 After being relentlessly pursued by the Pinkertons, he was finally arrested on February 10, 1892, in San Francisco, along with Slye, and brought back to Missouri for trial.Convicted, he was sentenced in 1893 to 25 years in the Missouri State Penitentiary.Hedgepeth informed on a former cell-mate, whom he knew as "H.M. Howard" but was really H. H. Holmes, which eventually resulted in the notorious killer's unmasking, conviction and execution in 1896.