The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-20
MORSE AND GOODWIN
SPENT THE NIGHT HERE IN THE
PENITENTIARY.
TAKEN TO COLUMBUS THIS MORNING
They Escaped From the Penitentary Here Last
August and Went to Counterfeitng Again.
An Old Negro From Sury County
Dies in the Penitentiary.
Dies in the Penitentiary.

Frank Morse and Warren Lee Good
win. two of the seven Federal convicts
who escaped from the penitentiary here
last August and were later arrested in
Georgia on a charge of counterfei'lng
have been brought back here to the Eeni-
Tertiary. But they will remain here
only until $50 o'clock this morning
Then they will be taken to Columbus, O.,
penitentiary.
Goodwin was first arrested in an At
lanta wagon yard in June, 1898, and he
had upon his person a number of coun-
terfeit dollars. He was convicted of
counterfeiting and sentenced to the pen
itentiary here for three years. On
August 21st. 1898, he escaped His
brother, Jim Goodwin, who was arrest
ed at the same time, is now in the pen
itentiary here, serving his term.
Morse was sent to the penitentiary
from Mobile, Ala, for ten years. lie
also was sent up for counterfeiting and
escaped on August Dist, 1898. When
arrested $4,000 silver certificates were
found on his person.
The two men became friends at the
penitentiary and they had been here
hardly a year when they planned to es-
cape and succeeded.
About November 10Th the two men
were found by a secret service detective
in house twenty miles from Dalton.
Ca. engaged in counterfeiting. Their
arrest followed and they were taken to
Atlanta and lodged in JAIL
Last week they were tried in the Uni
ted States court and sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary. The Attor
ney General ut Washington. however,
has directed that they be no longer con
fined here but that they be taken to
Columbus Ohio. there to serve out their
entire sentence, both the unexpired
terms of two and nine years here and
their new sentences of eight years each
added
The conviets were brought here by G..
w. Keith and r. Nj. Gudger, the men
who caught them. They come here TO
get the $500 reward offered by the
State for the capture of the convicts
The papers We're fixed up last night
and Marshal Dockery vii leave here this
morning at $50 o'clock for Columbus,
Ohio. with the prisoners-4tio0dwin TO
serve 10 years and Morse 10 years
Both of them are very desperate afel-
lows. Morse. especially, is regarded as
one of the governments most formida-
BILE law breakers. Neither Morse nor
Goodwin want TO leave here but they
are such desperate fellows, and so hard
TO manage. that the penitentiary authori-
tics are glad to be rid of them.
The Columbus penitentiary. is CON
sidered a much better and safer place
for this class Of criminals than the peni-
Tertiary here.
A United States convict died of heart
disease at the penitentiary here Monday
night.
Peter Allen was his name. He was
an old eolored man sentenced from the
Western district for year on the charge
Of retailing without license. His home
was in Dobson, Surry county.
Up to the time of the trobule for
which he was sentenced the old negro
is said to have borne good character.
And since he has been in the peniten-
tiary the authorities say they have never
known a letter or more obedient con-
Wet.
He had only three more weeks of bis
term to serve.
Manager Arendell yesterday tele-
graphed to Aliens friends at Mt. Airy
and last night he was instructed to send
the body TO Dobson for burial. 1t left
here last night on the westbound train.