The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-20

Men We're Traced Dy Bi"..
and Caught up With bus EA
Pursuers by Swimming geek
One Of Them May Have becn
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TWO colored eonvicts, Herbert Moye
and Leroy Jackson. made a ~succesSlui
dash for liberty yesterday afternoon
from the county convict gang, when
was at work i'm front OF the Nationai
/ cemetery on the Market street ROAD.
and they have as yet not been apsie-
hended.
These two, with ten other convscts,
under Guard Frank Sullivan, were en-
gagged In Lining up and surfacing tue
recently constructed car line tracks
which extends from 18th and Princess
streets TO tbs county rock quarry, wnen
suddenly Moye and Jackson, evidently
by pre-arranged agreement, made 4
dash toward the field TO the west or
the cemetery grounds. The guard saw
them at once and fired II he missed
his aim and started in pursuit. Inc
men reached lae tnickly grown corn
field and there escaped capture.
The authorities were notified n
within a comparatively snort time,
Constable Savage who had been sum
monad appeared on the scene with thc
county blood hounds, who weie Al
once put on the trail of the fugltlVeS
Their tracks were traced to lltn ana
Market streets and then toward Belle
Vue cemetery, where the log tuFned
toward the city and lost the trail. IHey
We're taken back again to the starting
point and this time they followed the
men from 18th and Market 70 the vlcln-
ity of Pine Forest cemetery when they
started an a quick run down 10 the
creek, which passes in the rear OF the
cemetery grounds. The officers were
not far hahind the dogs and they reach
ed the creek in time to see the men
swimming across the eastern III a
shot was tired as the cOnVictS mounted
the banks The pursuing officers Ehen,
were forced to go some distance down
the stream to find a crossing place and
in meantime the men had disappear
ed.
The dogs were again put on the
trail on the bank Of the creek and they
had reached the center of the maSshy
water-filled piece of land when 1t was
found necessary, on account Of the
darkness to. call Off the dogs. The am
imals howe ser, had stopped and were
baying loudly, though the prisoners
could not be, seen and the officers are
confident that one of them had .rcceiv-
ed the bullet and was lying In the
swamp, either having been so seriously
injured that he could not run.any fur
Their. or that be had been killed.
The country in the rear of the Gems
eteries is full of dense swamps and,
thickets and. all the men who were
.pul suing the nnnVictS We're soaked thor
Oughly up above their knees. All OF
them are loud in their praises o. the
work of the dogs and they are con-
tident that If they had had a sufficient
force of men with them, the two con-
The escape Of the men was made.
about three O'Clock and the search for
them did not start until ) O'CLOCK, not
being called off until dark.
Moye was sentenced to the roads in
the last superior court for a term of
two years for murder, baving served
less than a months time. Jackson, who
was also up for two years, w~asesentene-
ed at the January term of court, on the
charge of larceny.
A reward of $25 and expenses is Of
fered for the arrest of each Of the two
fugitives.
In the searching party with Consta-
BILE Savage were Superintendent Hardee
of the county home and Dave Boon