the dynamite outrages at Union City, Pa., last May.
The detective visited Erie at the time of Koehler's arrest and identified him as a burglar who escaped from Sing Sing prison fifteen years ago, while serving a five years' term for a burglary committed at Goshen.
Koehler was indicted on the Pennsylvania charge, but the jury failed to agree. Gov. Hill was then asked to pardon him for his offence in this State, but refused.
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