#oatmanville

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The Hop - Capitol Board - Avenue Runaway - Plain Drunks - Recital and Lecture - Better Work Than Hired Men - Electrical Experiments

21 DEC 1886. Austin Daily Statesman.

LOCAL SHORT STOPS. FRESH. CRISPY GLEANINGS OF RECENT NOTEWORTHY HAPPENINGS.

The hop at Turner hall to-night, will be exclusively for students and invited guests. Admission $2.

The Capitol board was in session yesterday, and discussed, among other matters, the proposed changes in the roofing of the new capitol.

A street car team ran away on the Avenue Sunday afternoon, but was promptly checked by Sergeant Palmer before any damage was done.

]The recorder’s court was graced yesterday with three plain drunks—Wm. Allen, J. H. Desero and Charles Brooks. Each was fined $5 and costs.

The notice of reduction of pay, or rather the pay per hour hereafter to be given to workmen on the capitol, is conspicuously posted on the grounds.

All interested in musical culture should take notice of the recital and lecture to be given to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, by Mrs. E. B. Harding, at the Blind asylum. Mrs. Harding desires especially to announce that seats are free to all.

Mr. Sawyer, superintendent of county convicts, has twelve men at work on the Fredericksburg road out in the Oatmanville precinct, and reports that they are doing good service. The county commissioner from that precinct states that they do better work than hired men.

A horse in the shafts of a furniture wagon ran away on Red River street last night, upset a butcher’s wagon, threw the driver out, and then ran into a street car bound for Scholz’s garden. It didn’t upset the car, but it knocked the driver out and bruised him up somewhat, and, what was worse, made him “madder’s a wet hen.”

The Innocents club met last evening at the residence of Col. Foltz. The principal features of the evening’s entertainment were some electrical experiments, conducted by Dr. McFarlane, which were highly interesting and enjoyable. The club will give a reception during Xmas week to one of its members, whom they will know no more as a singly blessed being.

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The Plot Failed

22 MAY 1886. Austin Daily Statesman.

SHOT AND KILLED. A CONVICT CONSPIRACY NIPPED IN THE BUD.

Early after dinner yesterday a break for liberty was made at the convict camp at the Oatmanville quarry, which resulted in the killing by the guards of a convict names James Hutton, lately sent up from Travis county for a term of five years. According to Hutton’s dying statement to Sergeant D.B. Boykin, in charge of the camp, a plot had been formed by twenty-one of the convicts to make a break immediately after returning to the quarry from dinner, but owing to a lack of concert of action the deceased was the only one to make the effort to regain his liberty. Immediately upon starting to run the guards called upon him to halt, and only when about to make good his escape did they open fire upon him, several of the guards fired simultaneously, and Hutton fell to the ground fairly riddled with bullets. Dr. Fisher was at once dispatched for, but the prisoner lived but a few minutes after the messenger started to town after the doctor. Hutton asked Sergeant Boykin to write to his mother about the manner of his death, and said he attached no blame to any one, unless it was to a fellow convict, Joe Sturtz, who planned the escape and then failed to run at the appointed time. It was fortunate for the neighborhood of Oatmanville that the plot failed, for the turning loose of twenty convicts among the hills and woods of that vicinity would have resulted, doubtless, in the loss of a number of horses belonging to farmers in that locality. Hutton was a young man of good address and quiet demeanor; while Sturtz, who planned the effort at escape, is a notorious character, one of the very worst convicts in the Oatmanville camp.