El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-14
BREAKS JAIL TO co
TO PEHITENTIARY
Beverly Wood Says His Con
science Tells Him to Go
Back to Life Term.

Declaring that he was tired of being
an escaped convict and that he es-
capped from the Juarez Jail SO that he
might return to Huntsville peniten-
tiary TO give himself up, Beverly Wood
is held in the FL Paso city Jail.
He was caught in a rOOming house
at 1000 East Missouri street by city
detective j. c. Stansel and police ser
geant Lon Garner, on Monday.
In his cell at the city jail, Wood dis
cussed his escape and capture and
talked freely of himself I did my
damndest and that is all a mule could
have done" he said. Il might
II not thought extradition pro-
ceedings against me in Juarez
would fail, l should not have remained
there the two weeks that did w hen
/ did escape, 1t was with the IDEA OF
returning to Huntsville and surrender
ing. for I was never meant TO be an
escaped convict. L knew that L owed 1t
to myself and to my friends to go
back. If L had not broken my foot N
my fall from the wall Of the Juarez
jaiI. 1 would be in Huntsville today.
Escape Was Easy.
our escape from the JuareZ Jail
was easy They have a guard of five
soldiers in there with the prisoners,
but every night at dusk, those soldiers
wrap themselves up in their blankets
and 90 to sleep. All we had to do was
to saw the bars in the rear of the
yard and hike.
In jumping down from the walls, I
landed hard on my left foot and broke
it. Andres Gales, who escaped with
me, carried me for two blocks when Ise
saw what had happened to me Then
1 got Il carriage and came to this size.
Then I went to a rOoming house, left
there and went to another place and
finally went to the house on Missouri
street, where 1 was arrested 1 don't
want to say where the other places
were that 1 stopped. 1 was in bed all
the time that I was there, or 1 would
have gone to Huntsville.
Goes to Honduras.
I ran away rom the Imperial
state farm, where 1 was engaged IN
clerical work. on March 20, 1912
went from there TO Houston, then to
New Orleans. from there to Spanish
Honduras, where I got the tropical
fever, which caused me to return to
New Orleans. Leaving New Orleans
again. 1 went to Pensacola, Fla, back
to New Orleans and then to COrinto,
Nicaragua, but there was a war down
there and they would not let US land,
so 1 went back to Guaymas, Mex over
to NOgales and Tucson, came here and
went to JuareZ, where 1 was put in
Jail, and then came back here, intend
ing to return to Huntsville as soon
as my foot got better.
Z worked some Of the time I was
not. There were friends who believed
in me and stuck to me. In my travels
1 saw many people I knew, but they
did not see me, because 1 purpOsely !
avoided them.
In January, 1907, I was sent up for |
Killing Charlie Miller at MeXia. down in /
Limestone county 1 had killed him IL 1
a drunken brawl. cutting his thrOdt 1
with a knife. He was not armed; it 1
waska prohibition town and We were /
n a blind tiger I guess that is why /
they gave me a 64-year term. I spent /
two years in the penitentiary behind /
and typewriter, as well as a book |
keeper, they sent me down to the farm. |
had been promised a pardon, but it (
iidn't come and one day I decided to 4
-un away. 1 am SO years old and 4
am going back to serve my term It /
nay be hard, but I have to go back. |
Ny conscience told me that I had to
Ind so I am going cheerfully.''