| Show MAN LIVES LIt ES 34 YEARS FEARING MURDER CHARGE Doubting He Could Prove Innocence Innocence In In- Returns Return Home to Find Charge Dropped Omaha Nth After Ih After lit IRIng Ing for thirty four years year In tear fear knowing that he h was ass for a murder In which lie ho had lind no hand but of which Ie he t could not prove r his Innocence te John i I K Van Pan Net less N E sixty has hM just found himself n R tree free man lie Ile can con so go to nod do as ns h he plen pleases es And nil 1111 because e o he had de de- dehd decided hd to risk prison for a glimpse of t the faces of members ers of his hi family Ran Away From Home Ness es and ami Thirty four years jours lIr ago ngo Van In Ines two companions ran away from their homes In Neb b They became separated on the Ihl WhY woy to 10 Tt The e companions of Van Ness lS and ond another man olio ulio had loin oliv d them engaged Inn ina In n a In which two railroad policemen po were killed The two Omaha hn men were nere sent pent to 10 prison hut but the third suspect disappeared I Police at once began bl searching for forI forYan I Von Yan Ness J for fr he be was the third roem test ber of the party when hen the youl youths left Omaha Van UD tearing fearing that to he I could not pro p his In Innocence changed his name and fled to Florida I There twenty y yenta ego he hI pretended to his family that he hud been drowned Worked and Lived In Swamps Van an Ness less I worked and lived In III seclusion seem I sion ston In the swamps Sl s Always os he lie feared that he would be arrested Irest d. d I IA A few months ago ao h however o 1 r he dp dl elded Id to see sec the faces of his Ills Ills' 10 loved d ones lie went to Omaha and was OS reunited reunited re reo united with w members of ot his Some one olle In recognized the tM theman theman man er ho anti an he was Omaha police pollee tot jut ot in t wit with railroad police only to 10 learn that th the fugitive slayer had been captured an ev 1 0 l 7 h 1 I I i i I 1 t V Vt I I 1 f t l a-l I l th L pf Worked and Lived In Seclusion In the Swamp Swamps I that he ho hud had conferred many years rears o ago go fro flo floun Van tan Ness n a free man had lind hem been making 11 II fugitive e of himself for a u long Ions time u uselessly Its great preat to he be free Iree again I exclaims ex- ex I claims Van un Ness II n a ho hi goes about Omaha renewing rene renew Ing old acquaintances |
