Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-20
Recaptured Slayer Shows No
Ennnity Towards Captors,
WithhoIdS Many Details in
Relating His Story

Calm and speaking With a deter
Imner cheerfulness, yet apparently
Ilaboring under a terrific nervous
strain and obviously disappointed at
the failure of his desperate break
for liberty, ]. Is. Satterfield, con-
demned slayer of his brotherin-law,
r. H Hart, stood in the prisoners
"run-around" at the tower Monday
night after his recapture and told
the story of his sensational escape
early Monday morning.
He did not tell the entire story,
! showing d particular reticence to
discuss the method by which he got
the fine steel saws with which he
sawed his way to freedom. Of those
parts of the story that he wanted
to tell he spoke calmly and conf
IDENTIFY, but when a question was
1asked that he did not want to an
swer, he refused with a whimsical
smile and unfailing courtesy.
He emphatically denied that he
| had received outside aid or any other
assistance whatsoever in his escape.
He also declared he did not take
any of the other prisoners into his
confidence, stating that While he
| had planned a getaway for several
weeks, he did not even discuss his
plans with Philip E. Fox, convicted
slayer of Captain w. S. Coburn, who
shared his cell before FoX's removal
| 10 the state prison farm and who
was his most intimate associate
among the prisoners.
Was Easy. He Says
cit was all very easy" Satterfield
said, land / don't think it would do
any good to tell how l did it. If
did that all these other prisoners
would get away Everybody thinks
it is hard to get saws, but saws are
the easiest things to obtain in a jail.
Many prisoners bring them in and
they are always here. 1 can obtain
saws without receiving single
visitor.
f'And 7 could do it again. It
might take me six months, but [
could get away again just as Easily
| rs I did this time. You know a
| jail is an education. I have been
here a long time, and during lat
time l rave met men who have been
in practically every big j9i! in the
county. These men have learned
things, and when they go into a
jail they usually try to arrange some
ways of escape. Some Of them would
bring saws in if they mad to put
! them unIer their hides.
"And + have talked to these men
and I "vn been learning things. AS
I said before, a Jail is al iuca-
ton. 1 didu : discuss my plans with
any Gn4 You know these tnir IS
ere never successful unless you keep
them to yourself"
Satterfieid showed no enritv to-
wards TIE two men who captured
him, w. {. l?osette and D. J.. Cush-
ION, bat refused to pose for 4 r.c-
ture with item until he had wash
"a up lit.
Rosette Turned Him 10
"That filing station mpn tHrned
me up" was Al he said Or rs cap
tors tbs statement referred 10
Rose;te, who operates filing sca-
ton at the corner of South Pryor
street and Grove avenue.
Il simply took my last chance -
he said, land there is no use in
saying 1 am sorry I did it, l am
sorry it was not successful at
tempt.
II don't know exactly what time
I left, but it must have been around
| 2:30 a. m. l understand they have
| been saying that l was not locked
in my cell Sunday night. That is
q mistake. | was locked in the in
ner cell the same as always. | am
not going to tell you how | got out,
because l got out by an invention
of my own and to tell it would give
my scheme away"
And that was the only reference
he would make to the one question
that is puz2ling his jailers more than
! anything, namely: How did he get
out of the steel inner cage in which
! he was confined without sa WING q