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Show HANDCUFFED NEGRO ! TRIES TO ESCAPE LANCASTER, Ohio. May 13. An Impediment In the formdff a 16-year-old bo handcuffed to his wrist meant nothing to a Pomcroy nogro bootlr gger, when it came to making a dash for llbertv on a train runnlnij 40 miles an hour So through the window he went, taking the boy with him. The lad suffered a broken) Shoulder and other severe Injuries. The negro, John Sparknian. 2S year-bid, year-bid, n being taken to the Dayton workhbusel, to serve a sentence for bootlegging. The boy. Leonard Lar-klns. Lar-klns. was being taken to the state reform school at Lancaster. The two officer In charge of the prisoners had handcuffed them together Both prisoners ware recaptured. |