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A Prisoner Shot While Trying to Escape from Jail.
Special Correspondence Memphis Avalanche.
AUSTIN, Miss., April 1, 1879
On Sunday afternoon last as the young man, Wm. Kennon, who has charge of our jail, was attending
to his duties in the cage of the prisoners, three of the prisoners made a break toward him, expecting to knock
him down and run over him, but Kennon was too quick for them and fired, hitting Silas Cox, convicted of manslaughter,
in the face. The ball entered the side of his face and lodged against his jaw bone. Cox pleaded guilted
to the charge of manslaughter at the last term of the Circuit Court, and was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The two other men were Wm. Love and Tom Edwards, the former having been sentenced to
be hung on the 18th of this month. Thomas Edward is in jail on the charge of horse-stealing. They are
all desperate men, and great credit is due Mr. Kennon for his prompt and decisive action in preventing their escape.
[April 3, 1879, The Daily Avalanche, Memphis TN - Submitted by Debora Reese]
PROCLAMATION $50.00 REWARD
Penitentiary Convict John McGee has effected
his escape and is still at large. Reward for the arrest and delivery of said convict to the Board of Control of
the Penitentiary. Description: No. 337, John McGee, Age 27 Height 5'6; complexion, hair and eyes: black Left check
scarred and left eye out, from burn, left ear drooped from same cause, back of left hand badly scarred from burn
Occupation: Laborer Crime: Manslaughter Sentenced July 31, 1888 for 5 years from Tunica county Escaped Jan. 5,
1890 from J. H. Brahan, Sergeant, in Sunflower county.
Penitentiary Convict has effected his escape and is still at large. No. 256, Albert
Reeder or Albert Read, age 23years height 5ft 8in., complexion, hair and eyes:
black scars on nose between eyes, on left breast, on point left shoulder, on left arm above elbow, on left wrist,
on left shoulder blade, on back of left arm, numerous scars on back from whip lash, scar on left knee Occupation:
Laborer Crime: Burglary and larceny Sentenced from Tunica county, May 24, 1887 for 10 years Escaped from Ben W.
Sturdevant near Graball in Tallahatchie county March 8, 1889 Reward for the arrest and delivery of said convict
to the Board of Control of the Penitentiary. [The Clarion Ledger, May 23, 1889
- Submitted by Candi Horton]
Claims Mistaken Identity
Memphis, Tennessee, January 6. - Charles T. Whitman,
who lives in this city and has large lumber interest in Tunica County, Mississippi, has been arrested on the supposition
that his name is L.C. Sink, who is wanted
in Columbus, Ohio, for a forgery committed ten years ago. Whitman claims that it is a case of mistaken identity.
[Bismarck Tribune - January 1, 1892 - Submitted by Francis Cooley]