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Show CONDEMNED IN YIELDS AFTER JAILBREAK Youth Prefers Execution to Wandering About the Wilds of Texas ALPINE. Tex.. Oct. 20 Standing In thff shadow of the a raff old awaiting execution la preferable to wandering through mountain and desert wilds of Texas. H. L. Hughes. 20-year-old Da-, trolt youth, decided last night when ho voluntarily surrendered to officers at Toronto, Tex. Hughes was convicted of murdering C H. Koirers with robbery as a, motive mo-tive when the two alighted from a train en route to California to eat at a lunch counter- His plea of self-defense put forth at the trial was rejected re-jected -by the Jury and he was sen-j sen-j tenced to drain.. i Last Monday his opportunity to j "cheiit the gallows" came when Mrs. T. f. Morgan, wife of a deputy sheriff, j made the rounds of the Jail during the absence from town on official duties I of Sheriff E. E. Townsend and Deputy Morgan, her husband. The condemned j man sprang upon her from behind a door and drflRjred her with him down jhe atci)a.oLjhe.Jaiwhcrv heflujjht. with him to prevent his escape. Kor three days and nights the fugitive fugi-tive fled through the wilds of the Big Herid country, but terrifiid and tired by the vfistness of the wilderness, hungry hun-gry jinrt thirsty and weary to the point of exhaustion In body and mind. Hughes drugged himself into a railroad camp at Toronto and confessed his identity. He said he had had enough of starvation and thirst and was willing will-ing to meet his fate. |