The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-21


Present On anomalous picture in the
heart of9 hit hit adern Society. aalaEoal 4 :
APPEND isketrhSs III the other and
former members Of the bahd, 'hotnov
in the foreground: .aMo.l5na,N lreipi'
George Applewhite is,a regular me-
gro, ofia shrlyy determined look, with
thick features, woody hair, large bro.
tubeHrnnces Tub r, above fHe eyebrows, big
jaws and cheek bones, and o blacf
eye. ), Heis, . picture Of q slave at
bay. Mrs! Stowe might have drawn
"Dred" from him.. He is supposed
either to be dead, hidden away,
wounded or to have abandoned tie
country, os he has not been seen or
heard !7', of for several months. When
last heard from, he was faint from
loss of blood, and had received
wounds in the breast from some
soldiery. He married into the Oxen
dine family, and was present at the
murder OF Sheriff King and elsewhere,
and is therefore included in the list of
outlaws and reward upon his head.
John Dial, who lies in the iail of
Columbus County, at Whitesville, as
Calvin Lowrey does in the jail of New
Hanover County, Mt Wilmington, is
q light mulatto, with n vagrant, fierce
look, aggravated by wart or 1eshy
protuberance of some sort on the
side of his nose, directly beside the
left eye, which wart is as large as q
marble Dial was as bad as any
OF the gang, but not bold, and he
.preiera the repose of the jail to
wading the swamps with Henry
Lowrcy. He says that George Apple
white shot Sheriff King, while the
restlof the band charge TINT Dial
himself drew his pistol md killed
that halo old, Carolinian. h
shoemaker john" who Mt one
time had dealings with Henry Berry
Lowrey's party, but has been sent to
the penlteutiary, is an oyab-faccd ne
gro, good for stealing, but with little
stomach for blood-lctting. Tho Low
rcys repudiatc him altogether.
Henderson Oxendinc, hanged at
Lumberton some time ago, was q
thlck-set, but trim, light mulatto,
with straight hair and a stoical face.
He died without more than n sigh.
[ visited Calvin Oxendine in the
Wilmington jail, whence nearly the
whole band escaped, he refusing or
being afraid to 60.
The Wilmington jail is MI oblonr
brick structure, to tie front of which
is affixed the jailer's residence of q
plaster imitation of sandstone, crown
cd with battlements. The iail is
small in size, as big as q country
meeting-house, and the rear part and
body of it descend below tho street
level into sunken lot, which is en-
closed by brick wall, capped with
nails. and broken glass. From the
upper tier of Jail windows to the
ground is about thirty feet, and the
wall is twelve feet high. A fierce dog
goes at large in the Jail yard. Our
worthless occupied one Of the rear
corner cells in the upper tier of this
jail for six months, and they took out
the bricks at tho side of the edifice.
making small hole, still in outlines
distinctly visible though rc-enclosed,
and let themselves down with their
blankets. The dog made no alarm,
II, as is doubtful, he was ut liberty
that night, and the ncighboring
vacant lots gave easy means of escape
to our bandit desperadoes. The Jail
IS, like most County jails in the South,
n piece of dilnpidation without and
OF bad construction within, and other
holes in the rear attest how other
prisoners made their riddance. One
OF these holes, at tho present writing,
has not been bricked up, although
some time has elapsed since the in
mates cut it.
l visited this jail with tho courte-
Gus City Marshal of Wilmington, W.
T.. Canaday, first entering livery
stable adjacent, through the open
chinks of which tools were probably
handed to tho prisoners within, the
level being nearly the samc md the
walls only twenty feet apart. The
Jail, i'll the interior, was of nm inhu-
man architecture, the cells being en-
closed by a corridor, which debarrcd