Newton County GaArchives News.....ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE August 13, 1891
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The Georgia Enterprise August 13, 1891
     Sunday morning when Sheriff ANDERSON went to feed the prisoners in the 
jail, two Negroes Tom DICKERSON, burglar, and Oscar CRIDDLE, water melon thief, 
attacked him with a bottle and broom handle, ran past him as he stood in the 
cell door, and attempted to escape by running. The alarm was given and CRIDDLE 
was caught by Mr. W. H. EVANS within two hundred yards of the jail. Mr. W. H. 
WELLS held up Tom DICKERSON with a shot gun in Mr. I. W. BROWN'S orchard. One 
of the Sheriff’s fingers was badly hurt, one of his knees sprained and his 
Sabbath shirt soiled, as one of the Negroes pushed a large water melon rind in 
his face just as he was in the act of handing in their breakfast. What was left 
of the broom handle was worn out, over DICKERSON'S head, who by the way is 
perhaps one of the meanest and most trifling Negroes in Newton County.


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