Burke County GaArchives News.....Burke Prisoner Flees and is Shot July 25, 1931
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The Augusta Chronicle July 25, 1931
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE - JULY 25, 1931
BURKE PRISONER FLEES AND IS SHOT 
JOHN BROOKINS BROUGHT TO AUGUSTA. GA FOR LEG AMPUTATION WAYNESBORO, GA., JULY 
24 - JOHN BROOKINS, WHITE, WHO WAS SERVING A SENTENCE OF EIGHT MONTHS ON THE 
CHAINGANG WAS SHOT IN THE CALF OF THE LEG LAST NIGHT WHEN HE AND LEROY COWART, 
WHITE, SERVING A THREE YEARS SENTENCE, ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE FROM A CONVICT CAMP 
ABOUT FOUR MILES FROM THE CITY IT WAS LEARNED HERE TODAY.  COWART WAS CAPTURED 
AND BROOKINS WAS APPREHENDED ON THE FARM OF J. V. BURTON, AND, WHEN APPROACHED 
THE OFFICERS, DREW A STICK AND MADE A DASH FOR LIBERTY, ACCORDING TO W. L. 
DECK, SUPERINTENDENT OF ROADS.  THE GUARDS THEN FIRED TWICE IN THE AIR IN AN 
ATTEMPT TO STOP THE FLEEING PRISONER, AND ANOTHER SHOT WHICH STRUCK BROOKINS 
LEG.  BROOKINS, WHO HAD BEEN SERVING A SENTENCE SINCE MAY 17 ON A CHARGE OF 
VIOLATING THE PROHIBITION LAW, WAS CARRIED TO THE UNIVERSITY HOPSITAL IN 
AUGUSTA WHERE IT IS SAID, IT WAS FOUND NECESSARY TO AMPUTATE HIS LEG.



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