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Show Take Away His Peg Leg to Keep Him in Jail Hyattsville, Md. James Watkins, alias "Peggy," nimble "peg-legged" colored man, who walked out of Prince George's county police court about a month ago, when no one was looking, had no opportunity to repeat his escapade recently when he was again brought to the courtroom, court-room, for police removed the peg leg and placed it behind the judge's bench while the man himself was "parked" in the corner of the room furthest from the door. Watkins was captured two weeks ago after being at liberty several weeks. At that time he was located lo-cated In a swamp behind the Bla-densburg Bla-densburg jail and ran so fast, police po-lice reported, it took half an hour to catch him. The other day he again tried to escape from the police, po-lice, using suicide as a means. He was discovered hanging in his cell, but was cut down and revived by the Prince George's county rescue squad. |