From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/30/1862
Attempt to Break Out of Prison. – Two men, named Samuel Wyvill and
S. W. McCammon, confined in the military prison of the Eastern District, were
detected last night in an attempt to break out of the dungeon of that
institution. They had moved several bricks from the wall when the grating of the
chisel against the wall led to a discovery. Both men are in confinement for
forgery – that of Wyvill involving a loss of many thousands to the Government.
in the same paper:
From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/30/1862
Prison Items. – Six deserters were brought to Richmond yesterday
from Petersburg and lodged in prison. Henry Lloyd, a deserter from the gunboat
Torpedo, and Henry Parrish, of Co. F, 54th N. C. regiment, were also
locked up as deserters. – Charles McDermont, a soldier under sentence of
Court-Martial, who escaped not long since from the Libby prison hospital, was
found in Tyler’s Row, Rocketts, yesterday, by detective New, and was secured
and brought to Castle Thunder, after a long chase, in which the officer had
occasion twice to discharge his pistol at the fugitive, but without effect.
Eight deserters and stragglers were fished out of the vicinity of Hughes’s
Row, 17th street, yesterday and put in prison by Messrs. Crow,
Shaffer, and Fowlks, of the Eastern District police.
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