Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-11-25
Jail Delivery.

jail DcflfcTss
Ratween 8 and 9 o'clock on Friday
evening, while court was IN session.
and the Sheriff absent, four of the
chaps in Jail went out through hole
eut in the side Of the building.
underneath the stairway. Their
names were BENT KENNEDY, WILLIAM
BLANKENsHIP, CHARLES GILLILAND
and JOHN SMITH. They had not
been gone more than five or ten min
utes when their escape was noticed,
but the night being pitch dark and a
light rain falling, pursuit was con-
sidered useless that night. In the
morning PHILo RIPLEY started down
the river and AMOS RIPLEY, jr., up the
river. Mr.. JAMES p. GRAY, coming
in from Vinton, met man on foot
near Mr.. OWENS, just this side oil
Porter, whose description exactly
corresponded with SMITH. Capt. BLA
zER Immediately started after him.
PHILo RIPLEY sent word back at noon,
on Saturday, that KENNEDY and
RrANKENsHtP crossed RaccOon Creek
at Cotrel's Mill, just below Yellow
Town, early in the morning. GILL;
LAND seems to have lost himself, in
the nights darkness. He took break
fast at Mr.. VALENTINE SwlTzER's, and
was afterward heard of at his faith
er's. There were two others in Jail,
WIN. WATSON and S. L. GILMAN, col
ored, but they made no attempt to
get out. The probabilities are that
the pursuers will get the fleeing
birds.
LArER.-Capt. BLAZER returned on
Saturday evening, having overtaken
the man he was in pursuit OF, two
miles beyond Wilkesville. He proved
to be a man named MILLER, and had
been working up Kanawha. PHfLo
RIPLEY returned on Monday morning,
and reported that BLANKENsHIP and
KENNEDY crossed the river at Cham
bersburg, on Saturday, and that
SMITH had continued on down the
river on this side. Mr.. LORENZO
SIBLEY heard of SMITH, and going
down to Straight's Rifle caught him
on a raft floating down the river. with
some lumbermen. Taking him pris-
oner, he started to Gallipolis with
him on the Billy Parsons. When at
Meals Landing, opposite Raccoon
Creek, and just as the boat was pull
ing out from shore, SMITH, unobserv-
ed, jumped to the bank, and ran like
a quarter horse for the hills. Those
on board opened fusilade upon him,
but he kept running. Messrs. SIB-
LEY. BLAKE and CLENDINEN started
after him. After long search they
were about to give him up, when the
family of Mr.. WILLIAM NEAL dis
covered SMITH in the garden. They
scooped in the boy. PHILo RIPLEY
and JNo. B. CLENDINEN went down
and brought him up, and lodged him
back in his old quarters.
SMITH says that he, BLANKENsHIP
and KENNEDY were together until ten
o'clock on Saturday, when they cross
ed the river. He says they were fur
nished with horses. He promises to
tell Just where they are. He says
that B. and X. took his overcoat
from him, and though they had
money, they would not give him a
cent. He says they told him they
were fifty miles from Gallipolis when
they were at Chambersburg, and he
believed them for he supposed he
had walked twice that distance
SMITH says he crossed the Yellow
Town bridge at daylight. He also
saws that he is son of Capt. j. B.
SMITH, Co. A, S1st o. V. l., and was
in that company. The roster of this
regiment does not show any Capt. j
B. SMITH. 1t has only one commits
stoned SMITH, who was SAMUEL B
SMITH, and First Lieutenant
SMITH also says that he is a sole
leather cutter, and learned his trade
in Cincinnati. The effect of th'
shots fired at SMITH as he was leav
ing the boat were slight wound il
the back of the head, and a iesf
wound in the arm.
WE have received Atlanta ant
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