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10 DEC 1886. Austin Daily Statesman.

IT DIDN’T REVOCATE.

Jeff Cain has long been a familiar character in the city. He went to the penitentiary some time ago through the stern dictate of the law. Any one knowing Jeff, would be willing to say that he didn’t go of his own accord. In due course of time Jeff was pardoned out, and came back to Austin. He was here just about two days when he got in a muss of trouble, was arrested and fined in the recorder’s court. The governor heard of Jeff’s misbehavior and revoked the pardon that had been extended. The governor was made very sore by Jeff’s bad conduct and to talk pardon to him was dangerous for several days after his escapade. The revocation was all right, and everything would now be smooth and Jeff would again be serving the state, only however, for the fact that after the fine imposed by the recorder a brother or brother-in-law of Jeff’s came to the front liquidated the bill and Jeff walked out. He is still walking so far as the state of Texas is concerned, and maybe will have a good deal of fun before he comes back to don the striped pantaloons. He was heard of in Georgetown and Round Rock a couple of days ago, but where he is now one of the efficient officers in the state service will have to find out.

BROKE OUT.

Some men in this world of ours never know when they have a good thing. Yesterday morning, between the hours of 3 and 6 o’clock, six of the comfortable boarders in the calaboose concluded to change quarters, and by dextrous use of appliances at hand “froze off” the bars that hold the back part of the door of the building. They went out in the cold, cold world, just as if calabooses were not warm and city grub was not good enough. The way it was done was simple, and its simplicity itself will be sufficient to prevent any future breaks of the kind. The fact of the matter is, that the box on the hill is but a shell, and the cheapest thing the city could do would be to build a new city prison, or else hire a place where the subjects of the recorder can be kept.

17 JAN 1886. Austin Daily Statesman.

AN OLD OFFENDER. JEFF CAIN GIVES THE POLICE A LIVELY RACE AND STRUGGLE.

The city police find it necessary to keep an eye on Jeff at all seasons. He is likely at any time to engage in an escape that will require immediate and pressing attention at their hands. This was the case last night. Jeff had visited his best girl, who is a sojourner at a den known as Mahogany Hall, and as usual had adorned the gentle creature with shady eyes and other evidences of his tenderness, which, coming to the knowledge of Officers Wilson and Henderson, they sought an interview with Jeff, and were about to approach him at Metz’ saloon, where he was airing his elegance and good clothes, for, be it known, Jeff is something of a dude, and is always well dressed, but upon catching a glimpse of the guardians and suspecting their design, he offered a race and took the best start. He reached Millet’s lumber yard, and, with the intention of secreting himself from his pursuers, he threw himself into a puddle of muddy slush, which he mistook in the darkness for a dry spot of earth, and crawled beneath a pile of lumber. Jeff’s good clothes were ruined and he was disfigured like an African, when the officers prevailed upon him to disclose himself. He seemed tame enough for a time, and accompanied the officers quietly as far on the way to the calaboose as the post office, when he again broke away for a race, but was quickly overhauled and landed where he passes most of his time, in a cell.

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