Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — A Prisoner Escapes. [ARTICLE]

A Prisoner Escapes.

Ike Middleton, the saloon and gambling crook, of Fair Oaks, who has been in jail for the last month or two, awaiting trial for illegal selling of liquor and permitting minors to play pool, has been claiming to be sick for the most of the time of his incarceration and for that reason has been treated with much leniency by the sheriff. He had many times besought permission'to be allowed to visit his wife and children at Fair Oaks, and last Saturday Mr. Yeoman permitted his deputy, Orlando Yeoman, to take him to Fair Oaks for that purpose, Middleton making the most positive pledges not to make any attempts to escape or to misbehave himself in any way. On arriving at Fair Oaks the deputy permitted YJiddleton to go into a room with his wife, for a little private conversation, he piomising upon his honor to make no attempt to escape. When the deputy called for him in 10 or 15 minutes he w r as gone. He had slipped out of the back door, taken to the thick brush which abounds in that vicinity and made good his escape. The deputy, procured assistants and scoured the woods all day Saturday and Sunday, but without catching sight of the lost jail-bird. He is still continuing the search, over a wider scope, but at' last accounts had no reliable clue to Middleton’s whereabouts.