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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY. APRIL 10, 1981
Dallas inmate escapes
from police, kills himself
United Press International
DALLAS — A Dallas County
Jail inmate, deciding he would
rather die than possibly spend his
life in prison, escaped from police
custody while in a hospital and kil
led himself.
Allen Larry Smith, 38, shot
himself when the stolen truck he
was driving broke down near the
Ellis County farm from where he
took it.
Police said the inmate’s wife
was with him in the truck. Police
reports indicate the two apparent
ly had a suicide pact, but police
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quoted the woman later as saying
that when she turned the gun on
herself it failed to fire.
Smith’s wife, Betty Jean
Wooton Smith, was in the back of
the truck at the time the inmate
put the pistol to his head. She told
police that just before he shot him
self, Smith said: “It’s no use trying
anymore. We are caught.”
The suicide came nine hours af
ter Smith escaped from Parkland
Memorial Hospital where he was
being treated for an infected bul
let wound. Smith was facing a pos
sible life term on charges of parole
violation and being a habitual
felon.
Police said Smith’s wife visited
him Tuesday night and they be
lieve she smuggled him a pistol.
Smith apparently overpowered a
guard at the hospital Tuesday
night — stabbing the guard with
intravenous hospital needles —
and was driven to a hotel in Ennis.
Police said at the hotel, they
found a suicide note written by
Smith and his wife.
Smith’s wife told police her
attempt to kill herself failed when
the pistol did not fire. Mrs. Smith,
her son, Mike Hill Lee Wooton,
20, and a family friend, Newanna
Yvonne Stover of Waxahachie,
were later charged with aiding an
escape.
They were being held in the
county jail in lieu of $2,500 bail
each. Smith’s last arrest was on
March 10 for allegedly carrying a
weapon in violation of his parole
terms.
Police said in the suicide note
found at the hotel, Mrs. Smith
stated that her husband “would
rather be dead than be locked up
anymore. We have chosen either
to live in the world together or
leave it together. You see, Larry
really never had a chance because
he was a ex-convict.
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LIBERTY — Children of hys
teria-prone people are likely to
become hysterical too, a psychiat
rist testified Thursday in the child
custody case of Vickie Daniel.
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she had with former Texas House
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sister, Jean Murph of Richardson,
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SACHSE — No one can accuse voters here of shirking their const!'
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This Northeast Dallas County town, according to records, hath
total of 406 voters registered to vote in last Saturday’s elections.
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