joe wears that coat when seeing katherine off on her train -- a whole year before the actions at the jailhouse and more than that before she sees it; and we never see the sewing repair on joe's trip west.
joe very easily could have been wearing another coat when first arrested, and he or his brothers then brought it along from chicago to capitol city (again, a year after the repair was made).
besides -- in support of the plot -- it's the misspelled anonymous letter to the judge that tips-off katherine... and his brother states this to joe... and katherine even tells joe it was indeed the letter (she never mentions the coat).
no plot hole here, simply a cinematic device to get katherine thinking about joe. and tied to that is the newspaper asking (her), "is this man alive"?
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