The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-04
AWAITING DEATH ON GALLONS
 A NEGRO MURDERER ESCAPES

Mir. Fabel entered is stairway lead ing to platform from which the jail- CT can make an inspection of the up- per tier of cells. Over the iron pipe handrail on the outer edge of this stairway the prisoners had hung the blankets taken from the beds in their cell and were crouched on the steps behind this shield. They were armed with a number of bricks with which to kill the turnkey If he passed the left. but when he turned the other way they slipped out through the door which he had left unlocked through the office of, the jail and to liberty. ~
 Although it allowed the prisoners to escape undisturbed itr was fortunate for Mir. Fabel that he did not lock the door to the jailer's corridor on the inside, for if he had done so his ire would have been worth no more than if he had turned to the left instead of the right on entering. The ne- groes were desperate and there IS no doubt that they would have killed any one on the inside if he had possession of the keys. The door had been Ter. unlocked so as to allow the tresues to go to the jail kitchen.
 When MT. Fabel got around on the west eide of the Jail where the scell occupied by the four negroes was 10. cated he saw the excavation and tna. there were only two negroes behind tha bars. He immediately notified Acting Jailer Nat Waller Deputy sheriffs and the police were imme- diately advised of the escape or the nrisoners, but up until early this morn ing nothing had been hearo oi e men who escaped
 Faodies Too Large to Escape.
 The other negroes in the cell are larger men and could not get out or the hole through which the others soueezed themselves. When Mir. Fabel first saw them they were standing against the bars, but when he and MT. Waller returned to the corridor 10 ex- anime the place where the escape was made the negroes were in their "bunks." When they were examined their clothes were muddy, showing that they had been down in the hole under the steel wall of the cell. They claim that they had no part in the plot to escape, but the negroes in the adjoining cells con- tradicted them and said they were do- ing their best to follow the other two but were not able to enlarge the hole in time.
 All of the prisoners were stripped and their clothes and bedding exam ined, but the only weapon of any Kind discovered was a little home made knife of Tom Simmons, who is in jail on the charge of attempting to murder Will Reynolds, a railroad engineer. He had the knife rolled up in the bottom of his trousers and as he started to take them off hc threw the knife back into his cell Before he recovered 1t the knife had been taken in charge by the officers During this searching process the negroes were in a very sullen and mutinous mood, hut gave the men con- ducting the investigation no serious trouble.
 John Hayman. alias Andrew Borders, the negro murderer, was condemned to death in the Montgomery City Court for the murder just before Christmas of a negro woman named Lula Lumpkin in the negro suburb known as Stew artsville, near the city pastures in the northern end of Montgomery. He was from wetumpka and was captured the morning after the murder by Sheriff Robbins of Fillmore County.
 The murder was particularly brutal. the woman having the whole top of her head blown off.
 No Hope if Captured.
 Hayman had taken an appeal from the decision of the City Court and this appeal is now pending before the Su- preme Court. His escape nullifies his appeal and If he is caught the trial judge will set another day for his death.
 Hayman is yellow negro about thirty-five years old. He weighs about 160 pounds and is about i've feet and