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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
Six prisoners escaped from Roanoke county jail. --On Thursday, about 7 o'clock, when the jailor, Mr. J. C. Huff, was entering the jail for the purpose of giving water to the prisoners, he was caught hold of by two of them and pulled to the floor. Ten of the prisoners then ran out, but three of them were immediately captured by the citizens, who very soon gathered around the jail.--Another was caught a short time after. The other six have not been heard from. The prisoners that have escaped are some of those sent to our jail, some time ago, by Gen. Wise, taken up by him in the Northwest, upon suspicion of treason to the State. We publish below a description of those escaped, handed us by the jailor. Tobias Mariana, Kanawha county, Va., about 5 feet 11 inches, rather pale and slender, an Italian, aged 25 years. Philip Frankenburger, Charleston, Kanawha C. H., about 19 years old, fair complexion, about 5 feet 2 inches, a Jew, from Germany, talks broken. Wm. Springer, a