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fBy NEA Xew? Service* MUSKOGEE, Okla, Aug 5—Xever give up!”Charner Tidwell mentally hun^ that motto on the wall of h*s prison ceil when he entered it in 1S99.^oday he is free, having se^ed nearly 23 years of a life sentence for a murder he did net com-rnthXo hate is m his heart Like Monte Cristo he spenr h.-s prison years in educating himself, but unlike Monte Cristo he does not plan to spend the rest of his li’e seeking vengeance'! am at peace with the world,” says Tidwell.*4 I want to forget tho past and start life anew.”An unlettered farm hand atI7t when he was convicted of killing his em?loer, James Brown, an Adair county farmer, he is now at 40 an educated man with a trade. He learned tailoring in Atlanta federal prison and plans to fellow that trade.Because the crime occurred m the then Indian territory, his trial was in federal court and the first five years of his sentence were spent in the Columbus (O ) penitentiaryThe last IS years he has been at Atlanta, where he speni every spare minute :n the prison library 'educating himself and keeping abreast of developments in thei outside world.CHABXER TIDWELLTidwell's indefatigable efforts to establish nis innocence were re f warded recently when two sons ot the murdered man. who as small bo\s identified him as the murderer in 3899, declared he was not the man. jJust alter his release an Okla Jhoma woman made a deathbedconfession that n ^as her bus-, ^band who killed Brown. I n
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 05, 1922
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