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Prisoner Was Convicted of Forging Checks at Local Stores The alertness of Sheriff Workmans forte prevented a Wholesale jail deliv ery ferme daat Simeey, whet one oot the prisoners Wats Deard vsti ar fine steel Or oom foster teed ti thee celle of one of the eells AWihhetr is di eovors bes ode the prisoners Were serrehed but nothing was formed on them. Not satisfierd: with the disposition of the prisoners ter te talk ame give ti far: Hellen Shewat the dassterious sends hesiael in the ells. Sheriff Worley: with Depuy Gage dustituted a p erase exalination of the cells and secreted in the sale of a boother by Andrew Murtishaw, recently convicted in dis trict court on forgery Charles, was found a fine steel saw. After this find was made, several of the prisoners said that Murtishaw had been at work with the saw o on the iron bars, unused to reinforce the ceiling of his cell, but several feet long, and about the size of a brooniestick, had been sawed in two, and it was the intention of Murtishaw to use this bar as a weapon in case he was discovered making his wiy to liberty. Pmning Murtishaw's work on the bar the other prisoners were engaged in singing and shouting, to drown out the noise made by the Law. The following day Muartishaw was taken to Fort Worth and turned over to the penitentiary agent for transfer to the state prison. Muartishaw is the young man who tried to pass bogus checks at the Rieger Brothers and the Perkins-Timberlake store du Ded on January 8rd, and who was convicted in distriet court last week and sen tenced to four years in prison. When asked if he wanted thore in which to ‘file a nation for a men trial Muntushin told Judge McKinsey that he wanted to be sentenedh to the penitentiary “yieht now!) bt is Warned tart the vows nina has # bard record, and has been an alminete of the penitentiary Ife is a big, strapping young fellow, about twenty-three years of irae, and at the ways being tried on the forters tines Tae army boots, in the charges Te were cole mt ane bettig: Sseeret ct the law which He employed later in seeking his escape from the county jill. It is sail that Sheriff Workman, having had come of the west desperate criminals over Teld in Wise county mm jail during Wise ferdit ae thie, o is witchful on his duties, and his alertness Sundax pre vented what wend have been a wise agle delivery of the prisoner- A man works evil for himself in etter eheer net tet ise working ftor another, and the wicked scheme is worst for Him who devises it. (*Whose digeeth a pit shall fall therein,” )—From Observations of Hesiod, a celebrated Greek poet, who lived about S00 Th. C. When a man sits down for his ship to come in, it usally turns out to be receivership.
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Decatur Wise County Messenger
Decatur, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1925
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