Bert Taylor, NE, 1910 October 28

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TAYEOR, Rober cm ml ip (Bert) large card

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Taylor, a 39=year~old Minden s Nebres p painter and paper =

-April-28, 1908,-and-left them for-dead-after setting-fire

—ing-conseiousness—on-May—7, “from —the fire-and—identified

and subsequently surrendered to a railroad brakeman at
—pan- Bernadino, Cadit,—,—-on-Jan.—1i1, 1909... He-was-—-returne

a number of years before, and when he went by the house
—on-the—night—of-the—crime—and-saw-—what—had- happened, he—
left not trying to escape but to track the killer who ~

hanger assaulted his two young neices on the night of —

to their house to obliterate traces of the crime. The
younger girl pulled her sister, who died without regain-

their eee as their uncle. Taylor fled the BEY Stay

for trial 1 where he maintained that he had "met a double"

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TAYEOR, Robert M. (Bert) large card

Taylor

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a 39-year-old Minden, Nebr., painter and paper=
ulted his two young neices on the night of
—April—_28, 1908, and-left them for—dead-after settin
to their house to obliterate traces of the crir
younger girl pulled her sister, who di without rege
ing-conseiousness—on-May—7, from—the-fire-—and identif
their assailant as their uncle.
and subsequently surrendered to a railroad brakeman at
San-Bernadino, Calif,_,_on-Jan. 11, -1909.. _He-was—returne
for trial where he maintained that he had "met a double!
by the house
happened, he
kil who

fire

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