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Show SWINDLER PROYES ESCAPED CONVICT DENVER. Aug. 31. J- F. Werthsn. alias Jo A. Msthewe. who wae arrestee In Tacoma last week, charged with swindling Beettle benas mt of tlT.76. turns out to be Thomas t. Murray, atlas Mowrev. who escaped from tha Colorado atate penitentiary Jo'v s laat. Murray had swindled Penver banka out of HsOOO bv a clever real estate scheme and wss arrested at tha tnlon depot. Mav II) 11. with I.9I on hla paraon wraopcd about hit waist. II" waa sentenced sen-tenced to from Hie to "r . " ; lata prlaon. hut whlla working w ih tha quarry gang eweped. It la a. Id hla wife herpei him. being near by with a suit of VlrWn's rlothaa. wllh whlrh Murray waa enabled to walk paat the guards Ha waa hunted by detectives over a doaen aiataa. but waa caught at laat through tha ahrewdneee of a Salll bank teller On Augoet U Murray swindled Mettle banka out of $17 7W) fn one day by tha aam clever ta. lire ha had employed em-ployed In Denver, but a bank teller hap-oened hap-oened to notice tha resemblance tha man Kora to tha picture of Murray appearing In a detective bulletin and called up tha datartlva agency, with tha raault thst Murray waa srreated In Tacoma. whither he went from Seattle and restored st a cheep hotal wllh moat of tha monsy "Vurra? w?H he brought back to Canon City to aarva tha remslnder of hla tarm I and than will ba taken to tallk to an-awar an-awar to tha charge of swindling tharo. |