MUTE FOR FIFTEEN YEARS.
I MAN ESCAPES HANGING. In fear lest a word should, let slip the hangman's lassoo suspended above his head, Charles Carson, once a notorious bandit, has been silent for 15 years in an. Amerii can mental hospital, where he has just died.
Carson's prison record began in New York when no was nino years old. When a man, he was sentenced to bo hanged for tho Folsom Penitentiary crime of 15 years ago. With six other couvicta bo seized trio warden, Captain J. R. Murphy, and a guard. Attempting to escape, the convicts held their captives in front of them as shields. All nine were wounded when the other prison guards opened fire. Four of the seven convicts died.
While awaiting execution, Carson stopped talking. No expert could decide whether he was mad or dumb-struck or feigning. He was committed to a mental hospital, and there watched for 15 years i but be never spoke.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)
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