Escaped Prisoner Located

BENNETT, DAVIS, WILLIAMS, SCULL, BINEGAR

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 6/7/2010 at 19:04:53

The Brooklyn Chronicle (Brooklyn, Iowa) Dec. 6, 1901

ESCAPED PRISONER LOCATED

It will be remembered that when L.M. Bennett was sheriff he was escorting a couple of prisoners to Ft. Madison and when near the Skunk river crossing north of Oskaloosa the culprits made good their escape by jumping from the fast running train into the darkness. The prisoners were chained together at the time. Harry Davis was along to assist the sheriff. The follows both were sent to the penitentiary under the name of Williams, claiming to be brothers as we remember it. One of them was arrested under the name of Scull. He had been found guilty of breaking into a store at Brooklyn and Judge Ryan gave him a five-year sentence. He was evidently an old timer in wickedness. Deputy Sheriff Edward Binegar informs us that he has at last located the fellow. A young man who served a month's sentence with him in the jail at Sheldon and who remembers him well enlisted in the United States army at San Francisco. He soon ran across his old prison-mate who was also serving his country as a member of the 28th regiment of the regular army. He is now stationed at the Presidio, the military post near San Francisco. Mr. Binegar has written the commanding officer relative to the fellow and it may be that he will yet have the opportunity of serving out his sentence. No doubt that would greatly please ex-sheriff Bennett. He always claimed that some day the fellow would get his just desserts.