The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-08

plan of capture, and it worked we'll
Jenkins had a club fastened to bis
wrist with a cord. lie gave an anus.
ing account OF what transpired be.
tween him and Mr.. Rabb. lie said the
conductor said he wanted him for
stealing horse in Edgelield. lie said
ne argued the point some time and fin
ally when he saw he could not get
away and when he realized that the
description was SO good and he was so
easily Of identification" ne up and
told who he was.
Jenkins says that he had conceived
the plan TO get away some time ago,
ana has been working on his cell door
1or the past month. He says he knew
that the lock on the outside would not
lCck. and denies that he tampered with
that. lie got his file from the wood
plle ana never worked on the nuts cX-
cept when the prisoners were being
locked up at night and turned out in
the mornings, and there was consider
able noise. lie had fixed ns shackle
some time before. When he got out
or his cell he ran the risk of the guard
seeing him. lie said he peeped around
when he got the door open, and seeing
that the guard had just walked by the
opening, he quickly put the door in
place again, and then in his bare feet,
lighted corridor. lie went up the graf
ing to the fifth floor, and the guard
could not have seen him after he got
above the first tOOr The rest OF it
was easy he said, except having to
grasp the pole with his legs and swing
OFT.
lie made the fuss that alarmed the
guard, and waited til everything had
quoted down before he moved again.
lie says, 81 reckon it was only the will
OF the Lord that kept the guard from
seeing me when went through the
corridor expected to he shot at any
minute He threw his file over the
wall.
When Col. Neal asked him why ne
tried to escape he said: "Well, Captain,
l Will be honest with you and | hone
you won't get mad with me for saying |
1t. In the first place | had something |
ma That wanted to get. Then Colo
mel, that ball and cham WAS too much |
LOT man IN my condition.. |, had to |
n1l this heavy wood with it.. ! know
you never hurried me and treated me
all right, but | heard some OF the pris
oners say you were never going to take
that ball and chain off of me and
couldn't stand ii. ! know | had it OF
when you came here. but Thought
some time it would be taken Off"
lie said that man in his condition
was harmless when there was Il guard
around. "The only time I'm danger
Gus, Colonel, is when everybody else is
sleep and | don't have TO run" lie
said he had made three attempts 70 get
away; twice had gotten out, but "Ir
thoug mt | could get away tonight |
would not go. Pm honest when say
IN not going to try to get away any
more. My identification is too com
plete." He said he was not wanted
! anywhere else but in the Georgia peni
tertiary.
In regard to that "SOmething hid":
ne said ii was money that he had bur
led IN Georgia when he !irst got ava,
from the Georgia penitentiary. SOM,
or IL he got by gambling; the rest h,.
secured by watching outside while an. |
other fellow robbed Il house. lie said
III amounted to $lG5, and was in gold
silver and Rreenbacks. In addition to
this he had diamond ring and gold
watch chain buried there too. He was
asked II he did not think the green
backs had Gecayed before now. lie
said: "No Co.., pu; them up i'm such
a way that they are good for ten wears
yet"
Jenkins was whipped yesterday af-
ternoon, new suit of clothes and a
Dali and chain prt on HIM ana he was
then put into the strongest cell in the
prison, and Col. Neal says h. VIII see
chat ne never gets away again while he
IS In charge OF the institution. ST ate.