The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-09
LINDSEY WOMAN
TRIED To ESCAPE
LooSENED SCREWS IN CELL.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS HER Sue
CEssFUL WORK on HINGES.

In Another Night She Would Have
Been Able to Get Into the Corridor
and Possibly Make Her Escape
With Trusty Prisoners Who Are
Let Out TO Work in MOrninE-Was
Confined in same Cell from Which
Jim small Escaped.
jamie Lindsey sprung a new sensation
on the police yesterday when she was
transferred to the county Jail from the
city prison. and it was found she had
loosened all but four screws in the
hinges to her cell door.
According to her own declaration
she was not held long enough, as she
required another nights work to get
out Of her cell. join the work hands as
they filed from the prison in the
morning and make her escape much
the same as jim Small, the burglar, did
about two years ago.
The police were mystified TO know
just how the woman succeeded in loos-
ening the screws. All of them. were
rusty, and also a part OF the hinges
which they held in place. and it would
have been a difficult matter to loosen
them even with screw driver.
Was in the "Big Room
The woman was confined in a large
room on the second floor of the police
prison. The door is a heavy one Of
wood, with a transom over it. 1t was
through this transom that Jim Small,
notorious negro record story maker,
made his escape into the corridors,
and passed from the prison door with
a number Of work hands early in the
morning. He succeeded in burning the
nails which held the tTansom.
The work Of the woman held for rob-
bing the Chestnut home was even more
ingenious than was that Of Small.
She was not allowed 10 have knives,
or anything with which she could have
done the work. She was thoroughly
searched when carried to the Jail. and
her cell at the police prison was search
ed after she left. but nothing was found
which could have been used to loosen
the screws.
The door which the woman was at
tempting to open is held by three
hinges. In the top and bottom hinges
there are five screws on each side
These are unusually large. There were
sAS AAALANCL abAAH A4AdA d EELEA AElNEL Hau
been used on these.
COnhded to a Trusty.
The woman's attempts to free her
self We're first made known to the
prison warden by a negro woman
trUsty. After the Lindsey woman had
been given hearing before the Re
corder and was bound over to await
the action Of the grand jury, she was
transferred to the county Jail.
As she was leaving the city prison
she told one Of the women prisoners
that they were taking her out one
day too soon. and that she had fixed
il so that anybody could get out of
the room where she was confined. An
investigation was Immediately made,
and TIE hinges We're found as describ-
ed.
When seen at the county Jail the
woman evaded making any statement
as to how she loosened the screws.
Neither would she make any state
nsent which would indicate that she
had even been the guilty one.
In the preliminary hearing before
the Recorder, Grant Lindsey, who was
charged with being an accessory in the
Chestnut robbery. was discharged. as
there was no evidence to show he was
a guilty party 10 the theft The wom-
an pleaded guilty and will be held
subject to the action of the grand
jury.