Good old days

8 years ago

The Commoner

May 17, 1889

William Chambers, one of the quartet of tramps brought down from Farmington a few weeks ago and lodged in the county jail on a charge of assault, the particulars of which were published at the time, escaped from the jail yard through the help of some of his comrades on Wednesday morning by scaling the stockade and has not been recaptured although Sheriff McLean and deputies have used every endeavor to run him down.

He is described as being 30 years old, five feet 10 inches high, weight 150 pounds, eyes blue and crossed, mustache thin and red, very red ch...