The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-04-23
SHOT AND KILLED
BY PRISON GUARD
One of Three Who Broke
the Stockade.
OTHERS RECAPTURED


Three young white men, l.. =.
Ccrugga. Jack williams and Dodd VIII
son. made a bold II desperate at
tcmbt to escape from the pehlleh'iaiy
Yesterday morning about IL clock
the attenpt resulting only in the DEAN
If Scrupgs. the younger of the three
c0nyicte, he being only 10 years OF
age RE was shot with q SO caiiprt
Winchester rifle, the ball entering near
the shoulder blade on the back ana
passing entirely through the Dody'
co.t.ifa out near the breast bone,
Wilson ran into a house near by,
6crs,Dicd by the family of a Mr.. tEdI'-
pclI. the nome being not more tidi
wards from where the guard was
standing on his perch above the STOCK
AIDE. Guard Eatrnan flrcd tnree Snot9
AT him. none of them taking erect.
The convict ran into the mousse ana
hid under the bed, the OF
the house. several Of whom were Ia
die. aashing terrified from n prem
iSee. Within ten minutes from the
time he passed through the
he had been recaptured and carried
back within the prison walls.
Williams, however, came nearer
making good his Escape. lie an
iTTOSG the ISOyldll WooiS, Iiit -
boro road and the Cameron field, to
the forest beyond, then back across
the field and road toward Pullen
Park and finally hid in the big dltch
dividing the lands OF the A. and Nj.
College and Mr.. T M. Arlington,
chief clerk of the prison.
In = few seconds after the shooting
the guards and officials were advised
Of the affair and a squad set out IN
pursuit of the two conVicts. Part OF
them followed in hot pursuit across
the Cameron field and somewhere
in that vicinity found that Williams
had gone back toward Pullen Park.
They 'phoned this information to the
Office and another squad was quickly
dispatched in that direction. They
sOon found him near a small house be-
longing to Mr.. Arlington. He had
taken off his striped jacket some
where on the way and Wore only q
White flannel shirt on his body. He
nor Wilson made any attempt to resist
the officers when they were found.
thief Clerk t. NJ. Arlington of
the State Prison was seen in his Of
flee and gave this account of the af-
fair:
How they Escaped.
'The three men We're working on
the brick yard. handling wood and
brick and doing whatever they We're
needed for there. There is d large
pile of wood near the StOckade. as you
can see. AS q eSaboard freight was
passing, making a great deal of noise,
Of course. they went behind the pile
Of wood, knocked off one plank from
the ~StOckade, went through and caught
the train. The train was %rUnning
slow and when he saw them he stop
ped. When the train began to stop
they jumped off the coal car which
they had caught, landing on the off
r,l1 f,A.= 80 -,,n~l nol WON nuya rT
the Boylan woods and the HillsborC
road. The guard stationed at the
gate shot at Wilson first and he fell
the guard thinking he had struck him
He then shot Scruggs and he fell
Then he shot at Williams but he KEPT
running. Scruggs died in a very few
minutes. I reached him just before he
breathed his last. He fell on his face
and tried to get up. but fell back turn
ed oVer and died"
Body Taken Up.
Or. j. r. Rogers had just been il
the prison on a professional visit, h.
being the penitentiary physician, anC
was driving along the road toward'
Raleigh and near the gate when tn,
Scruggs had been shot down and go
out of his buggy and went to TIL
dying mar in time to see him breatl
his last. He said the man was practi
ttiilS tltdt witch ne GtsICIltu MIN.
Mr.. Brown, the undertaken, wa
'phoned TO and sent Immediately 70
the body and had it prepared 70
burial.
Mollie SCruggs, of Washington, d
c., was notified by Wire of the dealt
and the body is held at Browns await
ing Instructions. The above is tn
name given by Scruggs when he cam
to the prison, as the person to be no
tltIGU IN ease of an accident
None of them North CarOlinianS.
at the March term of Guilford Su
Derlor Court, for crimes cOmmitte,
in that county, but singular as it ma
seem, none of them were natives o
citizens of Guilford or of North caro-
lima.
The deceased claimed to be fror
WASHINGTON. D.. c.. Williams claim
Indian Territory and Wilson halls fror
Colorado.
Their Crimes.
Scruggs was sentenced to the peni
Tertiary for two years for forgery
Williams n Wilson were each give
a term of seven years for hOuSebreak
ms. AS stated above all were youn
white men, Scruggs according to tn
prison records, being only 10 year
of age, his height being ) feet 7 in
weight $50 pounds, light brown eye
VIZ idC lltII. ne olIitI TWO dI
% years Of age. All three were brougf
mere, with several other prisoner
o Greensboro, on March 2lst. Onl
one OF them, Wilson had received
black mark, since they had been her
The Guards Idea.
Asked If he was sorry to shoot til
men. Mr.. Eatman, the guard who xii
ed Scruggs, says, "Well, 1 have II
craving to kill any - an
more a prisoner in here than q pei
son on the outside, but 1 look at
this way, l am here to shoot thel
if they go through this stockade {
attempt it, and they know it. The
if one of them gets before my gu
be may expect to take the cons,
~uerce 1 am bound to shoot the1
ana do not feel bad when l HAY
done it. L don't think III have to shoe
anOfher one soon. though
Wilson and Williams have been pl
- work again On the brick yard. M
f1atfnan was at his post Yesterday a
tCrT1tl with rifle in how'd op6 OVID,