The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-18

to him copy of the telegram he had
received.
The following dispatch from Deko-
ven, KY, gives some additional par.
ticulars concerning Turlington's cap
ture:
Dekoven, XIV. Nov. 12.-Tbe cap
ture Of one of the most desperate
characters. whose acts has I'll ed the
columns of the public press for some
time. was effected at Caseyville to-day
by Constable VIM. Dryer, assisted by
Mr.. Henry Spencer of Dekoven. The
prisoner is no less parsonage than
the notorious train robber and MUIR
derer, John Oscar burlington.
He viii be remembered rs the pris
oner who escaped fiom the BoonvilIe.
Mo-, jail leaving a dummy ON his
couch, On the evening of the 1st inst.
He has travelled day and night, and,
having left part of his clothing on
the dummy. has been scantily clothed.
He looks very much tatigued. He
states that at one time the
bloodhounds were within 100 yards
of him. but he having crossed the trail
of drove of sheep and a herd of
cattle, they lost the scent and return
ed. He was then secreted in a barn.
At another time a man jumped out
from ambush within fifty yards of him
and shouted "Here he is He
beard crowd of horsemen coming.
aud he then went across the field in
the darkness, and the followers sho;s
failed to find him. He Travelled only
by night. He says he used horse
but once, and that was from near
Boonville TO Franklin. He foated
in skiff some distance down the river
until he struck sand-bar, when he
turned the skif loose, thinking to
walk ashore, but he had to wade in
water up to his neck to get to
shore. He arrived at Caseyville this
morning about five o'clock, and going
TO a boarding house, he knocked for
admission, but was refused. He then,
on Bonded knees, asked for something
to eat. On being refused, he walked
TO the upper floor and locked himself
10 a room. The family, hearing of
his desperate acts since his stay in
Caseyville last winter, became alarmed
and fled from the house. The town
officers were notified of his presence,
and he was then put under arrest. To
show how carefully he has travelled,
be did not attempt anywhere to secure
anything to defend himself, and Was
found with no weapons on his person.
He states that he did not get out Of q
window in the Jail at Boonville, as the
papers state, but he says he noticed
carefully each evening that night
guards would 90 through the corri-
doris, and notice the doors to all the
cells containing prisoners; then they
would 60 out in town about z o'clock
and return again at 8. when they
would pass through the corridors
again examining all the doors, and
locking the corridor doors.
He came to the conclusion there
was charnce for escape, so he fixed
up the dummy the night before to see
if the guard would notice it, he secret
ing himself in the cell 30 he could not
be seen from the outside. The |
scheme worked all right, so the next
evening after his supper, and while
be was having his recess in the corri- |
dor, he fixed his dummy In bed with
stuffed sock little ways from un-
der The cover, and his lantern near
by to show it plainly, and his pants
and his shoes near the door, where
he could get them out of a small |
opening in the bottom of the door.
He slipped out his own cell into one
unoccupied, and closed the door, not
quite locking it. He then secreted
himself until after the guards went
through and tried his cell. Waiting long
enough for their departure, he opened
the door to the cell, and noticing the |
dummy sleeping quietly under the
rays Of his lantern, he babe it adieu,
and finding the corridor doors unlock
ed, opened them carefully. Passing
through six of them he arrived at the
outside door and found the keys in
the door, when he passed out of the
Boonville Jail to become the prey Of
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