From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 6:32 AM
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Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Jail Break Stopped, 1921, Harlan Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 29, 1921

Jail Delivery In Harlan Is Thwarted In Early Hours Of The Morning
   Harlan, Ky., Jan. 29 -- An effort to effect a wholesale jail delivery at
the Harlan County jail here on Tuesday night was balked by Jailer J.C.
Metcalfe, it became known here yesterday.  Six negro convicts had almost
worked their way through the two foot thick walls of the jail, only one
layer of stone being between them and liberty when the attempt was
discovered.
   Three of the men, Ernes Washington, Sam Hines and Walter Davis, are
charged with murder, while the fourth, Ed Austin, is charged with theft.
The fifth, Henry Jones, is under sentence of two years in the state
reformatory at Frankfort for shooting another negro.  All five come from
Lynch, an unincorporated town in the eastern end of the county.

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