MURDERER'S BID FOR LIBERTY

Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 3

MURDERER'S BID FOR LIBERTY

The story of an assassin’s unsuccess- f ful attempt to escape from his Northern F Argentine prison by feigning death is reported from Buenos Aires. Jose t Domingo Sosa was sentenced to a long & term of imprisonment for murder, lie r had made several previous attempts to escape, but was not discouraged by his | failures, lie was allowed to receive r visitors, and it appears that one of fc them supplied him with a narcotic to F carry out his plan. One morning he | failed to respond to the call of the p, guard, and upon investigation his body | was found stilf and cold upon the hard I door of his cell. Littered around were I letters of farewell to the inspector, re- |i latives, and friends. The “corpse” | was duly placed in the morgue and I: preparation made to hand it over to | the waiting relatives. Before the final I departure from the prison could be so- | cured the death certificate had to be #■ signed. Wh lie casually examining the 11. “ corpse ” the director of the local | health board became suspicious, and | discovered that, tlie “dead” man was f merely under the inllneneo of an un- F known narcotic. Jose Domingo Sosa [■. returned to prison with a slightly big- [■ ger sentence, while the attending fc hearse, coffin, and sorrowing relatives departed. [•