Tobe Warlick, 1896
Cherokee Herald (Cherokee Co. NC) Tuesday, June 23, 1896:
About That Jail Delivery---On last Tuesday morning, when Sheriff Davidson went to feed his prisoners, three of them were missing, and an investigation revealed the fact they had escaped by cutting through a window.
The prisoners were C.C. Mull, whose time would have been out in a week, Charles Nichols and a little boy named Richard Pickelsimer, all United States prisoners, and charged with handling whiskey. These prisoners, together with Jack Smith and Tobe Warlick, who made no attempt to escape, were left over night in the corridor that runs around the steel cages. Nichols, who was sick, was ordered the run of the corridor by Dr. J.F. Abernathy, the county physician, and the others were turned out into the corridor to get fresh air and take some exercise, simply because our efficient Sheriff is a humane officer and because the prisoners were serving short sentences and their crimes but minor ones."