The Roswell Daily Record

DOSS BOYKIN ESCAPES FROM PORTALES JAIL.

A. M. Boykin, better known as "Doss" Boykin, and two Mexicans escaped from the Roosevelt county jail at Portales early Thursday morning and are still at large. A search is being made for them, and Sheriff Joe Lang has offered a reward of $100 for Boykin's capture. The manner of the escape is not known here. Boykin was arrested for killing his brother-in-law, Henry Stoltz, about two years ago. At the last term of court in Roosevelt county he was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary. The case was appealed and he was confined in the Portales jail awaiting the appeal. Both he and Stoltz were well known in Roswell. In Sheriff Lang's reward cards Boykin is described as follows: 6 feet high, light complexion, dark brown hair, gray eyes, about 30 years old, slender built, a little stoop shouldered, of nervous temperament. The Mexicans were in jail for minor offenses. Their names were not mentioned.