Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-03
ANOTHER ONE GONE,
Gsorge Parker, Alias Campbell
Undsr Heavy Sentences,
SElps from the County Jail by Set Of
Curious Chanees.--A Dummy"
Fools the Jailsr.

At 8 quarter before six o'clock yesterday
morning, George Parker, alias George
Campbell, made bis escape from the jail,
aad is still at large.
Parker was one Of a party Of tso or
three who held up George W. Adams. of
Fairmout, at the B. & o. depot one day
last September, during the progress Of the
State Fair, and robbed him Ofsixteen hun
dred dollars in cash. He was arrested,
and duly brought to trial 10 the Circuit
Court, where he was convicted and sem
fenced, on January 18th, to nine years
imprisonment at Moundsville.
THE PRISONER,
through his counsel, then applied for new
trial, which motion was overruled. He
then asked for q stay of forty,Gve days,ard
also thse ne be given twenty days in which
to file his exception. This was granted
out 10 exceptions were filed, and when the
twenty days had elapsed, on February
| 5th, Prosecuting Attorney Jordan notified
the Court that the period in which sxcep
lions could be fled had lspsed. AL thl;
time the prisoner was in jail here, and OF
the 18th inst be would have been removed
to Moundsvills, had he not yesterday tsker
| Erench leave.
Parker was confined in cell No. 9, OF
the south side of the corridor in the SECOND
Stcry Of the jail. In the same tier OF cell!
Is an empty one-No. (which is useC
a sort of store room and wash house
This cell ia at the east end of the corrido
and Immediately adjoining the double iror
doors which lead from the residence por
ton of the building.
Sometime on Monday afternoon Parker
Who had evidently thought long and care
fully over his plan Of escape, proceeded Il
make up
DUMMY
out of On old undershirt and blanket
which be arranged On his cot, piecing GU
the body and limbs of the counterfeit pre-
sentiment Of himself with paper Hour
sack, loaf of bgesd, tin can, an,
such other miscellaneous stui
as he could lay his hands en-. The dun
nv arranged to his liking, Parker drew IN
cot up 10 the door just as the shades 0
night we're falling and before the prison
RS are locked In their cells, so that
could be visible TO one passing along to
corridor, and then closing his cell doc
and hanging his tin coffee cup on the out
side, be creps lnobseryed into the vacsn
ICELAND waited. Presently the prisoners wer
ocked up, and all was quiet. Parker re
NAMED in the cell all night. At quar-
ter TO 6 yesterday morning Jailer NIcholi
aud Assistant Quigg went to the uppe
corridor with tho prisoners breakfasts
and entering the iron doors, they left tn
key in the outer one-;he inner being ope
and passed along from cell 10 cell, I'll
! ing the Tin cups Win coffee ard dealin
OUT the supplies Of bread and molssset
When at the west end of the corridor, 90
therefore fsrthest from the door, they hear
a SHARP CLICK.
Ins,iucsivsly feeling that something va
wrong, Nichols and Quigg ran 10 N
door, and found it locked aud the Ike
gone. 4 sharp rsttling OF the bars broueE
Mrs. Nichols 10 the rescue and the JsliS
srar'ed in hot pursuit Of the tGgi'ive, br
he chase was fruitless, Parker having to
good a start. He had ran on down s,alr
70 the basement, through the lower hall
the front Of toe jail, and there scaled II
wall 10 the sidewalk.
sheriff HsndlAn was at once notified
the escape, and he made every possih
arrangement for the capture OF the crin
iual, Offering in addition q reward OF SlOO
Parker is ) feet s! inches high, spsl
built. weighs about l3j pounds, end
about IS years old, light sandy complexion
slightly gray. long neck and head, and hi
a red spot on the right side OF his neck.