The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-07

his household, also were specified in
the memorandum.
never been insane and that he was
guilty of the charges he is accused
of. She left the hospital before Earl
made his escape, she said.
| Earl came to Tampa first, she is
claimed to have told the officers, and
to have then sent for her. She came
! to this city and they were married
here, according to her statement.
After her attempt to take her life.
she was placed in cell and is being
held until information is received
from South Carolina authorities to
learn if she is implicated in any way
with the case in that state.
T. U. Vaughn escaped from the
State Hospital September Is, 1919.
Vaughn was formerly superintendent
Of the Odd Fellows home in Greenville
an has been under death sentence
since 1912 for criminally aSsaulting
some of the little girls at the or
phanage. He was in the State. Hos
pital several years for observation as
to his sanity.
Twice since the escape in 1919 DR..
C.. Fred Williams, superintendent of
the hospital, has had leads on the
fugitive, but both times the "tips"
proved false. Once a man from the
hospital was sent to the Virginia
mountains to identify suspect, but
the man provede not to be Vaughn.
Again a man was sent to Hayne City,
Fla, but was never able to locate
the man supposed to be Vaughn. Last
Sunday DR.. Williams got his first in
formation of the missing man. He
received a telegram from former
Columbian at Tampa in which he said
he had located Vaughn and former
nurse at the state hospital. DR.. Will
liams conferred with Governor Coop
er and Chief Richardson and then
wired to get in touch with the Tampa
chief of police and have Vaughn ar
rested. Chief Richardson also wired
the Tampa chef to arrest the man
suspected of being Vaughn. The Tam
pa officer Monday night advised Chief
Richardson that he had arrested
Vaughn upon Identification of the
former Columbian.
To Be Resentenced.
Saturday before the escape Of
Vaughn from the hospital Judge
Peurifoy had ordered that Vaughn be
brought before him in Greenville for
resentence to die in the electric chair
and it was thought at the time that
in some way the patient heard of this
and made his escape.
The escape was made some time
Monday night, September Is, 1919, and
was discovered early Tuesday morn
ing. It will be recalled that the pa
tient had placed a dummy" in the
led and this had deceived attendants
until the room was entered to awake
Vaughn for breakfast Tuesday morn
ing. The dummy" was made OF
clothes that Vaughn had been max
ing in his room by stuffing these
clothes into a pair Of overalls and
throwing the bed covering over the
"fgure".
Vaughn was first convicted OF
criminally assaulting the little girls
in the orphanage, of which he was
superintendent October 26, 1912. He
was sentenced to be electrocuted De-
cember 20, 1912, and this same SEN
tence i. still hanging over his head
An appeal was taken to the supreme
court and the lower court was at,
firmed. Attorneys then appealed to
the United States supreme court ano
again the lover court was affirmed
In the meantime Vaughn, then in the
Greenville county Jail, escaped ano
was not caught until more than
year later when he was recognized
by a South Carolinian in Baltimore
and arrested.
Question as to Sanity.
From his arrest in Baltimore
| Vaughn was brought to the state