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Show rMir.TK 1 lulnitl So J Twenty-Eight Years Af- ' I ter He Escaped : 1 From Prison , j ' SL Joseph, Mo., Dec. 23.-Twenty- ' oight years after ho escaped from tho , J Huntsvillo penitentiary, where ho was ' .1 Boning a seventeen-year sentence for ,1 horse stealing, William B. Hammond, :J 1 as ho is known here, yesterday was . j informed that ho had boon grantod a i J ; pardon by Governor Colquitt of Tex- J as. Hammond,' or Nathan Hurst, as Is , j his right name, ha3 since that tlmo -" I ' become a prominent local politician, J ; has built up a business as a bond H broker and hns reared a family, tho j members of whicli are as yctignq- j, rant of their father's early career. "J; Hurst was only 17 when ho w-a ' 1 ' Kent to prison. He served but three A X months, and, while working on si, dump ' -X JJJ ! outside the walls ono day. caught -a guard with his back turned, mounted v il ono of tho mul03 ho had, been work- v- J Jt Ing and escaped. " ' JJ , |