Now he knows what's going on around him, but he's too badly hurt to do more than hold his tongue." It was only when Bad Pete recovered his health---in jail---and found himself facing a long term in prison, that he was ready to open his mouth.

He could tell nothing, however, beyond confessing that he and three other men, including an operator, had attended to the blow-out.

Pete had no knowledge of the real parties behind the plot.

He knew only that he had acted under 'Gene Blanks orders.
So Bad Pete was shown no mercy, but sent behind the bars for a term of twenty-five years.

Owing to Black's stubborn silence the outrages were never traced back to any official of the W.C.
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'Gene Black was sentenced to prison for thirty years.