J. Frank Van Horn
was arrested after helping an inmate escape. On This Day in 1944, the
Intelligencer Journal, out of Lancaster ,
reported that Chester County detective Francis Grubb arrested Van Horn who
allegedly helped inmate Hanna Duff, from Lancaster County ,
escape.
Van Horn, 61, was
a painter at the Pennhurst
State School .
He was unable to pay the $400 bail. He knew Duff, 35, when she was committed to
Sleighton Farm. They article does not say what Duff did to be
institutionalized.
Van Horn told police he and Duff had registered at a hotel
in Pottstown as man and wife and were in fact
waiting for their marriage license, as they were to be wed.
On
This Day is a prompt I started this month to further explore historical events.
I will make every effort to keep events localized to that of my research or
research I am conducting for others. However, from time to time, it will simply
be a subject that captured my attention.
©
Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
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