Guy Wells and Sam Reece, two young white prisoners, sawed their way to freedom from the Jackson county jail Saturday night and have made good their escape at the time this is written.
Wells was under sentence to serve one year on the roads for breaking and entering Monteith and Davis’ store; and Reece was sentenced to 18 months for shooting Pierson Owen at a prayer meeting in Canada a few months ago.
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Oct. 21, 1925
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