Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-07-11
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letter from Dover,

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letter from Dover,
MR.. EDITOR - II is strange, yet true, that it il
S,aiost an utter lmpossibilty that the public can
~ ooIsecuy informed III reference to any transac.
Gi0n' II politics can in any manner be drawn in
What wonderful refractlve powers have political
sp0ctaeles 1t appears that the two lower coun-
Ties OF this State (and Kent especialIy) are looked
upon by certain Radicals as the field of carnage.
MneIe Ihe oIdc6S are offered as sacrifices to Moloch
by the brutal 90hites.
1t matters not how absurd any thing NAV be.
now impossible, II it reflects discredit or dshonor
on aoh"e man, 1t is fully accredited; and if a
coIorcd man Is concerned, on the other side, all
VINO are IN any way connected with the aohite man
become infamous ~ - O"'-
Inc oreak In the Dover Jail has caused much
talk. 1t has been stated in some of the panera.
and It appears to be believed bv manX peraons'
tnAI tne prisoners made their escape through one
VI Inc oacK windows. 1he object in circulating
sucn report must be to cast blame on the Sheriff.
Ior II It had been true, reported OF necessity il
must oe Delleved the prisoners were notlocked nm
III their cells. But the facts are as follows: John
carpenter, the negro under sentence, and John
IIn were IN their separate and respective cells
nan, stanton and Charles Hatfield washed their
o,ankets on Tuesday, and at lock-up-tme, the
blankets notb bsing dry, they did ask to 90 in with
Carpenter and Parker. The Sheriff snspicioned
notnlng, the 1'eao jail apparently so invufnerable,
o"A.Hb lho DihukeG Lr1cK as gospel" granted
then request. The following morning il was
found that the steel % bars had been neatly cut
out OF the windows OF the too cells and the four
atorenamed prisoners gone. The Republicans
may know more of how they got out than what
they admit, for 1t is known there we're parties on
the outside who had long ladder and placed it
up against the jail, and closed the windows of
other cells to prevent the noise from being heard.
In the morning, when the Sheriff went in and
FOUND that certain prisoners were gone, be went
TO Ur. Vests cell and found his door barricaded
with his bedstead, and the Dr. sitting in the mid
de OF his cell bathed in tears. He remarked that
ne thought that his "tIme had come" last night:
that there was ladder put up by his window
and the window closed, and then he heard tho
noise OF the breaking out, and thought It was the
negroes and their allies breaking 50 to take him
out-they made such threats and he has heard of
them de has been suffering ever since with
nervous prostration, and his friends have great
fears for his mental condition. The query, whv
Is 1t West has not broken Jail is answered ''that
a man is justihable in defending HIMSELF and is
not criminally responsible for an accident; hence
he intends to see il out. ~.
Dover can count more insane persons among ii
citizens, or could two weeks since, than any town
OF the same size on the penlnsula-we will not
number or name them. Is it a visitation of Prov
idencep The sufferers are all Republicans
DOVER, DEL, July 10, 1879. OBSERVER.