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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
Attempt to break Jail. --On Thursday night, an attempt was made to break out of the City Jail, by the inmates of cell No. 1, William Cockston awaiting trial for a forgery, said to have been perpetrated a couple of years since, and Albert L. Riddell, confined on the charge of passing and having in his possession a large number of counterfeit South Carolina bank notes. The prisoners intended to make their way into the yard by digging a hole through the brick work at the side of their cell-heir cell-door. It was in a fair way of becoming large enough, when they were discovered. They will no doubt in future be secured with irons, to prevent similar attempts at enlarging their spheres of operation. Owing to the absence, in New York, of Don T. C. Peters, a witness against Riddell, his trial before Judge Lyon cannot take place before the May term of the Hustings Court. The City Jail is a rickety old concern, and a new edifice of the kind is one of the requirements of the times.