Girls Escape from Whitfield County Jail
Atwood Surname
Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia (1920)
Story from Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia, published in The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Cherokee, Georgia).
"Two Girls Escape From Countl Jail"
"Dalton, Ga. April 22.—On the night following the recommendation of the grand jury that no prisoners be confined in jail until a new jail could be erected here, two girls, Ottie May Arwood and Bertie Owens convicted in court and being held until they could be sent to the state farm, sawed the bars of their cell on the ground floor, climbed the stairs, crawled out of a hole in the brick wall and swung from the second floor, gaining their freedom.
"Just where the prisoners got the saws is not known.
"Tusday night, the Owens girl was recaptured and again placed in jail."
[Source]: Arwood in "Two Girls Escape From Countl Jail" (dtd. Dalton, [Whitfield], Ga., April 22), The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Cherokee, Georgia) 1880-19??, Friday, 23 April 1920, page 4 (digital image 4), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, The Library of Congress.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn87090231/1920-04-23/ed-1/seq-4/print/image_562x817_from_1889,5205_to_2681,6356/
(10 February 2022).
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