Bill Davis, white man from Roxboro sentenced in court here last Friday to serve eight months on the chain gang for the theft of an overcoat from W.J. Montgomery, escaped from the chain gang camp this morning, county officers have been advised.
Davis told camp guards this morning that he was sick, so he was left in the camp with double shackles on his legs and arms. In some manner he cut the chain, pried open one of the barred windows and escaped.
Officers in nearby cities and towns have been asked to be on the watch for him.
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 29
He was found in Charlotte, where he had been arrested for stealing a watch.
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