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Show BEGGED TO BE ADMITTED TO PRISON Canon City, Colo., June 20 After two weeks of hiding in tho mountains, moun-tains, continuously sought by prison authorities, Curtis Day and Ross Hol-lingworth, Hol-lingworth, escaped convicts from the state penitentiary, appeared at the prison gate yesterday morning and asked to bo taken back and fed. The men claimed that they had had notn-Jng notn-Jng to eat since their escape from the Institution. Each had lost fully twenty twen-ty pounds during his sojourn In the hills, and showed every sign of being near to starvation Thev were plncen In the caro of the prison physician, who administered restoratives and advised that the men be kept on light dlot for several days. The prisoners aro serving terms for embezzlement and a statutory crime. |