Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1916 — ESCAPED PRISONER CAPTURED IN NEWTON [ARTICLE]

ESCAPED PRISONER CAPTURED IN NEWTON

Joe Warbritton, Who Escaped From Penal Farm and Joined Army, Will Be Sent to Reformatory.

Joe Warbritton, the overgrown la-1 who was arrested last spring for beating his mother at their home in Fair Oaks, and gffte n a sentence at the penal farm, from which he escaped - « fuw days later, has been apprehended, and will be tried for his escape from the penal farm and sent to the reformatory at Jeffersonville. Warbritton before his arrest joined the local militia company here, but was discharged for some offense. After his escape from the penal farm he joined the army and was recently discharged and returned to Mt. Ayr. Shyviff McColly learned he'was there and Saturday evening arrested him.. Warbritton, when taken in charge kv the sheriff, said he would just as soon be sent to Jeffersonville as to live in M,t. Ayr.

The law provides that where a prisoner escapes from the penal farm and is apprehended, that he shall oe tried for the escape and upon conviction shall be sent to the reformatory or to the state prison for a term of from two to five years. Owing to his I age Warbritton will be sent to the reformatory-. “ ~ The prisoner was turned over T ,o Sheriff Harris, of Putnam countv, Sunday, who took him to Greencastb for trial. >