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Escaped jail.

--On Sunday afternoon last six prisoners made their escape from the Henrico county jail, and have not yet been recaptured.--Their names are as follows: Jack Hite, sent on before Judge Gregory on the charge of hog-stealing; William Spicer, charged with stealing a cow; --Childress, charged with stealing a horse from the Confederate States; Robert Gentry, a free negro, charged with stealing clothing, and two negroes, imprisoned as runaways.

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