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Robbins - Taylor

Source: CDJ 2 Nov 1894 p 4

Yesterday morning- Taylor Robbins, Dan Winchester and Tom Riley escaped from the Tippecanoe county jail at Lafayette by sawing into the corridor and then overpowering deputy Condon. The police here learned of the affair quite early and kept a lookout for the gay trio, all of whom were wanted for very serious charges—forgery and larceny. In the evening it was learned that one of the chaps was in town and resting at the home of Charley Harnard in the north end. Marshal Grimes, who engineered the affair, took Officer Bannister and swooped down on the residence. Charles Barnard and Oscar Waite were there with Mrs. Ben Crowe and all assumed an air of injured and cherubic innocence when asked if they were entertaining a stranger. Of course they were not and hadn't seen anyone outside the family since sundown. Officer Grimes sometimes gets real rude, however, and even doubts the word of a high toned lady like Mrs. Crowe.  He proceeded very placidly to tear down the bed and yank out a woe begone and footsore individual, who looked too disgusted to express his thoughts in words. Naturally the inmates of the house were greatly surprised to learn that a bad man had entered the house and got under the bed without their seeing him. "Law sakes!" exclaimed the righteous Mrs. Crowe,  "I wonder where he come from." The man was Taylor Robbins and the charge against him is grand larceny, he having robbed a man at the Clark's Hill fair. He is a bad case and the Lafayette 'papers pronounce him the ringleader of the gang. He stated that he walked all the way from Lafayette and his footsore condition seemed to prove it. He cursed his luck very heartily and took his capture with a bad grace The police received word that a reward would be paid for him and Marshal Grimes took him up to Lafayette at noon.

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