Henry Cato


He escaped in 1908 from the Sherman Jail with several others.

A paragraph reads; At this time Henry Cato, who was held on an indictment charging him with murder of Alvin Frizzell, also escaped. All of the prisoners were taken but Cato, who killed himself at the home of his father near the Collin county line.


Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Sun Jan 12, 1908

McKinney, Texas, Jan 11-Henry Frizzel near the Collin and Grayson county line, who escaped from the Sherman jail yesterday , shot himself at his home near Graybill today, with a shotgun. He cannot recover.

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Here is the story; The Daily Courier-Gazette, McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 27 1921