h/o Rosie
Polk Newspaper article August 1942:
Seven prisoners sawed and dug their way out of jail in Benton early last Sunday morning, and one of them, Fred Hill, met his death an hour or so later; when he is alleged to have either fell or jumped from the L&N railroad trestle just north of the bridge across the Hiwassee River.
According to a statement of Ransom Price, a L&N guard, he was in the guard house when he heard someone pass going in the direction of the bridge, and called to him to halt. But in place of halting, he started to run. Watson Gregory, a guard on the north end of the bridge, said he heard Price call to the man to halt, and that he flashed his flashlight and when he did so, the man turned back and, as he thought, fell down between the rails; that he went up to where he had fallen, and he wasn't on the track. Said he heard groans down at the bottom of the trestle some seventy feet from the top, and that he and Price went down to where the man was. "When we got to him he only breathed a few times and was dead." Gregory is quoted as saying.
Hill lived at Greasy Creek, and is survived by his wife (Rosie) and three children, according to a statement of the undertaker. Funeral services were held at the Grassy Creek Church near Copperhill and burial was in the church cemetery.
Hill was being held in jail on the felonious assault charge, and was in the back cell in which nine other prisoners were also confined.
Note: Hill is in an unmarked grave.
Provided by Marian Bailey Presswood
Polk Newspaper article August 1942:
Seven prisoners sawed and dug their way out of jail in Benton early last Sunday morning, and one of them, Fred Hill, met his death an hour or so later; when he is alleged to have either fell or jumped from the L&N railroad trestle just north of the bridge across the Hiwassee River.
According to a statement of Ransom Price, a L&N guard, he was in the guard house when he heard someone pass going in the direction of the bridge, and called to him to halt. But in place of halting, he started to run. Watson Gregory, a guard on the north end of the bridge, said he heard Price call to the man to halt, and that he flashed his flashlight and when he did so, the man turned back and, as he thought, fell down between the rails; that he went up to where he had fallen, and he wasn't on the track. Said he heard groans down at the bottom of the trestle some seventy feet from the top, and that he and Price went down to where the man was. "When we got to him he only breathed a few times and was dead." Gregory is quoted as saying.
Hill lived at Greasy Creek, and is survived by his wife (Rosie) and three children, according to a statement of the undertaker. Funeral services were held at the Grassy Creek Church near Copperhill and burial was in the church cemetery.
Hill was being held in jail on the felonious assault charge, and was in the back cell in which nine other prisoners were also confined.
Note: Hill is in an unmarked grave.
Provided by Marian Bailey Presswood
h/o Rosie
Polk Newspaper article August 1942:
Seven prisoners sawed and dug their way out of jail in Benton early last Sunday morning, and one of them, Fred Hill, met his death an hour or so later; when he is alleged to have either fell or jumped from the L&N railroad trestle just north of the bridge across the Hiwassee River.
According to a statement of Ransom Price, a L&N guard, he was in the guard house when he heard someone pass going in the direction of the bridge, and called to him to halt. But in place of halting, he started to run. Watson Gregory, a guard on the north end of the bridge, said he heard Price call to the man to halt, and that he flashed his flashlight and when he did so, the man turned back and, as he thought, fell down between the rails; that he went up to where he had fallen, and he wasn't on the track. Said he heard groans down at the bottom of the trestle some seventy feet from the top, and that he and Price went down to where the man was. "When we got to him he only breathed a few times and was dead." Gregory is quoted as saying.
Hill lived at Greasy Creek, and is survived by his wife (Rosie) and three children, according to a statement of the undertaker. Funeral services were held at the Grassy Creek Church near Copperhill and burial was in the church cemetery.
Hill was being held in jail on the felonious assault charge, and was in the back cell in which nine other prisoners were also confined.
Note: Hill is in an unmarked grave.
Provided by Marian Bailey Presswood
Polk Newspaper article August 1942:
Seven prisoners sawed and dug their way out of jail in Benton early last Sunday morning, and one of them, Fred Hill, met his death an hour or so later; when he is alleged to have either fell or jumped from the L&N railroad trestle just north of the bridge across the Hiwassee River.
According to a statement of Ransom Price, a L&N guard, he was in the guard house when he heard someone pass going in the direction of the bridge, and called to him to halt. But in place of halting, he started to run. Watson Gregory, a guard on the north end of the bridge, said he heard Price call to the man to halt, and that he flashed his flashlight and when he did so, the man turned back and, as he thought, fell down between the rails; that he went up to where he had fallen, and he wasn't on the track. Said he heard groans down at the bottom of the trestle some seventy feet from the top, and that he and Price went down to where the man was. "When we got to him he only breathed a few times and was dead." Gregory is quoted as saying.
Hill lived at Greasy Creek, and is survived by his wife (Rosie) and three children, according to a statement of the undertaker. Funeral services were held at the Grassy Creek Church near Copperhill and burial was in the church cemetery.
Hill was being held in jail on the felonious assault charge, and was in the back cell in which nine other prisoners were also confined.
Note: Hill is in an unmarked grave.
Provided by Marian Bailey Presswood
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