Mecklenburg County NcArchives News.....Pistols In The Way February 10, 1891
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, GA. February 10, 1891
How Two Women Held the Prisoner Back, A Daring Deed.
Charlotte, N.C., February 6.-- Abram Evans, one of the negroes in jail on the 
charge of stealing harness from W. E. Shaw & Co., of this city, was inspired 
with hopes of liberty last night, which inspiration, however, did not last 
long.  He picked a hole int he jail wall, but after his hours of toil when he 
stuck his head out to see how the ground lay, and to see also how much larger 
he would have to make the hole to admit the passage of his body, he was struck 
all in a heap to see two pistols stuck right into his eyes.
The pistols were held by the sheriff's wife and daughter.  Evans drew back his 
head with commendable celerity.  After having locked the cell doors last night, 
Sheriff Smith took a look into the cells and found everything, as he thought, 
all right.  In one cell there should have been three negro men.  Casting his 
light into the cell the sheriff saw what he thought the forms of three 
prisoners, but as afterwards proved one form was nothing more than a blanked 
rolled so that it looked like it coverd a body.  

In the jail were two negro women, who were not locked in cells, but who were 
allowed the liberty of the corridors.  Satisfied that all was right, the 
sheriff came up town to serve some papers, and when he got back, an hour or two 
later, he found his wife and daughter keeping guard, as already described. 

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