John Berry - Captured Quickly

A Negro Escapes From McDonough Jail, But is Followed to Butts and Captured by Two Sheriffs.

John Berry, col., who is under sentence of death in McDonough jail made his escape on Monday of last week by breaking through a wall in the corridor, where he had been left by the sheriff for a few minutes to make a fire.

He made his way towards his old home in this county (Butts) but was closely followed by Mr. Newt Glass, the ever active sheriff of Henry County.  He came down on the night train and secured the aid of Mr. Beauchamp and through some shrewd and sharp work they succeeded in capturing the scapegoat at Elisha Slaughter's, () on Mr. Taylor Buttrill's farm four miles west of town about three o'clock next morning

The Negro had been cleanly shaved, had his hair cut close and had on a clean suit of clothes and was sitting by a warm fire enjoying a smoke when he was cornered on and carried back to his old cell.

A prisoner will have to be sharp to elude to such officers as Glass and Beauchamp.

Middle Ga. Argus -  Week of March 3, 1891

Submitted by Don Bankston