Antedating of "Chain Gang"

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:20 PM -0500 1/18/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>  >From APS via Proquest:
>
>1831 _Atkinson's Saturday Evening Post_ 19 Feb. 3/4 At New Orleans, on the
>26th ult. a sailor, named Borden, was stabbed to the heart by a man called
>the Jack of Clubs, who was attempting to rob him of a handkerchief. The
>murderer had just been discharged from the chain gang.
>

any relation to Dylan's Jack of Hearts (from "Blood on the Tracks"),
another denizen of the underworld?

larry