From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/25/1888

THE LIBBY-PRISON SALE.
Expectation that the First Payment Will Be Made To-Day.

Mr. W. H. Gray, the chief mover in the scheme to purchase Libby Prison and remove it to Chicago, had several conferences yesterday with Messrs. Rawlings & Rose, the real estate agents, and the arrangement is that the sale will be concluded to-day by the payment of a considerable portion of the purchase-money. If that is not done a large sum will be paid down for the extension of the option.

Mr. Gray and not Mr. Hallowell, the architect who came with him from Washington, were busy yesterday figuring on the cost of taking down and shipping the building. Notwithstanding the fact that a great deal of the material will have to boxed up or shipped in box-cars (to save it from the hands of relic-hunters), it is ascertained that the sum necessary to be expended for freight will be less than was at first supposed. It will not exceed $8,000. Mr. Rawlings confidently expects that the transaction will be closed to-day, though the exact form in which the deeds will be drawn cannot now be stated.

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