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Kay Cunningham
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Fifteenth Year - Number 23
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 4, 1904
BROKE JAIL AT BELTON.
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BELTON, Texas, July 20. - Five
prisoners succeeded in breaking jail here last night. They secured an iron bar
that had been placed over a patch in the floor. The flour was rotten from water
eating it away: The bars to the cells had also been eaten away by the artesian
water. With the bar of iron the men pried the cell bars out and escaped.
Three of the men who escaped were:
George W. Pate, 35 years old, weight 135 pounds, 5 feet
7 inches tall; very dark complexion, black mustache; wears W. O. W. button.
Williams, 22 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, weight 180
pounds, light complexion, blue or gray eyes; wearing common clothes.
Roy McCoy, alias W. H. Hawkins, 20 years old, 5 feet 7
inches tall, weight 160 pounds; brown hair, parted in the middle; has very fine
face.
McCoy is charged with burglary; Pate ant! Williams with
theft.
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