Butts County GaArchives News.....BROKE JAIL July 8 1892 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 May 26, 2004, 11:16 pm Middle Ga. Argus – Week of July 8, 1892 Ira Taylor, col., who has been lying in jail for some time on the charges of stealing a small quantity of soap, broke through the walls of the jail on Tuesday and made his escape. Mr. Crawford, the jailer allowed him the privilege of the room surrounding the cages and by the aid of a small piece of iron picked some brick out of the wall and walked away. Sheriff Beauchamp quickly followed his tracks and found him hid in a gully in the rear of Mr. Cavert’s. He was brought back and now rest in a steel cage. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb