Clay County AlArchives News.....Slipping Out of Jail  October 16, 1914
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Ashland Progress October 16, 1914
Last Saturday morning, soon after midnight, two dusky occupants of the county 
jail succeeded in making a temporary get away, one of them being recaptured the 
next morning and the other enjoying his liberty till Wednesday night. Zeke 
Treadwell, the moving spirit in the affair, has a 25-year sentence to the 
penitentiary hanging over him, but is awaiting the action of the supreme court 
in regard to his case. He succeeded in getting out of his ceil through a very 
small opening made by breaking a bar of iron where the sewer pipe entered. It is 
said that he also stripped himself and lathered his body with soap before being 
able to crawl through the opening. Sheriff Mayo and his deputies, with the aid 
of some negroes, intercepted him at an outhouse in the vicinity of his home and 
returned him to jail.

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