The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-26
ESCAPED WITH FIFTEEN.
James R. Robson Charged With Let
ting Other JailbiTdS Out.

llHg Ullltl JdllDlluS Jul,
I Detective Morgan Locates Him Here
and viii Send Him to Lumberton,
/ n. O., Where He Is Badly Wanted.
/ Robson Admits He Is the Man
/ Wanted, but Denies the Charge Of
/ JaiIbreaking-sever ofenses With
Which He Is Charged.
/ The arrest OF James r. Robson by De-
/ tective Morgan yesterday, near the cor
/ ner Of Eleventh and Burroughs streets,
/ brings up the story of the escape on July
20 Of fifteen prisoners from the county
Jail of Robson county, at Lumberton, n.
/ c., it being charged that the man cap
tured by Detective Morgan did the work
of breaking jail and allowed the other
/ prisoners to escape.
Sheriff II. McEachern wrote to the
county authorities here sometime ago
stating that Robson had escaped, and
asking them to keep a lookout for him.
! Several letters followed the first one, Civ
ing his description and some clew which
might lead TO his capture, and when De-
tective Morgan located him here, he at
once sent on for the warrant against
Robson, and went out yesterday to find
him and make the arrest.
DID HE LET THEM EsCAPE9
The letters described Robson as young
man, about 20 years old, slender slender,
weight about 1870 pounds, no beard, dark
eyes and hair, about > feet s inches in
hight, and a smart, quick talker, and
such proves to be the man which Detec-
tive Morgan has in jail.
Robson is charged with a number of
crimes, perhaps the most serious of which
is breaking Jail and allowing fifteen other
prisoners to escape. The warrant against
him, however, is for larceny. Other
charges against him are burglary, in the
state courts, and Selling whisky which
was in charge of the United States mar
shals, in the federal court.
ADMITS HE IS THE MAN WANTED.
Robson talked freely about the charge
of taking the whisky, but that perhaps is
the least OF the charges against him. He
said nothing about the charge of bur
glary. He admits he is the man wanted,
and states he was serving a term on the
chain-gang in that county, and as soon as
his time was out he was placed in Jail on
another charge for which he was await
ing trial This was the charge of larceny.
He denies the charge that he broke jail
and allowed the other prisoners to escape,
| but says his brother-in-law is now in Jail
at Lum berton on a charge of furnishing
him the tools with which to do the
work. He claims, however, there is no
ground for this charge but that the
Jail breaking was accomplished by
other prisoners, and the way of escape
was made while he was asleep. He was
| awakened by them, he says, and seeing
his chance TO get away, he of course took
advantage of it. The escape with the
other prisoners was made July 20, and
for most of the time since then Robson
has been in Savannah.
TOO QUICK FOR HIM.
He told the detective if he had been a
minute later he would never have caught
him. as he was just preparing to make his
! escape, and that he had made all arrange
ments to leave Savannah Monday and 90
to Port Royal. The Jig was up, however,
and he had TO make the best of it.
Detective Morgan asked Robson if he
would go back to Carolina without a re-
! QUESTION. Robson replied he would not,
and said he intended to give them all the
| trouble he could. Detective Morgan
| finally convinced him that he would have
| to return anyhow and that he might
as well submit to it peaceably and
without giving any trouble He was
| finally convinced that this would be the
case in the end, and he agreed that he
would return without a requisition. This
was wired yesterday to Sheriff
| McEachern, who will come after Robe
| son in the early part Of the week.