Frank Brown, who was one of the seven prisoners who escaped from the county convict camp on North Road some weeks ago, and who was shot through both eyes while attempting to break in the store of Will Veasey, a Granville county storekeeper, is still in the county jail, after having been released from Lincoln Hospital some days ago. He will be tried on new charges as soon as he is able to attend court. His wife, who it was alleged aided him in several of his little raids after his escape from the camp, has already been tried on various counts and convicted.
Clyde Montgomery, who got too high class for some of the menial labor to which he was appointed at the road camp, cut loose one day out there and headed for parts unknown, but a bullet from the gun of a guard lodged in each of his thighs and he was forced to halt, giving up his plans for freedom and facing an extension of his already sufficient, for him, time. Both negroes face a return to the convict camp, and it is thought that after this Montgomery will not be so pert about the kind of work he prefers to do, while Brown will in all probability face a far longer term of road building that was his lot before his escape and subsequent depredations.
From the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, July 6, 1924
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