Show A koi Oti outrage doy day taken from our jail by force about 2 oI clock saturday night seven persons persona appeared I at the door of our jailor jailers Jai lors residence adjoining tile the jail and asked the h pim lege of lodging a prisoner until morning mornine air ir W W V BI Biot own the jailor informed the them that he be had bad no authority to admit any one who was not regularly committed to his cli charge rg I 1 a and nd at first refused their request aest tha they ey resisted irs isted that they the hid had a notorious horse thief abom vi horn they had arrested in andrew county after a long and fatiguing pursuit that they were wol wom 11 out with the exertion th they eylia had made and were unable to glaid him that lie was a det desperate character over whon too much vigila vigilance nee could not dot be exea these represent representations lations tat ions so well CIcula c circulated ted to deceive at any tune time could riot not now when vi hen cases suc such h as the one reported are of almost daily occurrence fail ot of success they I 1 hey were mere permitted to enter tile the prison with their man hie jailor was about to assign him a place in tile ioa er apartments hen ile he remonstrated aa against f list bi being 1 I n g put in with a lot of rie negroes groes a and r 1 it be being g suggested ug that the upper one in in it chich aich do day ie lias as con confined lined was a safer place be was a t taken up tip to it when the door was unlocked ui locked the mask was thrown over their actions they told the jailor that tile the change they wished to make in the program pro gramme time was to turn out one man instead of putting one in they were after doy and with a cocked pistol Is tol presented demanded his bis quiet release an attempt to give an alarm would be the signal griat of his its browns death under such circumstances resistance resi stanca stanco was scarcely to be thought of they took doy but refused to let any other 0 one ne of the prisoners escape averring that hi his rescue was aas their sole object A part ot of the company issued forth with D do toy I 1 others remaining remi ining to ta preserve silence until sufficient time should elapse to rentie renie I 1 escape certain and safe the nigh most mos favorable for the execution of the plot the rain fell in in torrents and under cover of a daran darkness I 1 ss as black as erebus there was little danger of being detected by any ally one outside at that hour the isolated situation of the jail too the nearest house being a square or two distant favored the caal clandestine ies job As soon as permitted the jallo jailor r hurried to 1 i tile the residence of tie tl e sheriff who at once ac 1 aisted various of our most active young oung I 1 gentlemen but it i was as of no avail doy arid and his were gone probably across the river if not no one knea where it is is certain from the acquaintance of the parties with the locality and the fact that such a night t as saturday was chosen that the scheme was thoroughly matured and by parties either living in our city or so near here as to be read ready y to act at an hours notice we think it entirely likely the prime movers lne live in st joseph this is is a most bagh handed banded outrage and one that we fear may prove most uli unfortunate fortunate for or the peace of the border bolder between kansas bof and missouri it if the laws are to be thus disregarded and set at inaus naught ahti it will riot not be strange it if in in the future persons charged with negro theft should be hung up to the nearest tree without the benefit of trial to such results is is this doy day case certainly calculated to lead nothing has ever occurred in in our city which had created en abed so much in indignation dig nation arid and it is is only I 1 the prevalence here of a conservatism noi ser vatis ism which it i has ever been the lionor honor and boast of our citizens that have prevented the summary and extralegal extra legal ejection or of certain parties from st joseph S at joseph G gazette july 20 25 |