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Show GARRY OFFCOWICT MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH RESCUED FROM VIRGINIA JAIL BY FRIENDS. Mountaineers Rids Into Town and Alter Rtltasing Fntnd From Prison, Pri-son, Having Ovtrpowtrsd tht Guards Stt Him Frtt. Livingston Va Mountaineer friends of John Moore, under sentence to he electrocuted for the murder of Frank Howl, descended iiHin the Nel son county Jail 111 I o'clock Friday morning, stormed the building snd rescued the prisoner. It Is supposed he will be luken to the mountains and liberated At an early hour seventy five men from the moiiuialn section wneie tne crime wus committed procii'ded to the county Jail. Admission was gained and the guuiria awvd Into non resist enee. Moure wus then released. Precautions had I n taken by the mob to prevent uu alarm. Almost ua quietly as they entered tho town the departed for the mountains. It wss not until some hours after thu, rescue that the news sprean slid de ptity sheriffs were on their way Into the mountain district to try to rearrest rear-rest Moore. Theonly tutegraph wire- -leadlaa Into the section of the country wqera the crime was commuted and where Moore's friends live, was cut beforo the reacue. Moore waa condemned to death at Hlchmond on September 2r. after being be-ing convicted of murdering Frank Howl In Nelson county Isst May. |
