The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-02-09
WAS NOTED YECG
Reward for tie Capture Of Tennessee
Dutch" Has Not Been Claimed
his CAREER RECALLED

Famous safe-Cracker Vas hill " III
s,or;d. and his Body Would Have
to be Delivered to tni'ec STATES
>s.ss,, Adams in Charleston in
Order to Get the 500 Reward
Some s,;sht apprehension is felt
:, me United States Marshais on!ce.
aers the News and Courier. by reason
O. the fact that CARRIER NeS7e. a"aS
..rs,,essee Dutch" the noted yess.
has been killed in Florida. ano
s>or,s the Young man who brought
down the yegg desire the reward OF
eeoo offered eo- Moore. ae wouic
have to bring the body to Charleston
.,a deliver It 20 the United states
,a-sha, OF his deputy. The otncia!s
are Of course. glad that Tennessee
Dntch" is dead. and MaTshal Adams
would like to pay the reward. out ae
does not desire to have the BODY oe
posted n bis Office
Moore and a pal were killed some
4,-oe ago IN Tallahassee. and the ooa-
sas we-e emhalued and kept for icea-
-iaca.ioa by possofsce inspectors
..rannessee Dutch" had an inter
a..;,V career from the time he De
ssme yessman. and had he lived
- writ. story OF his life. the BOOK
von,d have had a ready sale But one
~ the mos. interesting escapaoes 0.
his lie probably was When ae
csoed from the Jail at GreenVii1e ias'
March. ~
"Du.eh" and a pal. George HOT,
.., wa-a cao.u.ed after one OF thei:
-.,ss :, this State and locked mp IN
+sa iafl a. G-eenrille to await ira
=, the United States Court on 'oe
.,,rpe Of sate-crackius. The pal:
we're locked up apart from the oene:
,-isone-s and could not be sees. ou
.o,,6 converse together. 4aes
,,s friends on the outside. and i
v,s noticed afterwards that al ire
opert intervals bag OF fruit woa.e
ha brought TO the jail snd handed q
+,a ,-ssoners. They consumed 'f'
e-ps. hut eaca time carefully put 'o'
bag away for future reference.
They were supplied. IN some way
with niero-glycerine or some otne
Sigh explosive. and they planned :
nIow through the cement aooE o
the,- cell. Their manner OF WORKING
was novel il the extreme. Every
ZINE th.. Horton was about to set OF
tha exp,os,ve Dutch" would stan'
nv with q paper bag in MS haoo
blown up. and simultaneously wis'
4he explosion he would burst the bag
and throwing the pieces out OF q.
cell into the passage. would EeaaE'
., ,oro tones: That was goo'
one" or that one made big noise
fellows" The noise from the e1pio
sion OF the citro-g:ycG-in was sup
posed 20 have been the noise 0, IN
oopp!ng OF the bag So Horton an
Moore worked along uninterrupted
unts, they had enough OF the zoo
blown away TO enable them 10 escape
and one morning n. March the pai
were missing.
Ynmec;ately the alarm was stsei
.na officers were notified OF the es
cane. One OF the means o. identiIE
ing Horton was that q part OF III
left arm vas missing. and this rae
was made known. Dutch and Hos
tor sped away. got safely across u
line and continued their oawa1'
march into North Carolina leaS'n'
G-eenville farther behind al the SET
ting OF each days sun
The pair went along until sae'
reached e station about SIX nai!e
from Asheville. Here deputy mar
cha, by the name Of Rodgers. wnt
wss oa the alert noticed the paiE an'
wen. afse. them. He did not snoo'
,o- the reason tha. be wanted to o.
e,re before he ared. and he W.:
looking sc- man with one arm ou
Horton was carrying his oveseoae Q!
The stump OF his left arm. and koo
gers came close to then before 1t
called to then, 70 surrender. lmme
s,ately Dutch" and Horton grabbed
the officer. and while Horton was bus
i,y chewing OF a part OF his ear
..Dutch" go: possession OF the ofhces
nis,ol and decam2ed. leaving his pa
70 his fate. Some railroad men II
the vicinity, hearing the call for help
went TO the rescue. They succeeoea
In oYerpowe7ins Horton ano suose-
ouently he vas landed safely n '1s
TAIL at G-eeaviile. Horton was 'ase'
.rias and convicted and IS low se7T-
ing time IN the pe2i,ent:aTy at Az
!anta-
After the aCair nea- Asherii!e'
Tennessee Dutch was lost sigh; o.
.or a tine. but Pos;ofice Iaspeeto!
Gregory still worked TO get news
Of the missing yessnan- His efforts
were rewarded. and last fall ne !ocat-
ed Dutch IN New Fc.A State
Thi,her the inspector hieG. and so'
or the trail o: Dutch. but just ae
the time be thought he would land
his man, be learned that Dutch
had bought railroad ticket and le't
on q train for the South
Landing again on his native heath.
Dutch formed cop.r.nersaip with
another yeggmaa. evidently new
man IN the business. however. and
together they planned TO rob the
rostotsce at Tallahassee. Florida
One night in December the two ap-
oearsd AZ the back door of the post
man