The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-07-03
L. u VAUGHN
MAKES ESCAPE
Greonville County Man Accused of
Unspeakable Crimes in Orphan Asy.
Inm Saws his WAY to Freedom.

Onspeakable Crimes in Orphan Asy-
lum Saws his Way to Freedom.
Greenville, June 26.--T. u. Vaughn,
former superintendent of the Odd
Fellows' Orphan home, located near
Greenville, and prisoner in the
county jail since May 81, charged
with the triple crime of rape, living
in adultery and procuring an abor-
tion," the alleged victim being an or
phan girl under his care, sawed his
way to liberty early today and tonight
hees before the pursuing arm of the
law with the odds greatly in his IA
vor
AT o'clock this morning Jailor
Phillips was aroused by negro wo-
man prisoner, who was confined in a
cell on the second floor above
Vanghn's cell, telling him that some
one was escaping from below. Before
the jailor could reach Vaughn's cell,
the bird had flown. The alarm was
quickly spread and a determined but
unsuccessful search has been made
throughout the day for the fleeing
prisoner
Aided by Outsiders.
1T Is practically certain that Vaughn
was aided by one or more persons
from the outside, and it Is said that
Jailor Phillips rushed out into the yard
In time to see two men go over the
jailyard fence. The prisoner made his
escape by severing section Of one
OF the window bars with q hack saw.
A short distance from the point where
he clambered over the Jail yard fence
he stumbled and on the spot was found
the saw frame, pieces of the blade. the
prisoners hat and letter addressed
to him. The hole through which the
man went measured twelve by seven
inches, and only one bar was sawed In
twain. In the vacant section today
was seen the section Of the bar the
man had sawed out 1t had been
wrapped In cloths to deaden the rasp-
ing sound of the hack saw. On the
floor OF the cell lay the prisoners
thumbed Bible, copy of Writers
poems an da copy Of Pilgrims Pro-
gress.
Ugly Evidence.
Some rather ugly looking evidence
OF carelessness on the part Of the
county officials with their prisoner
and of guilt on the part Of the mans
brother in assisting Waugh to es-
cape has been brought to light to-
day. 1t is reliably stated that the
mans brother purchased the hack
saw and three blades from a local
hardware concern week ago today
and Chief of Police Holcombe, who
learned of this purchase at that time.
stated today that he at once notified
the deputy sheriff and the jailor to be
on the alert, as Vaughn's brother had
that day purchased a hack saw and
blades.
Well Supplied With Money.
The fugitive is evidently we'll sup
piled with money as the records in
the office of the register Of mesne
conveyance show that since he was
placed in jail he mortgaged his home
for the sum Of $4,000 He Is a man
of rather keen intellect and is well
Informed and the county authorities
realize that they have a difficult task
TO perform II they capture him. AS
to whether he is armed, they do not
know
Not Only One Victim.
The Vaughn case created some
thing OF sensation in Greenville
when the warrant for his arrest was
sworn out. The press, out of con
sideraton for the Odd Fellows order
and the orphan children at the home
and out of respect for the sensibili-
ties of the public, has suppressed a
volume of details of the Nervousness
of the life Vaughn is charged with
having led at the time he was in
charge of . orphan home. While
the warrant against him charges him
with wrongihg only one girl, a state
ment in writing has been seen by this
correspondent wherein this girl states
that OF her own knowledge Vaughn
wronged six of the orphans in addi-
tion to herself
FALLING HAIR.