Moments in Time is a collection of recovered newspaper briefs and other publications, compiled by local historian, Steve Hathcock, offering a look back at the history of the Rio Grande Valley.
Steve Hathcock is a local historian and a regular columnist for the Port Isabel South Padre Press. He has spent many years collecting and sharing the history of the Rio Grande Valley, as well as treasure hunting and formerly owning an Island-based bookstore.
HOUNDS PUT ON
JAIL BREAKER’S
TRAIL LIKE HIM
HOUSTON, March 2.—(AP)—Edwin McHugh, a prisoner at the city farm, made a clean getaway Friday—bloodhounds and all. He smashed a bunkhouse window and fled with three fellow inmates, who, being less fortunate, were captured. Three of the farm’s fiercest bloodhounds were set on McHugh’s trail. The prisoner plunged into a bayou and swam across. The hounds followed, and were supposed, like all good bloodhounds, to tree McHugh. Instead, they took a liking to him and followed at his heels. They followed him to a city park where McHugh, announcing he was a prison guard after a fugitive, asked a keeper to accept custody of the dogs, explaining: “I haven’t time to dally with the hounds. “Four hours later prison guards found the dogs. They were asleep near the park keeper. McHugh? They don’t know where he is.
The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), March 3, 1935.
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