Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-11
JEFFERSON COUNTY NEGROES ESCAPE ?omp Fleming and Henry Frank Make Their
 Getaway. HAVE BAD RECORDS Fleming Tried to Shoot Guard-An. other Murderer Got Away
 at the Same Time.
HAVE BAD RECORDS

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 10.-In a desperate effort to open their way to liberty, bunch of negro convlcts about 10 o'clock last night dynamlt- ed the end of the work car in which they were being house for the night at Bigelow and seriously if not fatal ly injured Night Watchman John Letpx, who was at his post of duty outside and at the end of the car where the explosion took place.
 The negroes, all men with bad re- cords, made their escape in the ccn- fusion, and but for the timely work of Warden G. w. Cunningham and other guards about the camp fully twenty-five convicts would have made their getaway. MT. Cunningham sc- cured medical aid as quickly as pos- sible for the injured man, and will bring him to Little Rock over the Rock Island this afternoon.
 So far the report as to the extent of his injuries is not definite beyond the fact that he sustained broken jaw and was otherwise badly hurt about the head and shoulders. Over long distance telephone this morning Warden Cunningham gave Superin tendent Pitcock the general story of the affair and stated that Lenox was in a very serious condition. Strange to say, not single man on the inside of the car was hurt so far as known.
 Had Secreted Dynamite.
 The explosives with which the end of the car was wrecked had been se- creted by the convicts during the day. They are engaged at rock crusher at the Kenney camp, near Bigelow, twenty-five miles west of Little Rock, on the Rock Island, and during the day part of their work is to blast out material from the rocky lodges for the crushing machines.
 Usually the convicts are searched as they file in for the night, but it is supposed that they hid enough dyna- mite in their clothing in some way and so carefully guarded it from the notice of the guards that the act es- capped detection. They were placed in the cars as usual and the doors bar red for the night.
 Two cars are used to take care of the prisoners, and the post of Night Watchhman Lenox is between the cars, where he can guard both from any ordinary attempt at escape by the convicts.
 When the negroes decided on their daring mode of escape they seem to have located the charge of dynamite in the corner of the car near which Lenox was stationed. They also ar ranged it with such care, owing evi- dently to the knowledge of explosives gained from much work at the crush CTS, as to shield the men on the in- side from the shock. The force blew the timbers of the car outwards and against Lenox, injuring him as above | indicated. Had Bad Records. ] The fact that the night guard was injured and naturally demanded the first attention of the other guards en- abled three of the inmates of the car to escape, but the delivery was of short duration and the score or more of others were quickly forced back into the car.
 Pomp Fleming, one of the negroes who escaped, has bad record. He is a 21-year man, serving sentence for murder. Recently while located at the state farm with other convicts Elem ing attacked one of the riding bosses, grabbed his revolver and but for the timely arrival of other guards would probably have committed another murder in his desire to escape. It is believed that he not only led in the escape last night, but that he was behind the whole plan to blow up the car. Those who escaped were as fol- lows:
 Pomp Fleming, Jefferson couny twenty-one years, murder in the sec ond degree; committed to prison May 1909
 Henry Frank, Jefferson county convicted of assault with intent to kill; committed to prison October 1909.
 Andy McKenny, Mississippi county convicted of murder in the second de- gree, twenty-one years; committed to prison December, 1909.
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