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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1906
Page
2
An incoherent excerpt blends a wild chase at gates and a grisly note on African diamond mine enclosures. It references a man bursting in, a tense escape attempt, and a long, jumbled passage about diamonds and confinement around a remote mine with crude lines about wellness tablets.
A prisoner, once a skilled machinist, studied the prison belt and wheel to reach the wall top and plotted a guarded escape. He calculated timing, tested lifting gear, and aimed to flee using the window roof, risking discovery and possible death.
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