The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-26
Earl Huntington, Harry Mar
shall and David Herbert
Managed to Gain Freedom
While at Work in Jail Yard.
SLIPPED THROUGH GATE
THAT is NEVER LOCKED.
Officials Made a Search Until
Late Thursday Night But
Found No CIeW--- Marshall
Is the Most Wanted.

Thursday afternoon about O'Clock,
Earl Huntington, Harry Marshall and
David Herbert, three prisoners con-
fined at the county Jail, made their es-
yard which is in the rear of the jail.
Sheriff Meredith has not yet located
them He states that he does not care
If Herbert or Huntington ever come
back, but that he will make an effort
to recapture Marshall, insane, who was
arrested about six weeks ago for shoot
ing his father, with intent to kill. at
his home near Arba. Huntington is
the most notorious crook in the coun-
ty. At least third of his life has
been spent in the county Jail. About
month ago he was sentenced to 800
days Imprisonment for assault and
battery on ex-Patrolman William Col
den. Herbert has a police rec
having served time alternately on
charges of wife beating and intoxica-
given about three weeks ago. 65-day
jail sentence.
Gate Never Locked.
Thursday afternoon Turnkey Ray
Harris took about twenty prisoners to
the stone pile yard in the rear of the
Jail, where they were set to work
cracking rock. This yard is surround
ed by ten-foot board fence, which is
supermounted by lines of barbed wire.
A gate in the east fence opens onto a
grass plot on the south side of the
brick wall which surrounds the Jail
yard. The gate is never locked and
it is regarded as strange that prison
ers at work on the stone pile have nev-
er attempted to escape through this
gate 1t was left to the veteran Jail
bird. Huntington, to set the example.
Was An Easy Trick.
About o'clock, Amos Abbott an
insane man, who is kept at the Jail,
and who acts as water carrier when the
other prisoners are at work cracking
rock, left the stone pile yard to fill a
bucket with water. When he returned
Abbott set the wafer down near the
gate. Huntington, Herbert and Mar
shall, evidently by prearranged
plan, sauntered toward the bucket as II
to take drink. Suddenly Hunting
ton un1atched the gate. and in the
twinkling of an eye, he and his pals
shot through it to liberty. Harris
could not pursue, owing to the number
of prisoners he had at work in the
yard. However. the turnkey hustled
his charges back to Jail and then start |
ed out after the fugitives. who had
run under the c., G.. Il l.. trestle, thence |
through the piano works lumber yards, |
down the river bank. They forded the
river to the west bank and the last !
they were heard Of was at Tests Mills.
There they asked farmer for drink |
Of water and stated that they intended
to go in swimming
Track Was Lost.
Turnkey Harris followed the men |
for a short distance, but lost track of
them so he returned to the jail where
he met Sheriff Meredith who had been
in Hagerstown. Meredith. Deputy
Mashmeyer and Turnkey Harris
searched for the fugitives until about
o o'clock Thursday evening. but all to
no avail. Meredith is extremely anx-
ious to recapture Marshall as the
young man was recently adjudged in
sane and is regarded as a dangerous
person. Description cards of him
will be sent out broadcast. AS long
as Herbert and Huntington keep out of
the county the authorities will not wor-
ry over their whereabouts Sheriff
Meredith stated that the gate through
which the men escaped. will now be
closed and an entrance into the stone
pile yard will be made through the
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