Description
“Five Prisoners Escape From the Platte County Jail Last Night – Frank Garrison One of Them.” - - There was a wholesale jail delivery at Platte City between midnight and 2 o'clock this morning. Those who gained their freedom are Frank Garrison, the negro who was being held for trial for the murder on Stiger's island of Franz Allrich; James Geer, awaiting trial on the charge of attempted rape at East Leavenworth; Joe Hamilton and Ned Hilton, accused of burglary, and Bob Brushwood, who was serving a jail sentence and whose time would have expired next Thursday. That the inmates of the jail bed help from the outside is evident from the fact that a big stone had been dug out of one of the walls of the jail, all the marks showing that the work had been done by persons not in the jail. It required but little effort after this stone baa been removed to make a hole large enough for the men to crawl through. The colored cook at the jail was awakened shortly before 2 o'clock this morning by what seemed to be a rasping noise. She aroused Sheriff Dillingham and that officer on making an investigation found the jail empty. He at once set his bloodhounds at work, and giving a general alarm soon had several searching parties organized and by daylight a wide circle had been traversed in pursuit of the fugitives. At 5 o'clock this morning Sheriff Dillingham at the head of a posse was scouring the neighborhood of East Leavenworth. The police of this city were notified to be on the lookout and at all the bridges along the river the tenders were instructed to report the passage of any suspicious looking characters. A reward of $25 each is offered for 3 of the fugitives. Detectives Brady and Sutton found what they believed to be a hot trail this morning and started out, confident of overhauling some of the fugitives before night.Date(s) of Creation
9/21/1897
