Raleigh, May 29—The escape of one prisoner and the re-capture of three fugitives has been reported by State Prison authorities. W.G. Ross, white man from Rowan county, serving a term of three to five years for larceny, escaped Thursday from the Caledonia prison farm he was in the field supposed to be plowing at the time of his escape. A reward of $25 has been offered for information leading to his re-capture.
Floyd Herman Bennett, sentence to State Prison for from three to five years for kidnapping, from Mecklenburg county, and who escaped in February, was reported under arrest in lake city., Fla. Identification had been made by finger prints.
Alfred Banks, negro, who had been sentenced from five to 10 years for housebreaking who escaped from a prison camp rock quarry near Asheville, was reported to be in custody in Pasquotank county, where he is facing new charges. He will be tried there, and if convicted, will serve whatever his new sentence may be and then returned to complete his unfinished term at the prison here.
William Jordan, negro, who escaped form a prison road camp in Madison county, and who was serving a term of from seven to 10 years for housebreaking from Buncombe county, is in the Michigan State Prison, the prison here was notified. Identification in this case was also established by the finger print method.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, May 29, 1926
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