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Show SENTENCED Strange Story of a Tragedy That Did Not Occur Galveston, Texas, Feb 23 Rector Williams. 52 years old. has been released re-leased from the slate penitentiary at. Rusk nftor a 20-v ears' service, accompanied ac-companied by the mnn he was convicted con-victed of having killed. P-omard J. Carter of Seattle. Wash., was responsible respon-sible for the roleao of Williams from prison, where he was serving a forty-year forty-year term. When Carter saw the name of Rector Rec-tor Williams mentioned among tho convicts who testified before a legislative legis-lative committee he became Interested Interest-ed and discovered it was the same man who drove cattle and rode the range with him twenty years ago. Carter visited the prison and tha pardon par-don of Williams followed. i Twenty years ago Williams and Carter Car-ter owned small interests In cattle-In cattle-In west Texas and were employed on the McCormlck ranch In Crockett and Pecos counties. They had frequent fre-quent quarrels which terminated In a fight in which Carter was stabbed and left for dead. Williams believed he had killed his companion aud he attempted to hide the crime by throwing throw-ing the body in tho Pecos river. Carter, Car-ter, however, recovered and left tho southwest. |