Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1915 — First Prisoner to Escape Caught. [ARTICLE]

First Prisoner to Escape Caught.

The first man to escape from the state penal farm at Putnamville is Clifford Hurst, sentenced for running a blind tiger. Hurst ran away from the farm Tuesday afternoon and was captured Wednesday. Officials think that this will serve as a lesson to the rest of the prisoners and that they will have no more trouble.