The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-12-15
NEGRO MURDERER
SAWS HIS WAY OUT
JAMES GOoCH, HELD IOR KILL
ING WOMAN. ESCAPES
FROM JAIL
sJSPE CT COLLISION
SERGEANT SATTEEITELD IN
ABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR SAW.
NnOITSAI.E DELIVERY
THV ARTED.

During the hours Of 9 o'clock Sat
lrday night and o'clock yesterday
morning James Goecn, alias James
Rogers. colored. under Indictment for
.he murder q Lula Broadius, on
Mouday November gath, escaped
rom the city Jail.
The man was last seen Saturday
uight by the Taller He was among
he missing when the doors. leading
% the cell tiers. were opened yes
erday morning at Is O'clock.
City Sergeant satterfield was i'm
aediateiy notified. lie went 70 the
Jail, aud. upon Investigation, round
hat ;hs murderer had gotten into the
''nu'i zen" or basement Of the jail.
through "A mauhaie. leading from an
abandoned toilet room on the second
der.
Uses Saw
After reaching this secluded and
unoccupied place, Gooch. by means Of
a fret saw. cut "a bar in the east end
Of the jaif. at the end Of the hull
pen" and cut through the thick wire
screen the same way-~~and away he
weat. through the city stable property
an ta freedom.
The escape was reported to the po-
lice. Judge Richardson, Common
weal;f's Attorney Folkes, and Jus
lice Crutchf9eld. and Sergeant Sat
terfield offered q reward Of 500 for
the capture Of the fugitive.
There is no ono to blame sold
Sergeant Satterheld last night 1T
was Just enc If those things that
might happen at any time and any
where Two very good men were
~ ID F1s. 4
Daley and Richard Allen. ] have the
utmost confidence in these men. The
inll is In sort OF torn-up condition.
Plumbers and locksmiths are making
much needed repairs We have to
transfer our prisoners from one place
to another, while these repairs are
being made. The tiers are very much
congested and this man had the op-
portuniiy ~ slipping through the
crevice in the old toilet room, down
into the deserted basement, This Is
a place in which there Is little reason
for the men TO go. There is NO tell
ing how he happened to GET the saw,
RI is very common one at that. and
the apparent ease with which he cut
Il would indicate that the bar Itself
In common"
The uol5ce are IN the lookout and
detectives from Headquarters are
securing the city and other places IN
search of the man, whose trial was
set for an early date. He was In
aic,ed at the last meeting Of the
grand jury.
The Murder.
The shooting Of Lula Broaadus oc~
Cured in tne afternoon of Novem-
her cath, IN the alley IN rear Of lG
East Marshall street. Gooch had
a - al -,
friends that he was going to shoot
someone and then go away. He il
said 10 have claimed the woman as
hts wife Immediately after the
shooting the man ran away. but was
captured few minutes later by
Mounted Officer wsldrop and Police
men Walsh and Kersey
The negro had received few callers
at the jail. The last one was that
Of a man calling several weeks ago
with clothing. This clothing was
thoroughly examined. according "a
Sergeant satterflcId. and the PACK
age contained nothing that could NJ
used toward effectrg ar escape
mo one has called Ia see him
since that. time" said Sergeant Sat
terrified last night, and that is whore
the mystery arises as 10 how he arm
ed himself with the saw" The sa w
was found lying on the floor near
the window, through which he es-
capped.
1t is believed by some OF the po-
iicemen that the saw was furnished
by some one else In the Jail, and tha'
there was plot on hand for a whole
sale delivery which was frustrated
rome way. either by movements Of the
iafi officials or the duplicity OF
TGoch.