Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-09
THE RESCUED musDEKER.
wythe County officer Hunting for
ufst IA Caroline.


Mr.. stephen Putney returned TO the city
Yesterday afternoon from a business Trip
tbrongh Southwest Virginia. during which
be stopped, among other places, at Wythe-
vile. from the taii OF which place Warman
sutton. the condemned murderer OF Peter
Uarvell, was rescued by mob OF friends
about 9 O'Clock on the morning OF Thursday,
November Goth, The day preceding the one
on which the prisoner was to nave Deen
hanged.
on the train With Mr.. Putnev came Depu-
ty.Sherilf John h. Hurt, OF Wythe, who NJ
rested Sutton IN Illinois the last OF Septem-
her. 1887. The Deputy left Richmond on
the G.20 train last evening Tor Rowing
Green. Carolipe county, TO see II he c0uld
identify the msn arrested near that place az
asuspiclous character. and whose conduct
since bis arrest several days ago has been
rather puzzng. as sutton.
Several kilograms have passed between
Wvtheville and Bowling Green with refer
euce 10 The man, aud the description OF him
corresponds To some extent With the appear
anca ~ the escaped murderer
Deputv Hurt teegraphed TO the officers Mt
Pnwlirg Green that n their man had two
m,l,, on the left side Of the neck Just above
the collar AVID q crooked finger on the right
band 10 hold him a. sutton. The response
g. this was that the prisoner agreed with me
de.crinti0n Upon receipt OF this Mr.. Hurt
made preparations and started Immediately
for Bowling Green
NOT WELL GUARDED.
Gentlemen coming from Wytheville speak
% though the prisoner Sutton could never
bsye beeu released hsd the Jail been properly
guarded one ~ them IN conversation win
A Dispatch reporter yesterday evening said:
Ever BODY uD there tell ne thst the peo-
ple al knew the evening before that the llll-
delivery was 10 be madr, and thsy were eX-
pectng IT, The lights in the hotel were ex-
tlnguished, so that those persons Who were
awake could see the men AZ they marched u
the prison. The sheriff, instead Of being at
the iaii. was st bis house. about square dis
tant. Half dozen guards in the building
with sbotguus could easily have repealed the
rescuers, 80 the prison Is not easy Of sccess.
The general impression there is that there
were near two hundred in the company"
THE CAROLINE Prisoner.
A special to this paper received from Bow
ling Green last night gives the following ac-
count OF the Deputy Sherh's trip to that
place:
BowrrvG GREEN. Va, December s.
Deputy sheriff John b. Hurt arrived to-
MINT and PROCEEDED et once TO lht lall'
where a large crowd bad assembled to know
n Wavman Soiion was the suspicious cha
racier caught in this county last Tuesday.
Charles Hassius Is the prisoners name ss
given here.
The door being opened Deputy Hurt said
How are youy lie Is not the man want
The prisoner replied: ." knew that.
| Now, tell them proclaim il to the world
I | am very vIad 10 see YOU. / knew you
/ would release me"
The prisoner Is very much like Sutton.
/ The upper part OF bis face is scarcely di,tin-
| gnl.haole from Sutton's. Hei- yet held to
/ hear from other points, A. he i evidently a
/ crank and says that be has had some family
: trouble. but refuses 10 disclose any further
| facts. II is generally believed that be is a
/ fugitive from Justice and that lIaskins -
/ only an assumed name. lie Is Mason, and
some Of that order are anxious for his re-
I lpasp.