Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-12-29
ANOTHER JAIL DELIVERY.
TEN PRISONERS BREAK JAIL.
Two ARE kECAPTURED.
The Omcers AFTER the Resr.

The Omeers After the Rest.
An extensive jail delivery took place at the
County Jail last night. Oar readers will re-
member the one in October last, in which the
prisoners took advantage Of defective lock
in the inner door leading into their hall
to unlock 1t, and, when the Jsiler enter
ed to lock them in their cells for the night,
to throw it open, knock the Jailsr down and
make their escape. The breaking Of jail last
night was effected in nearly the same man
ner. The lock of the inner door had been
repaired but in some way the prisoners had
obtained key which unlocked it and when
JaiIer Whitney opened the outer Of the doors
leading to their hall, in order to enter, and
lock them in their cells for the night, they
threw open the inner door and made rush
to escape. Whitney was knocked down with
a heavy club and somewhat injured. A WO-
man servant in the prison, who was near by,
and who ran up and caught hold of one of
the escaping prisoners, also received severe
blow on the head.
Ten Of the prisoners escaped before the
jailer could again close and lock the door Of
the prison. Two were, however, reeaPtured
almost Immediately, one by NJ. Gallagher,
Esq, who happened to be passing, and one
by Mr.. Whitney, who ran after and overlook
him. The rest, by dint of hard running.
made their escape for the present. We
give below the names of those still at large,
with the crimes for which they we're commit
/ ted:
James Welsh, grand larceny.
James Kstely, horse stealing.
Andrew Campbell, black grand larceny.
Benjamin Coleman,
Willis Jones,
William Forrest,
George B. Valentine, forgery.
Horace Fleming, petit larceny.
The four colored men are the deck hands
of the propeller Portsmouth, committed on
charge Of robbing goods in her cargo. They
are all very black, Valentine is the conf
dence man and forgsr, whose arrest and ex-
animation we noticed some weeks since. He
is about fifty, with grizzIsd, irOn-gray hair.
Fleming bears several liases. He was COM
mittsd under the name of Charles W. Wor-
den. Welsh is chiefly recognizable from the
fact that he has weak and sore eyes.
The affair occurred about i've O'Clock yes.
terdsy evening. Nineteen were confined in
the jail, of which eleven are now left.
The officers are hard at work tracking up
the fugitives, and we confidently expect that
most Of them will be soon recsptured.
From the OIL ReEiOn--FrnnkIIn BILLS.
EDITORS LEADER
This village, located on the cuyahOga
river, in Portage county, bids fair to become
| one of the most thriving internal towns in
Northern Ohio. The county aroundsit Is in
a high state of cultivation, the soil extremely
fertile, producing abundant crops Of both
grain and grass, as we'll IS potatoes and
other edible roots. In the village is q never
failing water power, sufficient for all wants,
and the quarries of sandstone can never be
exhausted. There are two Touring mills,
two saw mills, one Eoollen factory, and
building was erected by Zsnss Kent, Esq,
ten or twelve years ago for cotton factory,
the walls and roof Of which cost forty thous-
and dollars, most substantial and imposing
structure, four stories high. There is one
good and capacious brick hotel and ten or
twelve handsome brick stores, now all Oecu-
pied, and more room wanted.
Three blocks of brick buildings, erected
as long ego as 1886, and were expected to form
the nucleus of large village which would
soon spring up. Bank was started, which
vas under the control of the Franklin SILK
Company, the bills of which were current as
late as 1888. It was expected at that time
that thOee who did not gain untold wealth
out Of town lots would become nabobs from
the raising eff silk worms, and in that day of
speculation it was thought that the fortunate
possessor of few sprouts Of the Chinese
ssorus Taultieaulis had q source Of never ending
wealth. All the citizens will remember the
late Barbour Clsrk's silk house. The writer
of this heard him say that he never wanted to
leave better legacy for child of his than
one eff these mulberry sprouts big enough for
a riding whip. he made a sale of mulberry
trees to the Pendletons, and if none of them
got any richer they all gained wisdom.
Mr.. Kent, in 1882, bought six hundred and
forty acres of land, which embraces large
part of the village, which we believe he still
owns, and which will be pretty sure to be-
come Of great value, under the impetus CIV
en- by the construction Of the Atlantic 4 |
Great Western Railroad through it. The |
Company have wisely selected this point fer |
the location Of the construction and repair |
shops of the Ohio division of the road, and |
already a series of immense stone buildings |
are in process Of erection, the first one Of
which, nearly Eve hundred feet long and |
two hundred wide, ia about half completed |
The work is to be pushed along IS fast as
possible and not many months will elapse |
before hundreds of operatives and the tire
less power Of the steam engine will make it |
hive of Industry. The site is admirably |
chosen for the health and comfort of the ope- |
ratlves, beauty of location, oheapness of |
living and easy access to coal, iron and |
choice lumber, as we'll as other building ma |
teriaI.
Old John Brown, whose memory will never |
perish, once lived here, and the building be-
tween the canal and river, just below the |
station house, was erected by him. he pre- |
dieted great things fer Franklin Mills, which |
seem now likely to he fulfilled. For the |
resurrection Of this town from its slumbers Of
the past Eve and twenty years the citizens
are indebted more to Marvin Kent, Esq, |
than to any other man. BE projected, |
and obtained the charter for, the railroad |
which has already become one Of the most
important lines of transportation in this
country, and when completed to st. Louis
will form the longest unbroken line Of rail-