Championed by author Jack London, Morrell was pardoned in 1908 and thereafter became a well-known advocate for prison reform. An accomplice to the Evans-Sontag Gang was Ed Morrell, who served fourteen years total in Folsom and San Quentin. Evans is interred in Portland at Mount Calvary Cemetery. He also wrote a socialist book which calls for expanded government to check what he viewed as the abuses of the business community. Banished from California, he died in Portland, Oregon, in 1917, denying to the end that he had ever robbed a train and had killed only in self-defense. After Evans served for seventeen years at Folsom, he was paroled in 1911 by Governor Hiram Johnson, a liberal Republican, who had been elected on an anti-Southern Pacific campaign theme.

John Sontag's younger brother, George Contant, testified against Evans and hence acquired the lifelong hatred of Evans' family.

He was taken into custody and convicted of murder and sentenced to life in Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California. Evans was himself severely wounded at Stone Corral, having lost an eye and his left arm. Later, John Sontag was mortally wounded in what is called the Battle of Stone Corral. They had a shootout with a posse at the Young cabin which resulted in the death of Wilson, the posse leader, and McGinnis, a former friend of Chris Evans. The outlaws evaded capture for ten months.

While Evans and Sontag hid out, writers Ambrose Bierce and Joaquin Miller championed their cause in the San Francisco Examiner. After killing a member of a posse outside his home on the outskirts of Visalia, he fled to the Sierra Nevada mountains with his younger partner, John Sontag. Evans was accused of robbing the Southern Pacific Railroad in California between 18. Christopher 'Chris' Evans (1847 1917), a native of Bell's Corner near Ottawa, Canada, was an American farmer and teamster turned outlaw. Six black & white photographic illustrations. Crimson cloth over boards with gilt titles at the front panel and backstrip.

NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. Very Good+: shows very light wear to the extremities and the mildest rubbing.

Prodigal Sons by Wallace Smith