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  1. Escaped Prisoner
    date July 5, 1859 to July 23, 1859map WILLIAMSON, Tennesseetags Crime/Violence, Law

    J. Bell Reddick fled from the Nashville Jail July 7, 1859. The bowlegged white man shot Charles H. Conger just two days previous. Tennessee officials convicted him of malicious shooting and put him in prison. Nobody knew how he escaped. Even as of July 23, almost three weeks after his getaway, no one could find Reddick. The warden of the jail posted in the Nashville Union a 50 Reward to anyone who...