Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-04-30
LOVE DIRE VI MAN
BACK TO PRISON
RETURNS TO SEE MOTHER
AND THE OFFICERS
GET HIM

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Ifged and invalid mother more inan
/ le loved liberty y s. Chance. vho
escaped from tho state re'orma'oy
~ Granite. june q 1910. bog voiun'
Isriiy returned io the pris1l to serve
mo remainder Of o. two-year term ioi
horse theft There was % addition
IuI Incentive that 1roughi THIS YOUNG
man from ranch In California
straight 10 the eo ernor Of Oklaho'
ma girl Some lay mar sir' OK
poets 10 become iHe wife %. % FORMER
refugee from justice. but t0' until h'
| has cleared hia name
/ Chance RETURN 20 Oklahoma a'
/ tbr aae Of 20. mo hero d. % reyoiu.
/ lion FOO Mexico ile was colder in
Ith, remnant regiment OF colonel Nee-
Iey. himself desorter fron the Inii-
Ied states army aud firt'or in ihf
Command OF captain lack anley Rho
ita. killed 300 me battle a M"xicala,
100 February l'll
didn't need 10 tell that little
Ir,rI in California that ! Has 600 es-
lpad convict. says Chance, for
hr probably would fH,e never
aupau TO- 30 acil dld conceal my
IDENTIFY But . ana gla that my
uhmD aiIl not have a stain RhDn ]
efuru 10 claim her wanted most
of 900 20 ape nay poor mothrr and tour
.urr sisters Nt moth g. old
ud Oh. aud she needs my pre- aud at
aurou Since leaving o.. sister had
died of tuberculosis and another one
weak % NiII bc worf0 Gar more
cham fhe pleasure Of b,ua rryo-
lutiouary soldier COR OF ranch life in
Nesf tu live quietly at home HItN my
mother
Chance pleaded gull fo horse
fuIIug bcfrop District Judge r.
Mcmillan at sulphur IN l"l1aud vas
given sentence of Two ytars Boo pr,s-
900 Ile SERVED nine month and eight
lass in the state pouiten'Iary af Ne
AIlIstor. pending tbe erection ui the
rcfurmatory at Granite and was
transferred 10 tho latter institution
iu MAY. 1910
= didn't stay AZ Granite long
enough 10 got aoalaint'l with The
warden say Chance didn't even
know his name -Four days was
enough Tor mc with 80 many chances.
Another chap aud tool daytime Tor
'he Uight And % was some flight
believe me. For hours kc ran aud
rested alternately. and many times
heard the hounds on our trail But
they never were vert close Friends
assisted mr in the escape. and when !
boarded Rock Island train 1t RFHn
bound for Mexico ! had somc money,
% reyolyp. and plent, of ANN ult'uH
For -Four laws aud nilhts my pal wnd
acre hiding In aud around p.
Paso uo vas q bad chap 10 bad .1r
mo llc wanted 10 DO many Hrou-
deeds that didn't appeal to mo-. 500
deserted him and vent into Me-,
leo
Near thc line of California Chan
struck up with captain Jack Staupt.
when that Young fellow was cous.I'.
ling raising an army that would
capture the adjoining state OF MpN.1
and aue, 10 20 the nited state
one after another N, cowboys dra'
cd into o., camp OF SIanely and
u8Iy ibc little arm vas organ 2
and equipped The first day oul tH.t
cugusrd ju tour battle with the N",.
leans. and shortly hereafter capHr-
.cd th, custom house and prison z
NDNi,lIa and liberated thirty N..
can prisoners
Chau,n became of OF the best
broueho riders u California aai
could have had place In the arena
.of Wild west SHOW Naturally H.
went under an assumed name Do.
permitted his mustJ.he to grow aHI
30 bccomr long aud uxuriant W
associated occasiouaIls with men n
California whom uy lad known U
oklahoma but was H.. er recognized
Every meeting with flese men, ho.
ever. was a signal that he had better
move into another community guI
he was constantly changing jobs li,
attended dance one night near The
ranch on which he worked and dane
ga many times with "a young woman
who had known MIN in Oklahoma.
bat vas never recogn zed.