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Jail Delivery

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
March
Year
1884
Copyright
Public Domain
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Of the seven prisoners in the county all tliree escapee! last night by cutting a hole through the brick wall on the back side of the building. The opening is perliaps ten by tblrteen inches in size and s In the game place thiougli whieh risoners have cut and escaped bcfore. It is liought that parties from the outside renlered assietance. Of the foor reuiaining, vho could have freed themselves if they ïad been so disposed, the eentence of two expire soon, and the others are demented )ersons. Sheriff Wal lace offera a reward of twenty-five dollars each for the arrest of the escaped prUonen, who are decrlbed as followt: W. A. Howell, 5 feet 9 inces high, weight ICO pounds, light complexión, full dark be&rd, wore light gray sult, age 35 years, black stiff hat. Wui. Lorangar, age 24, 5 feet high, weiglit 30 pouiuls, dark complexión, small dark uustache, wore dark brown checked suit, mail cap. Jas. Eaton (colored), aged SS, feet 4 inches high, weight 145 pounds, wore checkered suit, yellowish cast, round elt hat. Howell was conliued for seourïg money under false pretenses, and gainst Loranger and Katon were three cases ench of larceny. Will tlic citizens of Waslitenaw county liot lict-tl the latei-t evidenee of a rotten juil and " vote for tlie loan " at tlie cominir eleclion f With tilla and much othur evidence of the thoroughly unfit condition of thc Wuslitemivv county jail can we desire any better argument for the county's need of a decent and safe struuture for the conflneinent of her prisoners?

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News