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| Second Mississippi Fugitive Captured |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/26/2001 |
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The second of two men who escaped from the Perry County Jail was captured early Monday. Acting on a tip, authorities arrested Christopher Scott Thomas, a murder suspect, while he was using a telephone outside a Wal-Mart in Meridian, Perry County Sheriff Carlos Herring said. Thomas' cellmate, Kenneth Moody, a convicted murderer awaiting trial in another case, was recaptured last Wednesday, 11 miles from the jail. Moody, 26, and Thomas, 33, escaped Sept. 15, just two days before Moody was to stand trial. They apparently cut their way into an air conditioning vent in the jail and gained access to the roof. Thomas was captured without incident at 3:15 a.m., about three hours after authorities got a tip on his whereabouts, Herring said. Thomas, who was awaiting trial in the death of his uncle, had spent most of his 10 days on the run camped in woods in Lamar County, about 30 miles from the jail, the sheriff said. He then jumped a coal train and traveled about 80 miles to Meridian, he said. |
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