Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-02
BEAT JA|LER;; ESCAPE
Negro Desperadoes Break Out
of Alexandria County Jail.
CAVALRY VAINLY HUNTS
Scour Country About Fort Myer in
Fruitless Guest.
FUG1TIvES BOTH BAD" MEN
Burglaries and Hold-Ups Traced to
Them-Custodian Is Knocked
Down by Criminals.
BOTH Dad" MEN

| Special Correspondence OF The Star
ALEXANDRIA, Va, September >. 1905
| First beating up Jaier Harry Crack OF
| the Alexandria county Jail, Fort Myer
Heights. Richard Mcguire. alias Corn
field Red and Samuel Hines. two ne
gro desperadoes who were held for the
action of the grand jury on charge of
shooting a man and committing a num-
| Der Of hold-ups and robberies in the
county. made their escape at $50 o'clock
| last night.
AS the men left the Jail they were pur-
sued Jailer Crack. The fugitives sep
arated and took opposite directions.
Jailer Crack fired four shots at Nc
CURE. AS the fugitive ran he dropped
his hat.
| Within a few moments both men were
| lost sight of in the woods adjoining the
courthouse. Dense fog at the time MADE
| it almost impossible to see the men after
| they got 100 feet from the jail
Jailer Crack Immediately started up the
| road to spread an alarm. He met George
| H. Rucker, clerk of the county court.
| Rucker drove Crack to Fort Myer, near
| by. where the matter was reported to
| the officials.
Cavalry Scours Countryside.
| In exactly forty minutes afterward a
company of cavalry. numbering fifty
men. started out in pursuit
The entire vicinity was thoroughly
| secured by the troopers. No sign or the
! prisoners was discovered. Inc men were
| supposed to have taken the direction to
| Falls Church.
The troopers remained in the woods
! until shortly after midnight. Then they
| returned to the fort. Police headquarters
| in Alexandria was notified OF the jail
| breaking.
| Chief Goods. accompanied by several
| policemen today made a search of the
! railroad yards in this section. He found
| no trace of the fugitives.
| Jailor Crack gives an account of the
| escape. He says he had just entered the
corridor--a steel cage in which the cells
| are inclosed, the Jail being practically
a Jail within a Jail of the most modern
! pattern-and had removed his KEY and
| placed IT in a cell door to lock I'D the
'trusty' when the two negroes attacked
| him.
One hit him over the head. The other
! knocked him down. He succeeded, how
| ever in locking the door on the "trusty.'
| The two men sat upon him and beat him.
| Then both prisoners fed through the cor
| rider and down the steps. escaping by the
! side door. which adjoins the courthouse.
| Crack explained that the two men were
at the toilet, one waiting on the outside
while the other was within. 1t is gen.
orally believed that both men had care
! fully planned the escape. Crack gives
his reason for admitting them to the toilet
| in the corridor was that the toilet in the
| cell was out of order.
Both Are "Bad" Men.
| Police officials in this city were sur
| priSed to learn of their escape. Both
men are regarded as dangerous at large
although when they escaped they were
| unarmed.
Among cases fastened on them were:
The shooting of Manuel Tavares, a Bra
lillian fruit dealer of this city: the hold-up
and robbery of a. NJ. Roberts of the
| Plains, Fauquer county; the burglary at
the residence of David Petit. Alexandria
county, together with numerous other
| robberies.
| Both MCGUIRE and Hines. together with
| three other negroes. We're rounded up by
the police of this city about three weeks
ago. in connection with the robberies. The
prisoners were afterward identified and
held for the grand jury.
| Mcclure is about thirty years Of age
and came to Alexandria from Tampa
Fla. Hines is about the same age, and
told the police that he came from Ala
| bama.
| When they left the Jail both were with
| out coats. Hines wore black SLOUGH hat.
| The police of this city are of the opinion
| that If the men are not still hiding in the
woods they left on a southbound freight
| at the Potomac railroad yards.