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Show IS RELEASED, Mountaineers Enter Jail and Take a Prisoner ! From Guards ! j Livingston, Va., Oct. 21 Mountaineer Mountain-eer friends of John Moore, mulcr sentence sen-tence to be electrocuted, tor the inur-ili-r of Frank Howl, desceuded upon tbe Nelson county Jail at 1 ocloCK this mortilng, .stunned the building and rescued the prisoner. It Is supposed he wtl! be lu'..en to the inountaiiid and liberated. At an early hour " armed men Irom the mountain section where the crime was committed pioceedod to the coun-tj coun-tj jail Admission was gained and the guards, awed by the men, nude, no lesistance. The prisoner was then released. re-leased. Precautions had been taken by the mob to prevent an alarm. Almost as quietly as they cn.ored the town they departed for the mountains It was not until some hours after the rescue res-cue that the news spread and deputy shoriifs were on their way Into tho mountain district to try to re-arrest .Moore. It Is feared that bloodshed will result from the attempt. The only telephone wire leading into in-to tho section of the country wnerc the crime was committed and where Moore's friends live was cut beforo the rescue. Moore was committed to death at Richmond, on Nov. 2."th. after being convicted of murdering- Frank Howl in NcHon county, last May. |