Raleigh, Aug. 30—Sawing through the iron bars of his cell window and sliding down the prison wall on a rope of bed clothing, Dr. J.W. Peacock, slayer of Chief of Police Taylor of Thomasville, made his escape from the state prison before daybreak this morning and tonight is somewhere out in the free world.
All he left to greet the insane ward’s keeper when he made his first round at 6 a.m. was a new hack-saw and a note expressing his “regrets” at the hasty departure.
Dr. Peacock worked a clever scheme. If he was insane, he was one of those smart fellows. At any rate, he must have had help from both the inside and the outside.
--Brock Barkley in Wilmington Star
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 31, 1922
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