The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-15
ESCAPED CONVICT
 CAUSES SENSATION
R. A. ADAMS WAS IN JAIL IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND WAS UNI DER SENTENCE TO BE HANGED. STILL AT LARGE.

Charleston, s. C.. June 14.-A special from walterboro, S. c. to the News and Courier says sensation was caused in town today when 1t was known that R. A. Adams had escaped from jail. Adams was convicted for the murder of Henry Jaques and sentenced last June to be hanged. His sentence was stayed pend- ing an appeal to the supreme court which was dismissed.
 Adams was to have been re-sentenced at the next term of court which meets the first Monday in August. At o'clock this morning a rope made of blankets was discovered handing from the window above the portico on the side of the jail Upon investigation it was found that Adams and a negro. Jasper Stephens, in- carcerated for larceny, had broken one of the iron bars and escaped.
 Deputy Sheriff Henderson immediately started in pursuit. but so far no trace of the escaped prisoners have been found.
 -----~-------->---~->---r vo,,Id have fallen, if he had not been ken from us. It was in historic Nash vile, seven years ago. that his eloquent voice gave utterance to the gratitude Of our hearts to the citizens Of this beau- tifuf city for the hospitality for which they are famous, and which today has laid us under new obligations. It was here that he placed in your hands his commission as your chieftain, and sought to retire into private station. With an outburst of loyal devotion, resistless as the whirlwlnd, you again called him to be your leader, and gave him the com 1f confidence
 "He was true to your service to the last. His noble voice is hushed forever. He has answered the great roll call. He has conquered the last enemy. He has joined his great commander in the white hosts of peace. The armies of the Con- federacy have marched to fame's eternal camping ground and we who meet today are only the belated stragglers of that mighty host who have entered into their immortality.
 The living are brave and noble,
 But the dead were the bravest of all.'
 'As I listened to the eloquent and com- forting addresses of welcome it was i'm possible for me not to remember an oc- casion now nearly forty years past, when some of us yearned to enjoy the hospi- tality of Nashville. Many of her citi- zens would have at that time been glad to see us. but not half as much so as we would have been to see them. Between us and these hospitable homes. there stretched a wall of fire and instead of your cordial greetings we heard the thunder of guns.
 More Than conquerors.
 .'This time, however, we have kept our engagements better, and your good will has made us more than conquerors. We have entered into this city of great men and great memories. We have be- held your educational institutions, send ing light and hope into the remotest cor ners of our beloved land. We have made piIgrimages to the graves of your mighty dead--we have been refreshed by your hospitality.
 'The Confederate soldier does not for get that from the bosom of this old commonwealth came a hundred and fif- teen thousand men to follow the banners of Lee and Johnston and that more than thirty-one thousand were enlisted in the armies of the union-Tennessean believe with their heartsblood. They did not count the cost when the great question of state or nation had to be settled with drawn swords. They spent the last drop of blood. the last mite of treasure, for the defense of Tennessee, their mother and their sovereign.
 We, the witnesses of that great sac rince can never cease to honor Tennes- see, for the blood of her sons, for the tears and prayers of her daughters. for the indomitable spirit which rebuilt the ruined homes, which sowed the blasted helds, which has wrenched prosperity from field and mountain, and has made this wonderful land once more a thing of beauty and pride to every southern heart. You have done well. men and wo- men of Tennessee. With peaceful hands