The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
YOUNG GETS AWAY FROM COUNTY JAIL Trusty Borrows Keys and un- locks Street Entrance HAS NOT YET BEEN CAUGHT I Man Was Arrested Last November For Crime In Rome, Ga., and Was to
 Have Been Transferred
 This Week.
JAS NOT YET BEEN CAUGHT


 Ga., on the charge of misappropriating funds, and who has been a trusty at the county jail for some time, unlocked his way to liberty from that place about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, going through the doorway in the Twenty-first street wall. His escape was discovered within a very few minutes, but up to an early hour this morning he had not been appre- hended.
 Young has been confined in the county jail practically all of the time since the 29th of last November, having resisted at tempts to carry him back to Rome by habeas corpus proceedings. He was ar- rested four different times on the Georgia three charges. Each time that he was re- leased however, he was immediately re- arrested on another warrant.
 The fourth time the writ of habeas corpus was denied him, and he appealed it to the supreme court. That body passed upon 1t last week and affirmed the de- cision of the lower court, and Young was to have been taken back to Rome tomor- row in charge of Policeman Paul Cole, receive a reward when he turned Young over to the Rome authorities. Young has wife and two children in Birmingham, and was living with them at the time of his first arrest.
 His escape was a simple but nervy one. Deputy M. Wise, bailif of the circuit court, had relieved J. P. Lantznaster, one of the inside wardens, and was assisting Inside Warden D. L. Bridges. Young has been granted the privileges of a trusty for some time, and was allowed to remain in the corridors, all outside doors to which are locked. Wise and Bridges made the regular afternoon check of the prisoners in the jail, finishing about o'clock. Young assisted them in this work. 2.
 Bridges was seated at the desk in the corridor working on the report. WIse was in the corridor and Young asked him for his keys so that he could carry pie to a negro woman in the old jail, the woman having asked him to do 50. Wise gave him the keys, and Young delivered the pie, returning the keys in two or three minutes, and staying in the cor ridor.
 A few minutes after this Young's ab- sence was noticed and a search started. Several deputies were at the sherin's of flee and they immediately scattered around the outside of the jail walls whils the inside wardens started the search from the inside.
 It took but a moment to tell the story. During the few minutes that he had the key Young had unlocked one door to the old jail, crossed through 1t and unlocket another door on the ether side, then into the jail yard and unlocked the door in the wall to Twenty-hrst streeet Instead of taking his liberty when he first un- locked this door he turned his back on freedom and with nerves of steel went back into the jail and turned the keys over to Wise, staying there few mo- ments and facing strong chances of de- feating his attempt to escape.
 The nerve of his act dispelled any sus- p.cions that pedestrians might have had of him. In the country his capture would have been a certainty, so short was the time from his escape until the discovery of it, but on busy city streets 1t present. eG baffling proposition. large num- Der of deputy sheriffs searched the town all night for him, watching all outgoing trains and following every possible clue.
 The inside wardens do not have key tc the main entrance doors of the jail. the only key to this having been in charge or Outside Warden Newman. The inside men, however. have keys to the Twenty fi.st street entrance, whiohis locked from tine inside, and this was the route taken hv YOunR