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A BREAK FOR LIBERTY

Convict Shot at Farmers Branch Camp by Guard - Made Good Run.

Special to the News.
Farmers Branch, Tex., Dec. 23, This afternoon a colored convict made a break for liberty at the camp near hear, and was shot by a guard while running, the charge taking effect in the back of the head. The prisoner ran about one and one-half miles after being shot, but was overhauled and given medical and surgical attention. The physician pronounces his wound quite serious.

The Dallas Morning News - December 24, 1905
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams


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