Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — ESCAPED “LIFER" CAPTURED NEAR KOUTS FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

ESCAPED “LIFER" CAPTURED NEAR KOUTS FRIDAY

Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. B.—John Vaughan, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, and who escaped on Monday, was captured today eight miles south of this city. With him was Walter Young, aged 13, a Michigan City school boy. who disappeared at the same time. Vaughan told officers who captured him that he was on his way to his old 'home in Lafayette. He had been attempting to secure permission to visit his old home for some time 'before his escape. Vaughan was convicted May 5, 1907, of the murder of Elizabeth. Strobel, a young girl.