"MURDERED MAN" ALIVE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 18 April 1910, Page 5

"MURDERED MAN" ALIVE.

TWENTY YEARS IN GAOL THROUGH JUDICIAL ERROR. ' A former cattle dealer named Soger Williams has just been liberated from a Texas prison as a result of the astounding discovery that Bernard Carter, the man he is convicted of murdering is alive and well. Williams was condemned to 40 years' imprisonment, and had served half his sentcncc. Thi history of judicial blunders contains few more startling and dramatic incidents than this. Williams and Carter quarrelled as far back as 1890. Meeting on a cattle trail they drew knives. Williams stabbp'i Carter and flung him into the Pecos River. Weeks later a decomposed body floated up and was identified as that of Carter. The identification was erroneous, for Carter was rescued in an unconscious condition from tne river and sent to hospital at Paso. After his recovery he drifted in -° Central America, returning with a large fortune 10 years ago to settle v.i Seattle. Some days ago Carter was reading an account of enormities P'^ 1 -' tised in the gaols of Texas, when he noticed the 'name of Williams amorg those of other prisoners who had made statements on the subject. His -uriositv was moused, and on inquiry he discovered to his infinite amazement that Williams, who he suppose-i had fled the country and escaped arrest was actually serving a tor.y rears' sentence for murdering him. Carter, moving with much ener *[?- '.-.as now secured a P ardon for iiams. whom he is providing with a e „od home for the rest of his life. Williams, who was 33 when airbed is now a bent and (premature* man. He burst into tears rten informed that be to free V the very man lie was said to lu . c murdered.