Searching for closure re Ben Gooch, (Benjamin Franklin Gooch), born Texas in 1859-60., who shot a man in Silver City, NM in 1912,
Escaped the City Jail, captured 2 years later in Oregon, using assumed name. Returned to Silver City, NM.
Escaped NM again and no trace of him has been found.

Some family members think he may have returned to Texas, remarried.
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