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Carved His Way To Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Detroit, Mich., Aug. 13.–Private Charles W. Robinson, Co. E, Fourteenth United States infantry, a prisoner awaiting trial at Port Wayne, charged with desertion, carved his way out of the fort hospital to liberty during the night, traded his night shirt for a suit of clothes, and was scot free before the escape was discovered in the morning at 5 o'clock. Robinson is said to be a bad man.