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A rope was brought; Mr. Thomas was requested to say his last words.
By good management, however, he got near the door, and ejaculating a prayer of “legs do your duty,” he broke for the prairie, fifty or more excited men in pursuit.
Down the ravine, over the knolls, through sloughs, toward the banks of the Cedar, but Thomas beat them all, and as his pursuers neared the river-banks they heard something go “ker chug” into the water with a grunt like a very large bull-frog when scared off a log. Thomas had escaped, and put the river between himself and danger.--Linn County Register, July 25.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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