Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-09

porous Duslness-the manufacture and
sale OF new patent duplex bed.
spring and mattress. The propri-
etors have been operating at
Columbia la, recently. but we understand that
it is their intention to locate permanently
with their business in Knoxville, and that
they will employ about 100 hands, most of
whom come along with them, perhaps.
They expect to begin business shortly.
This will be a live and important enter
prise, and will meet with hearty welcome.
Romantic Capture and Second Escape.
Last week VIM. F. (BilD Martin was ar
rested at Piney Flats, Sullivan County,
where he had been for some weeks, passing
under the alias of Frank Radcliffe, having
with him young girl purporting to be his
wife. The arrest was made by Sheriff r.
P. Goodall, of Lebanon, Laclede County,
Mo, on the charge of numbering his uncle,
Geo. Miser, in 1879 Martin, while in Jail
under sentence of death, formed
the acquaintance of Maggie Wilson, neice
of the jailer who lived with him, and it
soon ripened into love affair, which ripen-
ed into an escape from Jail.
To reporter, the woman, after they
were taken back to ST. Louis told the fol-
lowing story:
'No, there is no use of me denying that
let Bill out, and then ran away with him, -
she said. II had learned to love him
months before, and determined if possible to
keep him from hanging, SO 1 selected as the
last opportunity the time when my uncle
was about to give up the Jail, after his term
expired. 1 knew he would move out of the
building, which is connected with the Jail,
in few days. So on Tuesday morning,
the 10th of November 1 slipped the KEYS
out of the drawer where my uncle kept
them and gave them to Bill At a signal
from me he unlocked the door, and taking a
gun had placed in the yard-hall, he walked
out l soon followed. We went through
the snow to his fathers house,
about ten miles from Lebanon,
and there concealed ourselves for
ten days. Then we saw that was not a
safe place to remain, so Bill procured for
me a suit of boys clothes, and with pair
of dull scissors he cut off my long hair, and
enc night we mounted pair of his fathers
mules and were soon on our way out of the
State. We went to Howell County and
! there traded off the mules for pair of
horses and rode these until we came to Mis-
sissippi River, somewhere down in Arkan-
sas. About that time one of the horses died
and Bill sold the other. We then took .
boat and went to Memphis, and from there
through Tennessee. Alabama and several
other States do not remember, and went
to Martin Station, in Virginia.
"When were you married 2" interrupted
the reporter.
For a moment it seemed to puzzle
Mrs. Martin, but she studied awhile and
replied:
''At Martin Station, Bill and I went to a
justice of the peace and had him perform
the ceremony. Bill gave his name as Frank
Radcliffe, and told them my right name
Maggie Wilson. Bill got work in a black
smith shop and was doing well. But one
day two North Carolina detectives went
to the shop to arrest Bill, think
ing he was man who committed
some crime in that State; and he, think
ing they wanted him for the Missouri
crimes, struck one of them with hammer
and the other with piece of iron he was
Welding They then shot him, once in the
arm and once under the arm. Then he ran
away, and afterwards they found he was not
the man they wanted. We packed up our
goods and went to Piney Flats, in Tennes-
see, and was there when Mr.. Goodall ar
rested Bill. The first 1 knew of the arrest
was when DIR. Martin came after me in a
buggy. Our household goods were sold
and we left there the next morning early.
mot fo,r tba
Sheriff Goodall, after reaching Piney
Flats, effected the capture in the following
manner, as told by a Globe-Democrat Re-
reporter;
Piney Flats is small town in Sullivan
County, Tennessee, on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad. It is a
town just large enough for every one to
know every ones business. Mr. Goodall
inquired of the combined merchant, post
master and banker if he knew one Frank
Ratclitf, residinge in that neighborhood.
''Of course I do said the combination of
officers. He's nice young man, and can
just play the fiddle better'n any man in this
section" Then Mr.. Gooda1 told why he
wanted to see Frank Radcliffe, alias William
+. Martin. The merchant objected
to the store being made the
place of capture but was persuaded that no
place was more suitable, provided the Mis-
souri, sheriff would leave his revolver in the
store safe. To that Mr.. Goodall consented,
and then he took his position in the loft of
the mercantile establishment and waited for
Developments. All day Friday, Saturday,
Sunday and Monday did the determined
officer wait. Tuesday morning he heard
the dulcet strains from violin in the store
room, and correctly Judging that only a
Laclede County violinist could SO currently
play "The Girl l Left Behind Me- he crept
down the ladder leading to the loft, and be-
fore Martin knew what was the matter he
was in handouts, and was listening to the
warrant from the State of Missouri in
dorsed by the governor of Tennessee.
After stopping in st. Louis for time,
the Sheriff sroceeded with his prisoner, but,
according to kilograms received in Chat
tanooga last Tuesday. Martin, with his
handouts on, jumped through a car win
dow while the train was in motion and
again made his escape. The girl was taken
on to Lebanon. her former home
1t is simply marvellous how quickly con-
stipation, biliousness, sick headache, fever