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Show WOMAN . WAS" FORCED TO .WORK On Chain Gang Cut Bars ' of Cell and Hade Her Escape ' Athens, Ga., April 5- Kate CDwy-er, CDwy-er, . tho -young woman who was shackled and forced to work on the chain gang, escaped last night, according ac-cording to an official announcement made today. ' The woman had been sentenced to tho ohaln gang for 12 months for dls-I dls-I orderly conduct. The sentence was suspended on condition that she leave the country and never return. She returned, waa arrested and ordered or-dered shacklod and chained day and night, as the desperate male convicts were. The cane attracted much attention. Governor Smith took it up and the prison commission issued, an order that no woman prisoner, no matter what ner offense, was ever to be shackled. The woman escaped by cutting the bars on her ' cell, and it is believed she had outside help. |