Article clipped from Alton Weekly Courier

HORSE ■ THIEF ESCA FED.;By a no to from a valued correspondent at Carrollton, dated August 2let, we. ore informed tbat SrsNCEtt, alias Wxeluks, who had been confined in jail at that place for same months, awaiting his trial, on a charge of horse stealing, macie his escape on the night of the 19th/ nrid had mot been retaken at the time the note wag written. .Are not the lock-ups of Greene'and Jersey counties, as well at* of oar own,, .unequal to the use for which they were designed, or are the outside abettors too numerous and cunning for. those who execute the laws?
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Alton Weekly Courier

Alton, Illinois, US

Thu, Aug 24, 1854

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