Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — FAIRMOUNT MAN BREAKS JAIL [ARTICLE]

FAIRMOUNT MAN BREAKS JAIL

Officers Search for First Prisoner Who Escapes from Cell. Marion, Ind., Feb. 16—Officers of the law in Grant county are on the lookout for Jean Brown, who escaped from the jail at Fairmount, and officers of that city are making an investigation of the getaway in hope of ascertaining the Identity of the person who liberated Brown by breaking a padlock on the jail door. Brown was put in jail last Saturday on a charge of intoxication, shortly after his return to that city after a several weeks’ absence. He has the distinction of being the only prisoner who ever escaped from the Fairmount lockup. ,