Posted
5/07/2005 01:41:00 PM
by Douglas
Round up the posse! There's been a
jailbreak! An escaped prisoner made a bee line for his own home, but he wasn't the only one with that idea.
The man fled the Collingsworth County Jail in Wellington on Friday afternoon after using a weight-lifting bar to pry apart a section of a locked cage surrounding the prisoner exercise area, said acting Sheriff Ronnie Ward.
Collingsworth County Sheriff's Deputy Redgie Daus immediately sped to the inmate's home and pulled up just as the fleeing man was backing out of the driveway, Ward said.
Daus gave chase to the man, who inexplicably circled back, perhaps to get inside his house, Ward said.
"That's where we wound up catching him - in the front yard," he said.
Good to hear
that's finally over. Now the folks in Wellington can go back to leaving their doors unlocked and their cars running in the grocery store parking lot. Acting Sheriff Ward, bat it home for us:
"We're a small town ... not too many places to go," Ward said. "There sure ain't nowhere to hide."
There sure ain't.