Calhoun-Ionia County MI Archives News.....Ionia Trustee Escapes September 18, 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Johnson McDowell texas26@gmail.com May 6, 2009, 11:39 pm Grand Rapids Herald September 18, 1899 Ionia, Mich. Sept 18 - John Smith sent from Calhoun county on June 22, 1898, for burglary, for two years escaped from the state house of correction Saturday night through the chapel cupola by means of bed sheets tied together. He was a trusty janitor and his sentence would have expired in February next. No trace o fhim has been discovered. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/calhoun/newspapers/ioniatru177gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb