Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1916 — Prison Better Than Camp. [ARTICLE]

Prison Better Than Camp.

Montgomery, Ala.—Felix Smith, white, a convict serving two years for embezzlement, escaped from ■ the turpentine camp, near the Florida line, and walsed 200 miles back to the penitentiary rather than suffer the abuses which he said were heaped upon him in the camp. He walked into the penitentiary and told the warden that he had escaped so he could “come back home.’’ Smith has served eight months and most likely will not be sent back to the camp.