Butts County GaArchives News.....Bob Lee Escapes June 14 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of June14, 1895
The Negro Bob Lee, who was held for wrecking a train in Jackson jail, escaped
yesterday evening when SheriffBeauchamp was servicng dinner to them.  A white
man in jail, named Planter, flew to the sheriff assistance, or all of them would
have escaped.  The sheriff had simply unfastened the door to hand in the buckets
as usual.  Then the prisioners ran against it, knockin him down and running out.
 He and Platner caught three of them, but Lee escaped and is still at large. 
The majority  our people don’t think the Negro is guilty, or that the accident
had any malicious cause, but that the ground being wet and accidents happening
all along theline, that this came about by some defect   in thetrack.  It is a
wrong law that relieves the road responsibility when they have shown
maliciousness in the matter for the reason it makes too great an lucentive (   
  ?    )somebody to relieve the road.




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