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ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED. William Smith Back Behind Penitentiary Barn.?Made hia Escape from the Infirmary with Harry Dean. News and Courier. Columbia, October 19.?William I Smith, one of the two convicts who I escaped from the slate penitentiary on the night of October 10, is again behind the prison walls, llis confederate, Harry Dean, is still at large, as arc the two convicts, Walter Allen and Jim Sudduth, who got out a few days after Dean and Smith. Smith was captured last night at liis uncle's home, near Ionian, by hv) penitentiary guards, Sondlov* and A Harley, who !cit Columbia yesterday f morning on tlie early traii\ for neigh^ borhood of Sitnth'sold home, in SparI tanburg county. Sure enough they I found- Smith in the field with his uncle [ in the upper portion of Spartanburg, and at once made arrangements' to | bring him back to the penitcntiarv. I They arrived early this morning and when Superintendent Griffith went to his office this morning he had a long talk with Smith, in which Smith told how he and Dean got away. The story confirmed the superintendent's theory as to (he escape. At one time Dean had been turnkey - in the main building, and at that time || he had secured a piece of a key V which he used on the night of OctobHf cr 10 to open I we door of the cell in tne old in firm cry, where lie was conL fined. To do this he had to use a H clever device, which'must have taken B him some time to study out. Dean H then aroused Smith and told him to P go with him. Smith now is of the opinHP ion that Dean took him aiong merely . because Dean needed him, as he could | not well got out alone. The two men went ovor the prison wall by tho side f of the Columbia Canal, and their desp cont was perilous, especially as each " man has a lame arm. Smith told Oapt. Griffith that when they got outIside he and Dean came around the penitentiary wall towards the front of the building and passed by the new water-works plant, going towards the railroad track. When they readied the railroad Dean told him to wait a few minutes, that, he thought he could get some clothes, as both men were in prison garb. Within a few minutes Dean returned with a suit for I each of them and with some money, 'and the men then started on their journey. Evidently Dean had a friend nearby, and Capt. Griffith thinks it was either some relative or that it was a former convict who, having served his term, lives near the prison now. Dean and Smith got out of the prison about 2 a. m. They walked to Blythewood, which is on the railroad between here and Charlotte, and there they caught the train which left Columbia at 0 a. m. At Charlotte they separated and Smith went to GastonI ia, where his sisters live, and from r that place to Inman. Me declares he does no| know where Dean went.. W lien Harry Dean was convicted of murder and SO nt lo I he '' pen " for life his brother, Kd. Dean, was a guard at the state prison. ITe handed to ('apt. Griffith his resignation when i he knew his brother was to be a prisoner, and he was then elected to a position on the police force of Columbia, which he later resigned to become guard at the Federal penitentiary. Ed Dean is a young man who f bears a fine reputation among Those who know him, but the fact that he 5 had been in this section about the It i iii-J liis brother escaped made some persons suspicious, ami hcaning the rumors Kd Dean went to ('apt. Griffith and told him lie hoped he was not suspected of aiding Hayy to escape, , as he would certainly have advised him not to do so had he known it. ..Other members of Harry Dean's family have written to him fo the same effect. There has as yet been no news of Walter Allen and Jim Sudduth, the two trusties from the Dark Corner of Greenville county, who walked away from the pnison on the morning of . the 15th. But. they will almost certainly go back to the Dark Corner. It is not difficult at all to understand why Walter G. Allen could not resist the temptation to violate the confidence placed in him and to throw away his chance for pardon. Allen snot and killed his noighbor, Henry Trammell, because, it. is alleged, Tramrnell had insulted Mrs. Allen. He was sent to the "pen" for lift and his friends believed he would soon be pardoned. The case came beforr the pardon board at the October meeting, and if is possible a pardon might then have been recommended and granted, but Allen's attorney has for some months been ill and was unable to appear. He was also unable to have a copy of the testimony for ' > .v '. 4 I lie board to consider at that lime, and iu order to secure this testimony the case was continued until the next meeting. When he went to prison Alton's pretty young wife had to go to work in a cotton mill. Since then one of their two children has died. On Sunday last Allen showed Capt. Griffith a letter Irom his wife, in which she said that her health had broken down, that she had to give up her work and that she did not even have anything to eat, while her child was being deprived of everything a child should have. When Allen gave (be letter to tlic kind-hearted superintendent to f'ad the young mountaineer broke down and cried, for the letter told of tiie woman's disappointment thai he was not to come home to her soon, and in it he read between the lines he might never see her alive. Konr four years Allen has daily had (lie chance l<> steal his freedom, and during Hi at time he has had I he hope of pardon. Two days after the receipt of this pitiful iettver. Alien look his oh a nee. It is not" hard to guess where he will go and when he has seen his wife lie will soon, in all probability, be behind the bars again. Mrs. Allen has written to the guard, Mr. Pressley, that if Walter came home she would send him back to the penitentiary rather than have him hunted over the land. HUBBY MUST TALK TO WIFE HALF HOUR. Chicago, 111.?-Can Municipal Judge Clelland, who has worked such wonderful reforms through his Maxwell str t police court, make a man talk to his wife. Adolph Fielder, a machinist, .who was njTes/ted somo weeks ago as a saloon loafer, has been traimformed into a model husband in every respect but one. His wife says he will not speak a word to her and hasn't for a month. "Why don't you talk?" he asked Fielder. \ ''I used to, but every time I opened my mouth, T got both feet into it, so L cut it out.'' "Now, see here, Fielder," said the judge, "you-ve got to talk to this woman half an hour each day. T don't care how you divide up the time. If you don't I'll take you and your wife into chamber here when you report in two weeks, and T'll make you talk steadily to her for three. And if that don't break the ice, I 'll make you talk for six hours. You may go now, but bring a generous supply of conversation when you come here two weeks from today." John Griffith's current production ol Shakespeare's ''King Richard the Third" although played most effectively by the leading tragic actors of I he past three centuries with the original business and effects devised by the immortal author, and later presented with new ideas and embellishments originated by the famous Colley Gibber, will on the occasion of Mr, Griffith's coming engagement here have many modern bits of business and illustration suggested by the well known London stage manager, Mr. Murray Carson, who likewise conducted several of the finishing rehearsale of the present company. Mr. Carson is a manager and stage producer of long experience and his artistic work in putting on Beerbohm Tree's production of Stephen Phillip's "Herod" drew the attention of theatre-going London to his capability in that direction in a way that will not soon be forgotten. 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