Will County IL Archives News.....Convict Morris Escaped & Recaptured October 13, 1913
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Du Page County Register [Roselle IL] October 13, 1913
Joliet - Edward Morris, a demented convict known as "Lord Churchill," escaped 
in the snowstorm from the prison farm, where he was gathering cabbages. Morris 
was to have been released in a few days by the board of pardons. He believed 
himself a member of the English family of Churchills.

Joliet - Edward Morris, who escaped from a Joliet penitentiary in a recent 
snowstorm, ignorant that a parole granted him would become effective within 
ten days, was recaptured at Benton Harbor, Mich. The parole will be withdrawn. 
Morris was known by fellow-convicts as the "millionaire kid" because of his 
hallucination that he was a multi-millionaire.

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