Show I 1 ESCAPE CAPE cafe AND the ile indian yode wit wie who was arrested some months since for stealing a mule taken before justice clinton and in default of bail committed to the county jail to await the action of the district court and was indicted at the regular term and then admitted to bail to appear for trial at the adjourned session which commenced on the instant some persons persona having more confidence in him than the majority of community going his security was put upon trial for the offense on friday last found guilty by the jury and by their verdict required to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the term of one year on the rendition of the verdict the judge ordered the marshal to commit him to jail to await his sentence next day but the order was not carried out from the fact that the indian was missing he having before or after the jury returned to the court room with their verdict either with or without the know knowledge ede ed e and consent of the marshal made his escape e from custody and was not to be found and so far as ascertained no effort was made that night to find the errin erring 0 that the order of the court might be enforced and the verdict of the jury carried into execution sometime me du during rin g the evening yode called on mr sir allred acting jailer for a purse containing some sixty dollars that he had given him to keep at the time he was first imprisoned which if the ar arresting officer or magistrate had searched him as in duty bound they would have discovered and secured at the time of the arrest and p preliminary examination on the assurance of the indian which he had no reason to doubt under the circumstances not having heard of the escape that the jury had not found him guilty and that he had been discharged allred gave him the money whereupon the indian immediately put off the next that was seen or heard headd of the notorious villain and thief he entered the house of mr orren Jefford jeffords sp near union twelve miles south of the city about midnight and demanding something to eat that was not forthcoming to his notion he drew a revolver and threatened d to shoot mr jeffords who immediately seized the pistol and succeeded in holding it till a neighbor who was alarmed came to his assistance when they disarmed and bound the desperado and took him before warren foote estr the next morning to be dealt with according to law raw in the course of the forenoon he was brought back to the city by constable morrell together with a fine horse and saddle found in his pos possession sessi on and delivered up to marshal dotson taken into court then in in session searched and ana divested of the money and every thing else found on his person the judge then passed sentence upon him instanter be before fore he had time to escape again and if he does not breakout break out of the penitentiary will probably not steal any more horses or mules till after his term of service expires how he succeeded in getting out of the court room so mysteriously has not been satisfactorily facto rily explained neither where nor how he came in in possession of the horse which was at once recognized on delivery as belonging to the marshal who of course did not let him have it in order to facilitate his escape to prevent the execution of the law there is also some mystery about the pistol that has not been ex pla pia ined yode refusing to tell where he got it and to whom it belonged no blame so far we know has been attached to marshal dotson in relation to the matter as he is so decidedly anti theocratic that no one could even suspect that anything 0 was wrong in the premises tho under other circumstances cum stances if a prisoner who had escaped from custody had been found in possession of his keepers horse it would have been proof positive with some that there had been an understanding der C between him and the prisoner about the tile escape of a criminal nature that is the difference between people and folks to say the least it was decidedly a serious joke and in all ali 11 probability another of the kind will hot not no t be ve likely very soon to occur |