The Washington times., 1920-06-23
FOUNTAIN RETAKEN:
GLAD TO Be IN CELL
TownspeopIe Content TO Lot
Law Take Course With Con.
demned Jail Breaker.

| FOUNTAIN, negro, sentenced 10 ale Tor
assaultinE fourtsen-year-oid Bertha
Simpson, and who broke Jail here one
week aso. today 10 safely back In his
cell. and 10 glad TO be there.
Fountain. who had been hiding In
some woods two miles from Queen
Anne, Nd. was captured ~ 4 o'clock
yeste rday afternoon by a posse head
ed by Captain Henry, OF the Baltimore
police department. The posse sur
rounded Fountain after trailing him
all day from the farm OF Calvin An.
| derson, of Queen Anne.
The negro. foot-sore and emsciated,
was willing enough TO yield himself
to his captorr. The posse exhibited
none OF the bioodthirsty Ardor credit
| ed to searchers when the negro nrst
broke Jail. and townspeople here are
quite content today that Fountain Is
\ again in custody. and that the law
will take its course.
TELLS HOW ME ESCAPED.
The negro made a statement last
night. In which he said that Joe Alli-
son, q white prisoner at the Jail,
helped his escape, even to furnishing
a nls and helping to cut the bars OF
his cell. Allison was 4 member OF
q theatrical troupe, and 10 accused of
stealing a set of false teeth. Foun-
tains statement 10 addressed to
States Attorney Butler. II follows:
Il was In here four weeks. DIDN'T
know anything about getting out.
After this, white fellow. Joe Joe AL
lison). came in he said:
why don't you cut yourself out?
I will get you something to do II
with
Then he brought me nie. He
didn't say how he got the nlc that
he brought me- Then he started
showing me how to cut. Then he
brought a tench in front OF my door
and sat there and he cut a while and
cut a while and he told me " !
got out he would get me a piece OF
iron. a window weight Then he
brought II and said
"I'll give you this when you get
out Take the window weight and
knock the night watchman in the
head. and then we will take the rrst
auto we come UP with and leave here.
WEEK FILING BARS.
"He said I would be fool II
didn't My life was as sweet as his.
He said he knew where so many
guns were In the desk IN the jail Of
nee We were not quite a week filing q
tho bars In two. We did all our hling
in the day time. While I was hling
he was watching the office, Several
times he would signal me to stop
Ming. Joe said he was going to write
girl and get saws In here and we
will cut the bars and go out the back
way. Tuesday night the night of the
escape) nobody was here but the sher-
ia. He tJoe Allison) came to my
door. told him ! could not break
the bars. He caught hold Of II and
broke them before j could get hold
of them. .r... ..s -
81 did not take the iron out with
me. Joe got some pieces of has coal
and fastened the top and bottom oi
the bar that was cut out entireiy
when this was placed in the door
nut a towel which I had in my eel
over IL to disguise the cut About
o'cIock on Tuesday afternoon, wher
Joe broke the bar out. II made
noise. Sheriff Soulsby immediatel!
came in the door. Joe jumped up
ran up the steps and met the sherlfl
at the door. told him he was SICK anc
asked for some medicine OF some klho
During the time Joe was saving MIN
self he would maxi noises by Singing
or patting his foot on the moor II
anyone came in while was hiihs' ~
would beat on a tin bucket
ExONERATES NEGROES.
Fountain exonerated all the negroes
who have been arrested on suspiciof
that they aided his escape. lie saie
none of those held, among whom are
several of his relatives, had anything
to do with his escape.
Fountain was first seen ABOUT :
o'clock yesterday afternoon. MISS
Virginia Anderson, who Is ntteef
wears old, went to the barn ON hei
fathers farm to get horse, prepara
torv to taking a horseback ride. she
heard a noise and, looking up, saw Q
negro. She became frightened and
running back to the house, told her
mother. Her father was away at the
time.
Mrs. Anderson immediately teie-
phoned Hyde A. Frampton, a neigh
Dor. Mr.. Frampton notihed the au-
thorities at Easton and requested that
armed men be sent Immediately as
the negro might be Fountain.
Considerable difficulty was expert
enced at Easton in getting posse 10
go to Queen Anne. Practically all
available men were down in the vicin-
ity Of Hebron, in Wicomico county, In
pursuit Of negro in that vicinity
who was believed to be FOUNTAIN
About fifty men were gathered, how
ever, all armed, loaded into automo-
biles and rushed to Queen Anne. They
were under the leadership of Tramp
ton.
EASILY TRACKED by POSSE.
The negro. when the posse got TO
the barn, had gone. The hunters
were able to track him, howevcc, as
he had left marks in the ground wI.h
his bare feet. They traced Fountain
to a stream on the farm OF John
Knox. just over the line from Talbot
county.
After searching both banks for sew
eral hours they captured Fountain
while walking along q road. His feet
were swollen and he was carrying
his shoes in his hands, He drorned
to his knees and begged for his life
He said he had hidden at farms
during the day and walked across
country. keeping off roads, at night
He had eaten only what ne could
steal from orchards and had suffered
from the recent heavy rains.
Secretary OF State Perlman said
last night that the warrant for the