Show WILL KILL HIS ENEMY I AND RETURN TO PRISON I I Convict OBrien O'Brien Writes to Butte Newspaper Telling His Object in Escaping From Penitentiary BUTTE Mont Aug 27 WIth i. With officers of ot the State penitentiary upon his trail rail assisted by bloodhounds bloodhounds convict ct Tom OBrien O'Brien who last Friday made a daring escape from the State prison has sent pent a n. communication to the Miner Iner pleading for tor a public statement of ot his alleged crimes and vowing the death heath of oC Under Sheriff Dave Morgan whose alleged perjured testimony the convict declares sent him to prison and wrecked recIted his home The document received by the Miner lIner bears the postmark of Anaconda The writer dates his communication from a mountain In the surrounding hills of or Anaconda and sa says s 's that he wrote his story behind a rock dividing his time between his Winchester and his pen The communication Is a literary freak and no question exists as to its authenticity as the has fully been Identified by the warden of at the penitentiary and others acquainted with the thc crimi criminal as I. I OBrien O'Brien declares his sole object In escaping from the prison Is to kill Deputy Sheriff Morgan and after aCter that is accomplished he ho will surrender to the officers and take the consequences In describing his escape from the penitentiary OBrien O'Brien who Is a graduated veterinary surgeon and as a trusty worked in the stables of ot the prison says he le gave ga the bloodhounds opium that the they would be unable to trace him He also fed tho the wardens warden's h horse a week previous so that the tho animal would be bc In condition for Cor his escape OBrien O'Brien dashed by the guards mounted on a favorite race horse belonging to the warden Posses POMes are now scouring the countr country for tor the fugitive but with the exception exception tion of oC the letter received by the Miner lIner and another by the warden telling that official where his horse can be found Cound nothing has been heard of or the escaped convict OBrien O'Brien was sent up for Cor robber robbery In 1 1001 01 |