The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-04-18
BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 49,

separated from Howell and the others
soon after they left the Jail, and in
making his way through the outskirts
Of town and dodging imaginary per
sons, mistaking nearly every lightning
bug for a man with lantern, he lost
his way in the woods, and did not real
ly reach home until about o'clock in
the aftern oon of the next day, an hour
or so before the Sheriff received the
message from his mother. He does
not deny knowing what Howell was
doing in the Jail, and when asked why
he did not tell the Sheriff, said he did
not think giving away fellow-prisoner
was the thing to do, especially when
he was bad and dangerous man who
might retaliate when he had chance.
Though Anglin voluntarily returned
and has since behaved himself in a
creditable manner, there are still those
who believe he took hand in cutting
the iron bars of the Jail, if for no other
reason than to display his expertness
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stance, that the iron bars in his cell
window, set cross wise and perpen-
dicularly and of considerable weight,
could not have been completely cut in
two as these were and then stuck to-
gether and held in place by such a
composition as soap and molasses for
two days or even day: Sheriff Ap-
plewhite having carfully inspected
this window just a day or two before
the escape and discovered nothing
wrong about it.
Anglin will make no statement as
to how the prisoners got out of the
Jail yard, but says enough to negative
that portion of Mrs. Wilkinson's story.
Nothing has yet been heard from
Howell, Dewitt or Rutland. If the lat
ter decided to remain in the Jail when
the others departed he very quickly
and effectually reconsidered that vir-
tuous decision.
Mrs. Wilkinson informed Sheriff Ap-
plewhite that Howell told her before
they left the Jail that he would first
pay visit to the vicinity of Martins
vile, Copiah county, and if she would
go on to his brothers in Lawrence
county, he would join her "a few days
thereafter, and take her in buggy to
where Howell is also said to be well
known.
A Reward of 10000 offered for Howen's
Capture.
The above reward is offered by Sher-
if Applewhite and other citizens to
any person who captures Howell and
delivers him to the Sheriff in this
county or holds him until he can come
for him. At the time he was arrested
for rse-stealing Howell was living
eight miles south of Monticello, in
Lawrence county. He claims to be
native of Alabama, and to have resided
in the States of Arkansas and Louisi-
ana, and to have removed from Louisi-
ana to Mississippi the latter part of
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DESCRIPTION.
He is a white man, with swarthy
complexion, blue eyes, black hair and
thin black moustache, and had, at the
time of his escape about a three weeks
growth of beard. He is about five feet
10 or II inches high and weighs from
40 to 80 pounds. He has a peculiar
habit of pulling his hair back with the
ends of his fingers and catching his
moustache between his teeth when
talking, and sometimes squints one eye,
when seemingly in very good humor
Will probably be found riding or driv-
ing a beautiful dark bay mare, with
long black name and tail, "a fine driver
and perfect saddler, of which he is very
proud. If arrested he will probably
play the insanity dodge. Is an expert
at prison breaking and will require
careful watching.
Deputy Sheriff J. B. F. Campbell
was the first man to open the Jail last
week and discover the prisoners had
escaped, instead of Mr.. S. F. Magee, as
first stated by The LEADER.