Butts-Newton County GaArchives News.....A Thrilling Chase – After a Fugitive Who Ran Under a Bed to Escape January 7, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County January 7, 1898
The mail carrier between Jackson and Covington had quite a lively experience 
one day during Christmas week.

He was arrested for carrying concealed weapons and while at the Mayor’s office 
made an escape and ran swiftly away into the eastern part of the city hotly 
pursued by officers.  The fugitive was lost near the residence of Mr. J. R. 
Sams and the race abandoned.

Quite a time after the chase was given up something was said about the man 
having been seen near Mr. Sams’ residence.  Mrs. Sams was uncomfortable over 
this information and in order to assure herself that no one was concealed on 
her premises she began a search of the various apartments.  In one of the rooms 
she stooped looked under a bed and saw an object that looked very suspicious 
and an closer inspection found it to be a man.

Mrs. Sams is a woman of rare presence of mind in emergencies but Mr. Sams says 
her exclamation was loud enough to be distinctly heard by this man under the 
bed, at least.  He crawled out and thinking the officers were waiting around 
the house tried to reassure Mrs. Sams and asked her not to be frightened as he 
was only hiding from he officers.  But Mrs. Sams was indignant and ordered the 
man to leave the premises, which he did at a 2:40 gait.  In attempting to pass 
the depot he ran into the arms of Policeman McMichael, who landed him safely 
behind the bars after a thrilling escapade

Week of January 7, 1898


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