Butts-Henry County GaArchives News.....John Berry – Captured Quickly March 3 1891
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Middle Ga. Argus - Week of March 3,1891


A Negro Escapes From McDonough Jail, But is Followed to Butts and Captured by 
Two Sheriffs.

John Berry, col., who is under sentence of death in McDonough jail made his 
escape on Monday of last week by breaking through a wall in the corridor, where 
he had been left by the sheriff for a few minutes to make a fire.

He made his way towards his old home in this county (Butts) but was closely 
followed by Mr. Newt Glass, the ever active sheriff of Henry County.  He came 
down on the night train and secured the aid of Mr. Beauchamp and through some 
shrewd and sharp work they succeeded in capturing the scapegoat at Elisha 
Slaughter’s,  on Mr. Taylor Buttrill’s farm four miles west of town about three 
o’clock next morning

The Negro had been cleanly shaved, had his hair cut close and had on a clean 
suit of clothes and was sitting by a warm fire enjoying a smoke when he was 
cornered on and carried back to his old cell.

A prisoner will have to be sharp to elude to such officers as Glass and 
Beauchamp.



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