Show HE DIED IN IN PR PRISON ISoN WITH PARDON ON WAY Veteran Was Vias Reading Homeward Home Honic ward War Bound When End Game Came Kansas City David Mo David Truax two eighty years old a life ternier In Inthe inthe inthe the Kansas Kansas' penitentiary at t La Lansing died while a p pardon was on the way to him Truax se served ved to the Ninety-first Ninety New NewYork NewYork NewYork York in the civil war Having grubbed grubbed grubbed grub grub- bed a competency from a little farm farmin i in Meade lead county he hc J rt his bis family for fora a few months and went to the Kansas Old Soldiers' Soldiers home bome at Dodge City On his bis his return from a visit to town one day Truax brought with him a a pint of whisky He Be put the bottle in his his coat pocket hung the coat in a tree tree- and went into the barracks While he be was I gone pone two of or his hiM cronies drank trank all the whisky and replaced d the p empty pty bottle When he discovered the the empty bottle h ho he b became ec mt mad with with ruA rage He lie He got an anold anold anold old army pistol Asto and ami killed one and wounded the other One Ont of the m men n was 1 killed Instantly and aud the other crippled crip II pled pIed cd for life lite Truax fruit x was vas tried for mur- mur der convicted and sentenced to the Kansas penitentiary for a life term term When Major W. W W. W L. L Brown was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- pointed to the board of control he be took tooka a II special Interest in the the convicts who have ve been soldiers and came to know Truax intimately Through his bis Intercession Intercession Inter inter- cession a II pardon was granted The pa- pa papers papers pers were mailed to the governor and Truax was taken talen from the cell room and given the freedom of or the office lIe He had been making bl big plans for his trip bom Out of ot hi his pension he had bad saved to assure assure assur burial buri l outside outside outside out out- side tb the prison cemetery and sent the hi his family Major Brown called In the the Va wardens warden's dens den's office to see Ree Truax and found him sitting sitting sit sit- ting in an e easy sy chair apparently doz doz doz- ing InA He was dead In n his lap was waB a book Homeward Bound |