The Shockoe Examiner has the story of a jail break from the old Henrico County Jail in 1939:
Imagine the surprise, then, when eight desperate young men, most convicted burglars and car thieves, apparently vanished from their cells before headcount on the morning of November 5, 1939. Seven of the eight had attempted to escape only weeks before by slugging the driver of a prison bus near Fredericksburg, and were facing long sentences for that attempted escape. Instead of assaulting their jailors, this time they managed to get on top of a steel jail tier and burrow out through the brickwork above a first-floor window of the jail.
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RT @chpn: Jail break on Main Street (1939) http://t.co/mckdnZWzEh
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