The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-25
ALLEGED FORGERS
ESCAPE FROM JAIL
Saw Out Bar of Cell Window
and Slide to Ground on Rope
of Bed Sheets.
INTEREST IN POLITICS
Matoaca Red Men Celebrate An
niversary-Other Peters
burg News.
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
109 North Sycamore Street,

100 North Sycamore Street.
Petersburg, Va, August "a
r. w. Rainey and Rufus Barnes. both
white. and both awaiting trial for
forgery, escaped from the city Jail
this morning about O'clock and have
not yet been captured. Warming has
been sent out in all directions to keen
watch for them.
Rainey is resident Of this CITY.
though a native OF Prince George He
Is charged with forging the name OF
w. ID. Temple to an order for money
and passing 1t. This was his second
oHense of the kind. for the first OF
mhlch ne served term in Jail. Rufus
Barnes Is stranger here, and was
employed on the construction force
OF the Norfolk and Western Belt Line
Road. He Is alleged to have forged
me name of the j. II. Sands Construc-
tion Company, the builders of the
belt line, to checks for money and
passing them They were to be brourh,
court.
BY means of an ordinary case knit.
"hich they converted into a saw the,,
sawed out bar of the window of tbei.
'e!i which is 'on the third noor of the
an Through this opening mo.
squeezed their bodies and safely de-
scended TO the ground by a rome made
vi their bed sheets and blankets. They
were seen as they descended. but had
disappeared before the alarm could no
eNen' Ihev separated after escape.
and have been heard from in dins enpe.
uiIee.'ons The prompt warnings sent
out 1t is believed. will result In tha,r
capture. III 'heir
oh examination It was shown ,b,,
nc "inoow bars are of the commences
'''''' instead OF steel as was supposed
OF Political Interest.
l., interest Is manifested here
~ me opening speeches OF Senator
ta TN IN Richmond and Senator swan
IN an i'awrenceville. The friends OF
ne TWO senators In Petersburg form
'"g mafrity OF the voters
me rally tomorrow night OF Mar
I'm and swanson for Organization and
campaign work will be Isrra ora
several hundred citizens have alrsadv
enroiied their names as members nf
ne cub - be organized.
ne friends of Congressman Jones.
ana Glass are preparing to give ,hsn,
an enthusiastic reception ana stl'
burg. 'e 10 refers
1t is not believed that tho ,o,..s
dig vote In Dinw!Adie county will w,
Sast at the primary on the 7,b -
september. The independent novn-
meht there Will keep a large nun,he-
81 voters out OF the primary. and This
- renewed. may materially affect
me senatorial contest and probahi,,
offices. ior county
The Dinwiddie independents wi,
Meet at the county courthouse new
monday to lay out plans for tbair
course in the coming election ans
paohao!y TO namn = ticket for countv
Two Small Fires
o,t nc department was twice called
OUT to-day AZ 70 o'clock A NJ
double tenement houA, on Bl.ck streot
owned by Mrs. j. Wachsman and orcn'
pied by white families. acciden,a,Iv
Sausht hre and was considerably dam.
aged Loss covered by Insurance
AT o'clock P. NJ, the department,
was called to South Street to save
nmei''hg owned by John Mason. coll
10 ana occupied by the family OF
s'unsIu Kirkland. coiored. The house
oausht nre from an outbu,ld!nc- uead
as a Kitchen, The loss was bon, stoo
.hc!ndins the damage 10 the <Irkjand
furniture and household effects hl
wstN' ets oy
Sad Death of Young WIFE.
Hiser lingering critically i'll OF ~.
ph3id ieVer for some time, Mrs. Carris
'eiie Berry, Wife OF j. II Berry ala
e'r'y this morning in her homo an
Bank Street. She was only twentr
three years old, and leaves her hns-
Pand and an infant child. Mrs Rerrv
was the daughter OF Charles Willia mo
Of Prince George county. who sur,
wives her. with three brothers "A
touv sisters. She was a very attrac-
tive and popular young woman. and
vas widely connected ia Prince
An Evening Marriage.
Last evening at the residence OF the
oHciatinR minister. the Rev. A r,
Love, Miss Alma kirkland and Wal
ter d Reasley. both OF this civ we're
united In marriage. \ number IF sne-
ciai'y Invited guests were present 70
witness the ceremony. The bride wa .
attended by Miss Vashti Caudle and
the bridegroom by Lee Kirkland
News In General
The famous Old Market bouse
known to Petersburgers everywhere
is to undergo thorough overhaul,
ing. II is TO have a new granolithic
moor. is 70 be thoi oughly screened and
rcpainted, and is to have new stalls
and fixtures