The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-04-06
GOVERNOR WILL ASK FOR
RETURN OF 7. u. VAUGHN
10 Issue Requisition Papers Early To-
day Requesting Custody of
Former CarOlinian
SUICIDE is ATTEMPTED
Confined in Straightjacket in Padded
Cell at Tampa-WOman Re-
leased on Parole

Columbia, April 5.-James A. De-
rleux, secretary to Governor Cooper
announced tonight that the Governor
would issue requisition papers on the
Governor Of Florida early tomorrow
Tor the return to South Carolina of
1. e. Earl, who was arrested in
believed to be Thurston U. Vaughn,
who escaped from the State Hospital
for the Insane here two years ago.
DIR. g.. Fred Williams, superinten-
dent of the State Hospital for the In
sane, is confident that Earl and Vau-
ghn are the. same man. Sunday DR..
Williams was informed by a former
Columbian who was in Tampa that he
had seen the man he believed to be
Vaughn. Later developments led to
the arrest of the man, and a woman
who was a former nurse at the State
Hospital it is stated.
The Governor will dispatch the
proper official of the law to Florida
to bring Vaughn back to Columbia,
II the requisition papers are honored.
Vaughn escaped in 1919 while an
inmate in the State Hospital for the
Insane. He had been convicted of a
charge of assaulting young girls who
were inmates of the Odd Fellows Or
phanage in Greenville. He was SEN
fenced to die in the chair, but was ad-
judged insane. After being in the
asylum for several years the Grand
Lodge Of Odd Fellows asked that his
mental status be again investigated
and it was while this was being con-
sidered that Vaughn made his escape.
Tampa, Fla, April 5.-Mrs. II. u.
Vaughn, formerly nurse in the State
Insane Asylum at Columbia, S. C. who
was. arrested here yesterday with her
husband Il. u. Vaughn an escape from
that institution was paroled in custody
OF friends by the local police today,
pending arrival Of officers from Co
lumhia.
Vaughn and his wife have been liv-
ing at Port Tampa City, nine miles
from here, for several months as "Mr.
and Mrs. Il. A. Earl" and Vaughn had
secured the position of assistant prin-
cipal in the public school there.
Mrs. Vaughn, the police state, init
mated today that her husbands name
IS Vaughn and that he is the man
who escaped from the South Carolina
institution, to which he was committed
as insane after he had been condemned
to die in the electric chair after con-
four young girls at the Odd Fellows
Orphanage near Greenville, S. C.
Vaughn is in the county Jail here,
confined in straightiacket in a padd-
ed cell. He made three attempts to
take his life after being arrested YES
tterday, but aside from a slight cash
IN his throat which he inflicted with a
penknife he sustained no injury.
Greenville, april 5.-Undcr an or
der signed by Judge j. F. Peurifoy
here in September, 1919, it is expected
that L. U: Vaughn, said to have been
arrested in Tampa, Fla, will be
brought to Greenville shortly after he
is returned to this State for an cx-
ANIMATION as to his sanity, it was said
by Solicitor David w. Smoak TODAY.
Vaughn escaped from the State Hos
pltal for the Insane before the order
was executed.
1t was pointed out today by j. r.
Martin, former solicitor, at whose in
stance the order was issued, that
Vaughn has never been adjudged in
sane, but was committed to the insane
asylum with the consent of a former
solicitor some years after his con-
vlctlon for attacking several girls at
the Orphanage in 1912. The movement
to have him sent here for examination
as to his sanity was started by the
Odd Fellows State organization,
which owns the Orphanagc near
Greenvile, at which Vaughn is al
legged to have committed the attack.
AT his trial here Vaughn waived
his plea of not guilty and entered a
plea of guilty, throwing himself on
the mercy Of the court, and on the
stand made full statement. The Jury
returned verdict of "guilty," includ-
ing no recommendation.