Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-03-11

ers who were locked up, cried out
that the door was open. This .di
rected attention from johnson, aud
Horsehead Bill and WIN. Robinson
moved immediately to try and get
out of the Jail. They reached the
sky light Leading to the ventilator,
into which they got by breaking n
glass. They ascended by aid of tn
water pipes and the furnace pipes
The job looks difficult il not impossi
bic without the mid of ladder. but
desperate men can do good many
difficult things. Finally Horschead
Bill and Robinson got on tho roof.
Robinson jumped from the roof to
the wood shed below and thence to
the ground, when he made his way
towards Eighth street. About this
time The colored lanitor of the court
house Ind run into the Mayors office
where S,rgeaut Pendleton sat max
ing up tho mornings docket, and
made that officer understand some
thing was wrong at the Jail, though
he Was so agitated le could hardly
speak Pend.eton seized his pistol
and went 20 the Jail, where seeing
llorsehead Bill on the roof, he order.
ed him down under threats of shoot.
ing. lie came down and crert
through hole i'll the upper wall,
concea!mg himself in the attic over
the jnilor's Office, whence he WAS got
ten afterwards by Sergeant johnson
himself and placed in cell and iron
ed. a citizen told Sergeant pendlc
Ton that Robinson had gone i'll the
direction OF Eighth street and ne fol
lowed, and when some distance of
saw the fugitive come out CT M al
ley. Hc called on him to stop. but
he ran the faster. Pendlelon was
running, too. Tho distance between
the two was about half square when
the officer discharged his first shot,
which made the man run luster. AT
the second fire the man run few
stops, fel! against IL fence and rolled
over on his back. pendleton put up
his pistol. When he got to Robin.
son lie told the officer that he was
dying and asked him not to shoot
again. Only the whites of his eyes
wero visible and he was writhing in
apparent agony. 1t was found he
had been shot in the upper left shoul-
der and there Was 10 danger to life
or limb. The sergeant then carried
him bnclS to Jail
Some persons finally arrived Mt the
jail and opened tho door leading to
the osice. 1t is said that it was by
this way that Lemon Jackson got
out OF the structure. ETe was clad
nearly i'll Georgia uniform when he
skipped. He was minus hat, shoes,
vest, pantaloons and coat He made
good time in getting away from those
most auXious to interview him. 9th.
ers reported him ut different places,
and Officers Webher, Gouldman, Ty.
rec mud Mathews were provided with
horses and commenced chase after
jackson. Amherst county, where he
used to live; was visited, but without
result. 1t was learned by Jnilor
Gouldlnan, who arrived after the
muss was over, that the three prison
ers saved off their irons with an i'm
plement furnished by Uorsehead
Bill. Sergeant Johnson was slightly
cut near the left temple; he was con
sidcrab'y shaken up and bruised, but
otherwise not injured.
1t was rumored here last evening
that Lem jackson was list soen at
tho six mile bridge below this city.
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Inst night it was stated that the
section master of The Norfolk and
Western on seeing jackson at the
six mile bridge attempted to arrest
elm and that Jackson used Johnson's
pistol to the extent of i've shots mt
tile would be arrester, then ran to
the river and jumped in. 1t is fur
Their related that when Jackson got
about half way across the river the
section master ''took crack at him"
when he sank and was seen no more.
Jackson was no doubt in some
toon's cabin last night, either in Am
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