REPORTED ESCAPED.

It is reported that John Greer, who last winter killed his uncle and a deputy sheriff of Waller county near Pattison, has escaped from the penitentiary, whither he was sent for five years.

"Reported Escaped." The Galveston Daily News, Sunday, July 20, 1879. P. 1, col. 4.

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