The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-12
SHOT AS He FLED
ESCAPING CONVICT WOUNDED,
PERHAPS MORTALITY.
DORSEY Delaney THE MAN.
ESCAPED FROM NO. CAMP BY
FEIGNING ILLNESS.


an Excuse From WOrk-In Quar-
ters He Managed to Rid Himself of
His ShackIes and Ossie Will
Iiams, Another Convict, Fled From
His Guards, Delaney Left the
House and Took to the Woods.
covered-COunty Engineer Brown
shot Him and AN Hour Afterwards
He Was Nabbed.
Dorsey Delaney, notorious in the
criminal annals OF Chatham county,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed yesterday by County Engineer w.
F. Brown, while attempting to make
good an escape from No. 2 convict
camp. on Pipemaker Creek. The shoot
ing was done on the Augusta road, two
miles and a half from the city.
Desperately wounded. with two
buckshot that had penetrated his back
lodged in his liver and with four other
wounds in his legs, Delaney managed
TO continue his fight and but for the
opportune arrival of officers from the
city. an hour or more after he was
wounded, would probably have sue
ceeded in making his way to the
house of some one of his friends and
allies in crime and thus, unarrested, to
escape or death. His capture was
finally effected by a posse including,
besides Mr.. Brown, Chief Deputy
Sheriff T. j. Sweeny, G. Reuben But
Ter, clerk of the Board of County Com
missioners, and S. P. Brazell.
At the convict camp yesterday morn
ing Delaney -feiged illness and by
working on the sympathy of the chief
and quartermaster of the camp was
relieved from work in the field and
permitted to stay in quarters await
ing the visit and attentions of the
county physician.
There were a few men around the
camp, engaged under the direction of
a guard in building fence. In some
way Delaney managed to free himself
of his shackles and thus prepared to
avail himself of the earliest opportuni-
ty for escape that offered.
Fled While Guards Searched.
Among the men engaged in building
q fence was OsSie Williams, a convict,
Who like Delaney, has spent a very
short time only on the gang. At about
o'clock in the morning Williams
skipped under the fence, while the eyes
oil the guard were turned in another
direction, and made off through the
woods. The guard soon discovered the
escape and while he was endeavoring
to effect the return of Williams, who
had disappeared from sight, Delaney
slipped out of quarters, around the
corner of the house into the road, and
In a few minutes also disappeared.
The alarm was Immediately given.
The office of the County Commissioners
at the Court House was notified of the
double escape and the woods around
the camp We're beaten to effect the
arrest of the fugitiveS. For five hours,
however, no result was attained and
when Delaney was first sighted it was
not by the pursuing parties, but by
County Engineer Brown, who pre-
viously had known nothing of the es-
cape.
With force of men Mr.. Brown was
engaged in laying some lines along the
Augusta road something more than
three miles from the city and quite
that distance from the camp, when d
former convict, John Reilly, came up
and asked him if Crackers" time was
up. Cracker" is one of the numerous
joices.
MIR. Brown told Reilly that Delaney
had been on the gang less than a week
and was then informed that he had
been seen. making his way down the
Augusta road, only few minutes be-
fore. Instead of the uniform with
Which the county furnishes it's en-
forced servitors, Delaney was wear
ing suit of ordinary civilian attire,
a red and white sweater and a SLOUGH
hat
MIR. Brown on the Trail.
AS soon as he could get to a tele-
phone. Mr.. Brown called up the Court
House and was told that Delaney
had escaped. He borrowed a shotgun
loaded with buckshot from a wayside
store and Immediately followed in the
direction he had been told by Reilly
Delaney had taken.
1t was not long before he caught up
with him.
Haiti" cried the pursuer, but De-
lancey's only response was to move
quickly towards the underground that
lines the side of the road.
Haiti" Mr.. Brown cried again, but
Delaney paid no attention to the sum-
mons, and as he bounded towards the
woods Mr.. Brown fired. He could see
that Delaney was hit, but the wound
negroes flight, and he went on, with
quickened steps, into the wood
Mr.. Brown realized that it would
De impossible for him to surround the
wood and so assure the arrest of De-
lancey, and he telephoned into town
Tor assistance. 1t came in the persons
OF Chief Deputy Sweeny and Messrs.
Butler and BraZell
Delaney was known to be some
Where i'm the triangle formed by the
intersection of the Augusta road and
Bay street extended, and the party
was divided in order to cover both of
these roads. Mr.. Brown rode along
he Augusta road, while the others
Kept on down Bay street extended.
Reilly Again Helps Officers.
It was not long before they struck
lhe trail, this time as before John
me information. Reilly said Delaney
mad been making his way towards the
city in a wagon, but that he had seen
MS pursuers and, jumping out of the
wagon, had made his way towards
Jasper Springs. Reilly claimed that
Delancey had rushed through the
mouse, and predicted that he must be
somewhere in that immediate vicin-
il.
SO events proved. The, entire party
engaged in a race for the house, but
-Iessrs. Brown and Sweeny reached it
Hlst Mr.. Brazell would have been d
ei'se second, had he not been unfor-
euAate enough to overlook a ditch con-
s4led by overhanging grass and in one