Butts County GaArchives News.....Negroes Attempt To Escape From Jail January 1909
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Butts County Progress January 1909
Negroes Attempt To Escape From Jail

Tom Glynn, Notorious Character Was About to Dig Through Jail Walls When 
Officers Intervened.

Friday afternoon Tom Glynn, a negro recently placed in jail on the charge of 
selling whiskey, attempted to escape from the county jail by digging through 
the brick walls.  After dinner the prisoners were let out in the jail yard 
while the cells were being cleaned up.  Taking advantage of this liberty Tom 
Glynn secured a coal shovel and while another negro picked the banjo to drown 
the noise he set himself to work to dig through the walls and escape.

Two trustees, Andy Taylor and Charlie Talmadge, colored, wanted on the charge 
of murder having surrendered to the authorities found out what Glynn was bout 
and sent word to Sheriff Wilson.  When the sheriff arrived on the scene he 
detected Glynn actively  engaged in digging through the walls.  He had removed 
two or three layers of brick and only one more remained.  He was put back in 
his cell.

It is likely that Glynn will be indicted on the charge of attempted jail 
breaking.  HE escaped from jail once before and got out of the penitentiary 
only last summer and returned to Jackson and was soon arraigned for selling 
liquor.

Butts County Progress
Week of January 29, 1909


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