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25YEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the Jon. 12, 1961 edition
While the town of Washington,
Va. slumbered Tuesday night, one restless inhabitant was quietly making preparation to travel. Silas Woodward, who was confined in Rappahannock County jail on three charges of breaking and entering, piade his escape from the jail between bedtime and 1:30 a.m. by way of three locked doors. At 1:40 a.m. Deputy Guy Burke, who is custodian of the jail and lives in the building, was awakened by Sonny Deal, a prisoner awaiting trial for burglary, Deal came from his cell to report that Woodward had escaped. Mr. Burke found all of the doors of the jail wide open. Apparently with outside aid Woodward was gone. The theory is that someone had entered the building and taken the keys from a desk in the hall, opened the outside door, the cell block door and the door to the cell, freeing Woodward. If this is correct, the keys were neatly replaced in their usual container on the desk. This would be perfectly plausible since the back door to the hall was not locked. Deal, who was in the same cell as Woodward, claims he heard nothing and was awakened only by cold air from the doors left open.
Due to snowy Weather and icy conditions, the water meters for the town of Washington were not read for December.
Four members of the Society of Gideon visited the Rappahannock County High School Tuesday and presented each teacher a Bible as a gift from the Society.
A group from Bethlehem Methodist Church met at the parsonage at Criglersville last Tuesday evening and presented their pastor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Easton, with a silver vegetable dish as a gift from the church. Each family attending also gave Rev. and Mrs. Easton a gift from the pantry or freezer.
20 YEARS AGO RAPPAHANNOCKNEWS From the Jan. 13, 1966 edition
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