The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-07-12
FUGITIVES STILL
AT LARGE AND NO
CLEWS ARB FOUND
Authorities Think They win
Come Out Of Hiding in
Few Weeks.
Wife Of Alleged Horse Thief
Comes to Paducah.
NEED OF A NEW COUNTY JAIL

No more Of the thirteen prisoners,
who escaped from the county jail
Saturday afternoon, have been recap
tured. Many rumors have been heard
as to the location OF the Jail birds,
but the police are not In the posses
sion OF any facts. Some of the pris-
oners we're seen leaving the city out
the Benton road, and 1t is believed
that they are in hiding not far from
the city. All the surrounding towns
have been notified of the escape and
the civil officers are on the lookout
for suspicious characters.
Five men were reported as leaving
on a north-bcund freight train Satur-
day afternoon, but Patrolmen Merry
and Patillo Kirk went up the railroad
and none of the men were located
Saturday night a squad of police
raided several houses In Mechanics
burg and Tyler, but failed to find any
of the prisoners. II is reported that
a number of farmers residing near
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railroad have missed chickens
and suspect the escaped prisoners of
doing the work.
The police believe that all Of the
men will be picked up. For the first
week or two they will remain in hid
ing, but the police say some of them
can not refrain from visiting old
haunts, and they depend upon pick
ing the men up then.
II was reported that Cicero Ander-
son was seen leaving the city Satur-
day afternoon on the ferryboat.
In the confusion, resulting from
the escape, 1t was reported that Bob
Ford. colored, had escaped, but he
is still in prison, and 1t was Henry
Miller, colored, charged with house
breaking, that left through the hole.
Need New Jail.
The jail delivery has started the
usual talk OF the need of a new Jail.
Some of the county officials favor the
erection of a reinforced concrete
building, from which they say Il
would be impossible to escape by dig
ging through the wall. The grand
jury has recommended that a new
jail be erected. Should II not be
done It Is probable that the doors in
the concrete wall will be closed up.
The wall is practically no protection
with so many openings.
Deputy Jailer Joe Purchase, who
was on his vacation last week, has
returned to work.
Mrs. Wright Here.
Mrs. George Wright. wife OF the
alleged horse thief, who was among
the prisoners to escape from the Nc
Cracker county jail Saturday after
noon, arrived last evening from Nash
vile on the Richardson. Mrs Wright
is in delicate condition and expect
ed to receive aid from her husband,
to whom she sent $40 recently. She
was given a ticket back to Nashville.
Wright was a gypsy horse trader and
was caught in the lower end of Cal
loway county by Sheriff Eley, OF
Marshall, making his way toward the
Tennessee line with the horse OF a
McCracken county man. gle said
he bought the horse from Stranger.
After his arrest his wife drove
through TO Paducah and her horse
dropped from fatigue at the edge OF
the city. She held an infant In her
arms as she drove all the way. The
authorities expressed great sympathy
for the woman, who is in a pitlable
plight. ....-