Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-25 | Page 1 | Sing [Illegible] Inmate Shot Fleeing to Home for Xmas

4 I n i M t ing to toi tor r for Xmas I Wanted to S See e M Mother other He Says After Machine Gun Bullets Hit Himin Him Himin in B Back lck OSSINING N. N Y V. Dec 25 United Press Press Press-it It lt was Christmas eve and visions of childhood days dais flitted before R Robert bert Nabi 23 as he sat ut satin satin utin in his cell at Sing Sing prison I 1 sure would like to see my mother he lie thought As the hours passed this thought developed d Into one of a. a a more d de determined de- de nature Im going to s see e my mother he decided d d. d It was was- during the the- eve evening assem assem- l e w. w are lined d 1 t Dl de t g. g to tak If 1 i gh ii 10 1 e 1 1 P ff He lie Ie was first observed walking through tile greenhouse close to the south wall Hey you you where where do YOU think youre you're going Keeper John Ryan shouted Nabi anse answered M by s streaking through the rear door He lie evaded guards and tr trusties reached a fence and leaped atop It Within a minute he lie was wae on on the outside running a zigzag course tow toward rd the railroad tracks A rat t tat rat tat t-tat sound sounded d from from the watch towers The machine guns guns' h had d been put into play and dust flecks spurted about the tho fleeing Nabi's abIs legs But Dut KabI Nabi kept on until untila a bullet lodged in his back i In Jn the prison hospital he gasped weakly wanted I I wanted to spend spend Christmas Christmas I with mother my my mother