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The Weekly Standard
Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi
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Nine prisoners escaped from the Natchez county jail on Tuesday evening around 8 o'clock by filing off hinges and bolts and knocking down jailor Styles. Haggerty was recaptured after a chase; the other eight, including seven colored individuals, remain at large.
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"Tuesday evening about 8 o'clock nine prisoners confined in the county jail, managed to break out.
Wash. Jenkins, waiting trial; Caleb Johnson, in on fine; Sam. Brown, do.; Al.. Huston, waiting trial, all colored.
Abe Wilkins [c.]; Rose Mitchell [c.]; Abe. Perkins [c.]; J. Duncan and Haggerty, white, waiting for transportation to the Jackson penitentiary.
Where they had lodgings prepared for them for the next ten years.
It seems that they had obtained, by some means, tools, with which they had filed off the hinges and bolts of the iron grating door, and when jailor Styles went in, he was knocked down, run over, and they made good their escape to the street. An alarm was immediately given, when pursuit was made, and after a short but quick race, Haggerty was overhauled by a citizen, who, on bringing him back, met Marshal Smith, to whom he was turned over.
The others made their escape-eight in all; seven negroes and a white man."
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Natchez
Event Date
Tuesday Evening About 8 O'clock
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jailor styles knocked down and run over; haggerty recaptured; eight prisoners escaped (seven colored, one white).
Event Details
Nine prisoners broke out of the county jail by filing off hinges and bolts of the iron grating door and knocking down jailor Styles upon his entry. An alarm led to pursuit, resulting in Haggerty's recapture by a citizen and handover to Marshal Smith.