Greensboro, Oct. 27—Arrival of a deputy sheriff with a prisoner for the Guilford County Jail tonight was reinforcement for the jailer, who was grappling with an alleged notorious yeggman, the later having a gun, and a jail delivery of a dozen men was prevented.
When Jailer Dallas went to the men’s corridor in the county jail here tonight to take some apples a prisoner had bought, he found himself looking into a pistol in the hands of Jerry Farlow, alleged yeggman, indicted here in federal court on a charge of robbing the post office at Pilot Mountain.
Dallas attempted to close the door, which has an automatic lock, but the desperate prisoner jammed it with his foot and attempted to open it and let out all other prisoners. At this time, H.P. Causey, deputy sheriff, arrived, and Farlow trained the gun on him. Dallas then grabbed Farlow’s arm and took the pistol.
In the jail, among the other prisoners, were two other alleged safecrackers and three youths who recently robbed the bank of Summerfield.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 28, 1925. Last name spelled “Dallas” and “Dalas” in original article. A "yeggman" in the 1920s was a safecracker who used dynamite to blow open locks.
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