Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — BOLD JAIL DELIVERY. [ARTICLE]

BOLD JAIL DELIVERY.

Id alio Crooks Hold Up Their Guard and) Make Good Tlieir Escape. IFt. Paul telegram.] A dispatch from Blackfoot, Idaho, gives the details of a most daring and successful jail delivery there. Henry Nickerson, in for horse-stealing, was furnished with a revolver by his wife, who has been visiting him daily. With the revolver Nickerson held up the guard, who had accompanied his wife to the cell. The pair disarmed! the guard and locked him in the cell. They then liberated Aleck Woods, a negro wife-murderer, and one Williams, also convicted of murder, both sentenced to hang July 22, and another horse-thief, and locking up the rest of the watchmen the entire party escaped to the outside, where horses were waiting them. Woods, weighing 250 pounds, would not trust a cayuse, and took to the bush on foot. The others fled on horseback. The sheriff, returning an hour later, organized a posse and soon recaptured Woods, hut was still in pursuit of the others at the last account. As the criminals aro armed, adespernte and hpjt fight is likolv-.