Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — WHOLESALE JAIL DELIVERY. [ARTICLE]

WHOLESALE JAIL DELIVERY.

A wholesale jail delivery at Toledo, Monday night, of the prisoners in the Mad Hon county jail, has set tho county in a fit of excitement. A novel scheme was played by the prisoners. To secure their liberty they opened the lock to the cell of the corridor with a wooden key at 9 o’clock. As the sheriff entered to put the prisoners to bed, two that were secreted beh nd the door struck him over the head with a chair leg and knocked him insensible. His pockets were rifled of a revolver. Four colored men, who were held on a charge of burglary, escaped.