Woods was slipped into a carriage and taken to Wichita to prevent another ordeal.Īp– James Burton alias Harry Milton, who with James (Jimmie) Harmon escaped from the Woodson County jail at Yates Center early in March where they were held awaiting sentence on the charge of robbing the State Exchange Bank, is back in the Yates Center jail. The mob disapated around two in the morning and J.M. But the sheriff knew his business and knew that a crisis was to be met. Toward night farmers began arriving from the country in force and by 9 o’clock the Yates Center jail was confronted by a mob of a few hundred men. Farmers and townspeople stood upon the street corners. Lind had been captured by Sheriff Patterson yesterday morning. The word spread all day yesterday that the man who had attacked Mrs. At an early hour this morning the mob saw that the leaders would not take the jail in face of the sheriff’s unyielding opposition and the angry men began leaving for their homes. The members of the mob knew that it meant almost certain death to some of them if the attempt should be carried out. Three attempts to take the jail were made by the mob of a few hundred men, but each time the nerve of the leaders failed before the battering rams could be applied to the door of the jail. Woods, an African American man who attacked Mrs J.C. – A determined sheriff with forty deputies prevented the lynching last night of J.M. The jail is constructed out of sandstone, and the prisoners had no trouble in getting out. Although the jail was thought to be indestructible the jail had its fair share of breakout stories, here are a few:Īug– Three prisoners dug out of the Yates Center jail a week ago. Even after being in violation of human/prisoner’s rights and determined to be unfit for habitation four years earlier. Jails of this size and construction were typically abandoned arund the 1920s-1940s but this one was used up until 1967. The jail was the centerpoint for Woodson County criminals terrorizing the small towns nearby. Constructed by large sandstone blocks in 1898 it was thought to be indestructible and inescapable. From the outside you would never guess that this building used to be the Yates Center Jail let alone one that was over a hundred years old. Tucked away in Yates Center sits a small building, constructed of sandstone with boarded up windows.
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