The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17
LOCAL MATTERS.

TIE RECENT ESCAPE OF THE FEMALE
CoSvIcTs-Two Mes SENT TO JAIL FOR AID.
ING THEM.-Hippolite Baschen and Robert
Howell-the latter colered man-were be-
fore the Police Court yesterday morning to
answer the charge Of aiding Jennie Beatty
and Madame Roussel to secrete themselves
from the officers OF justice. The proof was
that these two women, having escaped from
the penitentiary, went to the eating-house
OF Howell, on Cary street between Seventh
and Eighth. They arrived there about 2
or 3 O'clock Sunday morning, were accom-
panied by two colored men, and, according
to the statement Of Howell, represented
themselves as excursionlsts. Madame ROus-
sci wrote note to Baschen and sent it to
his house, on the west side OF First street
ed in person between and o'clock.
The two women stayed at Howelps house
from or O'Clock A. NJ. till about P. M.
Baschen was in to see them two or three
times.
About / O'Clock Sunday Officer James
saw Howell near the corner OF Eighth
street. He told Howell about the escape OF
the three colored and two white women. He
particularly described the two white wo-
men, and told Howell to look out for them,
for there was a reward offered for their APP
prehension. At that very moment Madame
Ronsse and Jennie Beatty were sitting in
HowelPs backyard. Howell, however.
states that he had no suspicion that they
were the parties; that II he had he would
have been only too glad to arrest them to
make the reward.
At nigbtfal Baschen came after the wo-
men. They walked up Eighth street little
distance and got into carriage. Howell
by this time (if not long before) certainly
had his suspicious aroused, for he followed
the carriage TO the corner OF Third and
Leigh streets, where he lost sight OF it.
The carriage was dismissed near Mrs.
BecE's garden, and Baschen walked with
the women the remainder OF the distance to
Mr.. Elkin's (near the German Cemetery,
where he had been Sunday morning about s
or 9 O'Clock and made arrangements TO
board the women, representing them as
friends OF his from Chesterfield, having the
relation of mother-ln-laW and daughter-in-
law, who wished to escape for few days
from the younger Woman's drunken NUS
band.
Baschen visited the women at Mr.. Elkin's
Monday morning. Tuesday his wife be-
came alarmed lest her husband get into
trouble, and insisted upon his going to the
penitentiary and informing the officers
where the women were hiding. He did so.
Baschen told our reporter that Captain
Strother, after bearing what he had to say,
pattcd him upon the shoulder, saying that
it was "alI right" and that his name
shouldn't 20 into the paper, &c., from which
Baschen inferred that his wrong-doing had
been forgiven, and that ne was not to be
prosecuted.
Justice Crutchfcld sent both accused on
for aiding the women to escape, which is
felony. Their counsel hold that If guilty Mt
all they are only accessories after the escape
had been consummated, which is misdc-
nleanor. They were committed in default
of bail. John S. Wise appeared for the
Commonwealth in the absence in California
of the Commonwealth's attorney; e. G.
Cabel for Baschen, and r. P. Brooks fo1
Howell.