Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-06-01

~'CT tnaI the
SHAH be caught. On Mon
day the sheriff will organize q party
of fifty men, who will be divided
into two squads aud will go on
regular patrol duty continuously
until Pinkney has been captured,
dead or live.
Considerable difficulty has been
experienced in obtaining men to go
on this duty because the fugitive is
known to be such a desperate char
acter and the service will be very
hard. Those who go on the search
however, will be well armed with
Winchester rifles and otherwise
Sheriff Middleton said
to The San correspondent that one
thing was certain, and that was be
intended to have the fugitive, dead
or alive.
The suggestion in regard to trans
ferring condemned prisoners from
county jails to the States prison
made by TIE Sun editorially last
week, were heartily Endorsed by the
leading citizens Of Prince Georges
ENJOYING LIBERTY. MAY 80.
The efforts of the sheriff and
posse to capture the murderer Will
liam Pinkney have up to this time
proved futile. The escaped prison
er is still thought to be within four
or five miles Of Upper Marlboro,
and numerous reports are constant
ly being circulated about his move
ments. 1t is stated as a fact that
Town Bailiff Sweeney has been with
in few yards of Pfnkney. He was
in the public road, near Groom
Station, on the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad, and met a colored
woman whom he asked if she had
seen or heard anything of Pinkney.
She told him that really she had
not. Pinkney told Mr.. Cornelius
DOoiey that he heard the converse
ton between Mr.. Sweeney and the
old colored woman, and that he was
only few yards distant from them,
sitting in the woods eating his din
ner, which the woman had just
given him.
During Pinkney's conversation
with Mr.. Dooley the fugitive said
he could have escaped from prison
three days before he did, but did
not wish to iniure Mr.. Jones, the
guard to the Jail. Mr.. Jones. he
said. had treated him kindly, and
he decided to wait until he saw
chance to escape while Mr.. Jones
was engaged in the Jail. yard. After
he had broken into the granary of
Mr.. Dooley and obtained therefrom
a plow-share and an axe with which
he cut his chains, he jumped into
the air and remarked that he
thought he could now give the
horses good race. He further told
Mr.. Dooley that he had hand in
the murder of Mr.. Bowie, but that
others were also implicated, and he
intended to escape the gallows if he
possibly could. Mr.. Jones, the
keeper of the Jail, told The Sans
representative that he alone was
responsible for the escape of Pink
ney, and that he wished to bear all
the blame for the unfortunate oc-
currence.
The latest report concerning
Pinkney is that he MIXED COW on
the farm of Mr.. B. +. Duvall and
filled a large bottle with milk, which
ne took away with him.
An application will be made by
the local authorities to the county
commissioners for an additional
reward. They say that the reward
of $3.50 offered by the sheriff is not
a sufficient inducement, as it will
have to be divided into many parts
should the posse succeed in captur-
ing Pinkney.
A report reached here by the
afternoon train that Pinkney had
been seen near the Colored Reform
atory at Cheltenham, in this county,
and that posse of citizens were
organizing to go in search of the
fugitive.