From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/27/1861, p. 2, c. 4
Attempt to Escape from Jail. – A plot among the
prisoners to escape from the city jail, was discovered and frustrated on Monday
last when it was about to be put into execution. – They had torn up their
blankets and made a long rope of the strips, with the assistance of which they
intended to scale the wall.
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