Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-03
MANGRUM JAIL.
Wis COndItion-lIe Does not wish to Grim
mate Himself,
Nothing Definite from LouderruiIk.

Nothing Definite from LaudermiIk.
We visited Mangrum in his cell yester-
day evening, and found him somewhat
easier, although he had been suffering in
tensely during the day. and about noon he
became considerably alarmed and thought
he was dying. DR., Rogers was at once
sent for, who administered some sooth-
ing potions, and the result was that he felt
better after having enjoyed sleep.
He seems to talk with great difficulty and
pain, and is very reticent in regard to any
facts concerning his past life, stating that
he would rather not tell anything that
might criminate himself. About all we
could gather from him was, that he was
native of the Northern part of Georgia,
and that he has now no living relatives
that he knows of except one brother and
sister He says that his sister lives in
Chattanooga, but does not know of his ar
rest or present condition, and that he did
not see her since he broke Jail.
From this statement, we Judge that his
name isinot Mangrum, as he gives it, for it
looks impossible that she should be at
Chattanooga and not know of his first ar
rest, subsequent fight and re.arrest, TAX
ing into consideration that he has been the
subject OF many newspaper articles.
He says that he has been in Georgia one
time since his escape from Jail, and would
have been making money in another State,
but for the opportunities of Ganum N.Y.
matt, who persuaded him to stay around In
this country. He says that Ganum My
matt is the meanest man that ever left the
Knoxville jail, and that he has since found
out that he was the worst enemy he had,
and that, while he protested friendship,
Mynatt had offered to betray him into ar
raltf 1-f I'M Nalf rxy sum nf ftu 1ntl Iyn
had suspicioned him of being untrust-
worthy some little time before his arrest,
but had not thought him quite 80 unprin-
cipled until after his arrest, when he
learned these facts. He thinks NIynatt
will yet be captured as he will not
leave the neighborhood of his home. He
says Ganum MyDatt didn't go with him
in their grand round" but stayed about
nome all the time. He seems to desire
that Mynatt should be arrested, and says
he deserves to be re-arrested. The above
are about all the points we could gather
from him, as he seemed oy no means in
clined to be communicative.
The desperate, Mangrum, is now under
sentence to twenty-one years in the peni-
Tertiary for robbing Sterling's store last
winter. His case has been appealed, and
he is just back in time to have the appeal
heard in the Supreme Court now sitting.
If he lives to get over his wounds he will
even if he is not tried for any of the Of
fences committed since he broke Jail last
month. He is a dark skinned, powerfully
built man of 40 pounds, and, as this ac-
count shows, regular ruffian.
LoUDERMILK.
Yesterday morning the rumor became
current that Loudermiik had been captur-
ed below, aud that he would arrive on the
noon train. Large crowds gathered at the
depot to witness the arrival of the despe-
RADIO, but left disappointed as he failed to
make his appearance. No one on the train
had heard anything of him since the ar
rest of NIangrum, and the rumor was I'M
doubtedly false. That he is still in the
vicinity of Muddy Creek, there is but lit
tie doubt, as the people of that entire sec.
ton of country are too wide.awake to allow
him to travel any distance without being
detected. Good men are out on the "war-
path" and we may expect to hear cheer
ing news from the front ere long.
Yesterday morning the Welkers came
and identified their horses and paid Love
his hundred dollars reward. This makes
$500 the expedition has paid him, and
more is yet to come. Better paying bust
ness for him than school teaching.