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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Federal Congress. (search)
, were at breakfast, a lady (one of the teachers engaged at the Lancastrian school,) saw the fugacious rogues, and sent over to the jail to let the keeper know what was in progress Mr. Hall hastened with all speed the rear of the jail, and passing into the room under the "work house," used as a coal-house, found there, in the act of getting through, the grating, the lock of which had been broken, a man named Francis Osgood, lately consigned to the jail for committing a highway robbery on John Driggers, and Alabama soldier, and Wm., N. Miller, the bogus volunteer Colonel, who succeeded in December last in swindling King & Lambeth, of this city, out of $700, by forgery and false representations. --Orgood, a burly ruffian, surrendered at discretion, but the doughty "Colonel," evinced a desire to go through at all hazards til brought to reason by the presentation of navy revolver. Being conducted to their cells, an examination was held into the extent of the injury inflicted on the jail