Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-21
JAIL DELIVERY.
Six Prisoners, All Desperate and All Ne
grOes, Escape from Jail,
One Of Them Goes to the House of His Wife and
Forces Her to GO'With Them-POsses
lin Pursuit.
Special to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette:
PALESTINE, TEX. Aug. 20.--Six prls-
oners, all negroes, broke jail at this
| place and made their escape last night.
The parties were saan Holly, charged
with rape, Warren LoGkett, rape; Bob
Kyle and Ben Henry. assault to murder;
Gus Sims and PIummer Freeman, theft
of money. Bob Kyle is a ginger colored
negro, and the balance all black, and
all large men, ranging from twenty-five
to forty-five years of age. OF the two
rapists, Holly is n young man and his
crime was the attempt to rape a seven
year-old negro girl. LOckett's at
tempt was upon a negro girl fourteen
years of age. Lockett is about thirty
five years of age. Black is a hard look
ing citizen.
The discovery of the delivery was made
about 'clock this morning by Mr..
Johnson, who passing the street at the
rear of the jail south discovered the brick
torn away beneath a barred window on
the first floor and about twelve feet
from the ground. blanket was sus-
pended from one of the iron bars by
which the prisoners had reached the
ground. Mr.. Johnson gave the alarm
and q search discovered the fact that the
lower bar of the corridor door had been
neatly sawed. The iron door pushed
open at the bottom, leaving a space
large enough for the parties to get
through into the hall way, giving them
access to the ground floor window There
q large lot of brick and debris was found
and an iron bar with a string around one
end, showing that a confederate from the
outside had assisted in the work. There
are some indications that the work on
the walls was from both sides. The job
done by saving was extremely neat. The
saw was evidently used by one who was
m expert at the business. Two prisoners
on the upper floor did not escape, and
one of them claims that the work of saw
ing the bolt was gong on all dayyesterday
This of itself shows that the delivery
was planned and executed by q shrewd
head and 4 cunning hand, as the officers
were i'll and about the Jail ali day yester-
day, and had any unusual noise been
made would certainly have detected it q.
A deputy was in the Jail last night, but
slept remote from the prisoners or any
sound they might have made III efTecting
their escape.
A1ltCA III LAY W as iSN ~ S1GCICu III W.
vember last and has made a most excel
lent sheriff. He has sent out kilograms
and started posses out after the fugitives
and it is hoped they viii all be recaptured.
The prisoners were left in the corridor
last night by accident. 1t has been
learned during the day that the man with
Kyle and three others of the gang went
TO Freeman s III the suburbs at clock
this morning. Freeman became eXas-
perated because his wife would not fly
with him and assailed and choked her,
finally forcing her to go with him.
When they got half mile below the
stock pens Oh the San Antonio branch of
the railroad the other fugitives worried
Freeman to release the woman, and she
returned and told her story to Marshal
Hanna, at W hosesk0use she is gsakfng.
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