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Show oo TRIED TO SEE . HIS MOTHER i r, Convict Is Captured on the Way to His i Old Home . : 5, Chicago, Oct, 29. An escaped con vict's efforts to get to 6ee his mother, ' who was reported to him to bo dying, dy-ing, led to his capture today at Worth, 111. Tony Landers, one of the trio who broke jail at Jollot penitentiary Sunday, Sun-day, was tho man captured. He told , his captors he had loft his companions ! not moro than ten minutes before and ! the posse whclh took Landers went on to seek the others, William Dunne and Frank Thompson. Landers waB overtaken in a cornfield corn-field after a farmer had notified the . police. "When we got near Chicago I want-' want-' ed the others to hurry," ho said, "and 1 we began to feel a little safe. Dunne and Thompson said they wore tired and were going to Git down and rest a bit "I had been told my mother was dying and I didn't want to loee hor. 1 wanted to see her before she died even If It cost me my liberty, so I went on. T-en minutes later I was orderod to surrender." If Landorn' story about his mother Is found to be true ho will bo allowed to visit her before being returned to .Toilet, the police said. |