From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/27/1861, p. 2, c. 4

Attempt to Escape from Jail. – A plot among the prisoners to escape from the city jail, was discovered and frustrated on Monday last when it was about to be put into execution. – They had torn up their blankets and made a long rope of the strips, with the assistance of which they intended to scale the wall.

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