[Marshall] Texas Republican, January 7, 1860
We learn that a few nights ago, Mr. Bell, our jailor, gave the prisoners who were in jail in the cage, an oven of coals to keep them warm, and that having a razor in the cage with them, they converted it into a saw, with which they cut the cage, and then with their fire burnt through the loft of the jail, and were preparing to pick the brick out of the gable end of the building, and let themselves down with their blankets. But the jailor happening to hear them at their work, went up and put a stop to their operations, and blasted their expectations of a Christmas frolic on the outside.—Henderson New Era.