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Escaped ana dcrerTate Seen Heres . ...t t r r. the Smith countymurdoror, who escaped fro i the11 Fort orth jail some three weeksn • , is unuoubtediy in NoconaSunday night. About 9 o’clock*■ p. ip. Luther Pribble was askedbv Mr. Hatties to carry a pas*ngo ao'oss the river to Okla-- honia. a man that represented•' ■ in s if as going to see somes sic.{ relative over there and rep(i resenting rhat he expected to bea met at the river by a brother.| 'The man’s actions were so sus* 'r picirujs that Mr. Pribble ques* tinned him and the more he was1 questioned the more suspicious^ i bo appeared. Upon reaching1 Grady bo was lofr and Mr. Pribbio returned to Nocona and reported to Marshal Anderson, whooimmediately wired the sheriff atF-rt Worth and Sheriff Lands ate Tyler, \ nt no trace of the mane I lias vet been found.o rnho description of Tate wasi-published in some of the Sundayd papers and from the descriptiony and photo M r Pribbleg that bis fare was the man want*° ed. Tate is under sentence to ber- ’hanged for the murder of threepeople near Tyler last springand was tried in Fort Worth onn a change of venue which foundhim eudtv.
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Nocona News

Nocona, Texas, US

Fri, Nov 29, 1912

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