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Show FUGITIVE WORRIES THEN SURRENDERS Leavenworth. Ivan., Oct. 13. Pre ferrlng to return to prison rather t than to be constantly bounded by the ' belief that he was being pursued by : (Utectiven, John Sitortsman. an escaped es-caped convict, turrendepd himself at the Kansas state prison in ljiu-s ljiu-s ng yesterday. I Sport-mnn and John Wllgus. both I of whom were trusties, escaped from the penitentiary several months ago. SKirtan went to Missouri ami ob- t talned a position on a farm. Hut the iear that be wa being (.pled upon by ! detectives worried him greatly, and J MMerday he walked back to prison to ' give himself up. Going Into a prison stable, ho called a depiiiv warden over u teb pnn, and k,I,I: - "I rn here ready to give myself up. I'm thoroughly tired of running away from .b-tectiyes." When SKrtHman ran away he had bit eitht months of a five vear term to i.-rve. Now, beraiiHO of tils cscno, he will not be released until April. '?12. Wllgus has never been located. |