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"A letter from Marshall, Missouri, dated September 21, says: On last Sunday (19th September 1852) a runaway Negro man was arrested near this place, put in the upper prison room in jail, and this morning (Tuesday, September 21) he was among the missing.
He received aid and comfort from an outsider, who entered through the family department of the jail (being vacant) and got into the garret loft which led him over the room where the prisoner was, and there, with an ax chopped the hole through which the stove passes, large enough for him to pass through it, and thence made his escape, and nothing has been heard of him sense.
I am told that he belonged to a man in or near Weston, Platte County, by the name of Murphy, and then he was making for Kentucky, from whence he came."Date(s) of Creation
9/30/1852