Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-12

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and Gillespie affected to escape while Mo-
gan was retained and brought to Colum
bus to be tried for the alleged murder {
Beebe.
The prisoner was brougt to Columbu
on the SOth day of August last, and Of
being committed to the Franklin count,
Jail, became submissive and behaved vel
He appeared penitent; often sought 70
advice of teachers of religion, ard read witt
| avidity books brought to him for perusal
As to the homicide charged upon him, h
did not deny it. The jailor, Mr.. John r
Cool, by his attentions and kind manner O
bestowing them, won the attachment of th,
prisoner, who manifested corresponding
feelings, unbroken by any acts indicating {
purpose to effect escape, until the night o
Monday, the 10Th October. Intimation
then reached the jailor that Morgan
who TO that time had privilege of the hall
in which were confined prisoners charged
with crime of lighter grades, was arrang
ing a scheme with Others to break jail be-
fore the time of trial, which period was
then approaching. On Tuesday. the fol
lowing day, Morgan was left in his cell
and not permitted further range of the ball
He retained on his legs the same iron:
which encompassed them when he came
from Wisconsin. Suspecting that prepara
tons were being made by the prisoner &c
escape, on Tuesday afternoon about
o'clock the jailor, attended by two gentle.
men, went TO the cell door and asked Nor
gan to get up from bis bed and come to the
door to speak to the gentlemen.
He declined, fleming sickness. On en-
tering, the jailor, anticipating that his con-
fnenent 10 the bed was ruse to hide
the evidence OF, what had been done, basti-
ly threw up the quilt from his legs, and
disclosed that the feiters were not en- his
limbs, but that he was free. Morgan
sprang from the pallet, laughing, and COM
ing TO the hall door where the gentlemen
were, acknowledged that his plan was to
await the jailor's entrance alone in the cell,
when he, without hurting him, intended to
turn jailor in and himself out, locking the
door and seeking thus to escape. One
portion of the broken irons was found in
the bed, and the other in his room bucket.
The smith was brought, heavier irons rivet-
ed to his legs that night, and no further de-
velopments were made until last Sunday,
the 25th October.
The prisoner had been permitted to re-
tain in his cell small black oil cloth car
pet sack containing nothing but Clothes
Claiming to have pain in the back, the
physician had allowed him some sticking
plaster. On Sunday, examination was
made of The irons, which apparently were
secure, but that evening, when the jailor re-
paired to the ward in which was the cell of
Morgan, and adjoining it that of DR.. Car
roll, of Reynoldsburg, in this county, who
had been confined on two charges of pass
ing counterfeit money in this city, and
who was purchaser of better fare than
other prisoners; as was his won't TO give
them light and air, he first threw open the
cell of the Doctor, and as soon as the bolt
of the lock on the cell of Morgan was turn
ed, M. leaped forth freed of his fetters, and
caught the jailor and said, "Now, John,
you must go into the Doctors CELL" and
the two scuffled awhile till the Doctor came
and pushed while Morgan pulled the jailor
somewhat near the cell door, into which
the party reeled, but the jailor got out, the
Doctor giving but Indifferent aid TO Nor
gan, who became so enraged at the cow
ardice and Indifference of DR.. Carroll that
be abandoned further effort with the jailor,
and proceeded to kick and pummel unmer-
cifnlly the bastard Doctor, as be called him,
following him into bis cell and beating him
until he was nearly blind and senseless.-
The jailor in the meantime made his way
to the Office and gave alarm, and by the
time he and assistance came to the recent
scene of conflict, the Doctor was literally a
kicked son of Esculapius, coiled in corner
while the enraged Morgan was pacing up
and down his cell, cursing the great old
kicked for pusillanimous, chicken-hearted,
yellow-livered quack.
The rivets of the heavy irons had been
sawed of before Sunday morning, by an
impromptu saw, made by tearing out
the thin iron plate circling the opening
part of the old carpet-bag, and, to deceive
the jailor on inspection, the rivets had been
held in their places by application of the
adhesive part of a portion of the plaster
the major part of the plaster was design
ed, if necessary, to be applied to the mouth
of Cool, on Sunday afternoon, to prevent
his cries being heard, if the DR.. had play
ed his part as cast for him by the star per-
former.
On Sunday night, the heavy irons,
weighing perhaps Is pounds, the same
which were on the limbs of Clark, the mur-
derer, were then fastened on Morgan, and
for fear he had some where secreted means
of breaking his irons, he was placed in an
other cell.
On Tuesday night last, the jailor was
absent on account of sickness in his family,
and Morgan threatened death to any one
offering 10 enter bis cell, and exhibited un-
expectcdly to all, two immense stones with
which he threatened to demolish any one
presuming to intrude into his apartment,
The jailor arising in the morning entered
Morgan's cell and found that in spite Of
his irons he had torn away the board floor
underneath his bed, and had dug hole
nearly through the wall dividing his room
from dungeon, which, if he had succeed
ed in reaching, would have availed him nc
more than to have furnished him two Sc
cure apartments. Up to the time of the
trial, which was commenced on Friday af
ternoon, the prisoner has been not only
lALlIal h,,t .nananlod Since the dacis