The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-10
FUGITIVE TURNED UP"
BY DAUGHTERS SU|TOR
GEORGIA N WHO ESCAP E D
FROM PEN BETRAYED BY
WOULD-BE SON-IN-LAW.
FAMILY EPROMINENT In Triton
I. B. Hall, Once Sentenced to Hang
For Murder, Escaped From Dodge
County Gang. Loyal Wife Will Seek
Clemency for Him.

SACA1ASh(y lOA A1AAll-
TIFTON, Ga.-A story that reads
like romance-and it is romance
comes from down near Leesburg, Fla.
1t concerns a man who was once SEN
fenced to hang, his sentence commut-
ed, his escape from the chain gang,
living seven years as worthy citizen
under a new name, and finally betray-
ed by one whom he trusted only to
return to felon's garb and felon's
punishment.
Nearly ten years ago l. B. Hall, a
respectable citizen of Triton and
prominently and il quentially connect
ed here, was charged with killing
Dennis Hall. The men were not relat-
ed. Dennis Hall was called out of his
house and shot DOWN In the trial that
followed |. B. Hall was convicted and
sentenced hang. His wife stood by
him in the trial. His case was carried
to the governor and Governor Slaton
finally committed the. sentence to life
imprisonment. Hall went to the chain
gang and after serving several months
or a year, was picked up by the road
side in Dodge county, where he was
serving his sentence, one day and
whisked away in an automobile. 1t
was said that a woman was driving
the car, and it was suspected his wife
was his accomplice in the sensational
escape.
Trusted Daughters Suitor.
Nothing was heard from him again.
His wife and family also disappeared
and were seen no more. Hall located
in Florida, near Leesburg. His wife
and children Joined him there. He
changed his name to ]. R. Forester
and no one suspected him of being a
fugitive from justice. He engaged in
farming and truck-growing and was
doing we'll. His daughter, in the
meantime, had grown to young wo-
manhood and was wooed by young
man of that section. They became en-
gagged to marry. The time for the
marriage had been practically agreed
upon.
Hail. or Forester, took the young
man into his confidence. He told him
that he did not want him to marry
his daughter without knowing the
truth. Then he confided to the sutton
that his name was not Forester, but
Hall, that he had killed man in
Georgia, had been sentenced to hard
labor and had escaped. He told the
young man that he was trying to make
good in the world, that he was forced
to do what he had done but that he
wanted him to know the facts before
the marriage. He made clean state
ment, according to the reports which
come here.
Turned Up"
But the voting man was made of
coarser metal. He not only broke off
the engagement, but he notified the
officers that Forester was none other
than l. B. Hall, fugitive from JUS
tice in Georgia, and thus caused his
arrest and return to a Georgia con-
vict camp. The family is broken up
and Mrs. Hall was here this week
She hopes to get executive clenency
for her husband, and is soliciting the
assistance of some of her friends here.
Hall is said to have taken the turn
in affairs philosophically. He says:
II would rather spend twenty years
on the changing than to have had
my daughter marry the man who has
betrayed me-"
Every phase of the case has been
sensational in the past, and his arrest
and return to the Georgia convict
gang, with the impending fight for
his freedom gives it a new interest
throughout this section.
When Halls death sentence was
committed to life Imprisonment in pen
itentiary he was sent to the state farm
where he was useful for some time in
the tailoring department. After work
ing there several months he was
transferred to the Dodge county pen
itentiary camp, and short time af-
terward made his escape in the man
ner described above.
In the fight to save his life Hall
had the assistance of many influential
relatives and friends.