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before he was twenty-three years old. It The escape, including as it did the rescue was at that age he planned and carried into of Gen. Morgan, so worshiped by his men execution his daring scheme for the escape and so dreaded by his enemies, excited the of his leader, Gen. John H. Morgan, and greatest sensation at the time. For this and others, including himself, from the peniten other gallant exploits, Hiñes was made a tiary at Columbus, Ohio, where they were all Captain. confined as prisoners of war. The details of After the war Captain Hiñes returned to the ingenious plan and the boldness of its Bowling Green, Kentucky, and took up the execution have excited the widest admiration practice of law. He was elected Judge of for the master mind that made possible the Warren County Court,

to attend but hetoresigned his pri its success. vate practice. In Young Hiñes had not been long incar 1878, when Chief cerated in the prison Justice Lindsay's before he observed term of office ex pired, a convention the freedom of the cells from dampness, of the Democratic and rightly judged party was called to that there must be nominate his suc an air chamber be cessor. There were neath them commu two leading candi nicating with the dates before the con vention, neither of outer world. His whom could control reading of Victor Hugo's book, "Les it. Capt. Hiñes had Miserables," sug not been a candi gested this to him date, but in the en as a means of escape. suing deadlock he He made known his was proposed as a plan to his compan compromise candi date, and such was ions and all set to his personal popu work as secretly as larity that he was possible to cut THOMAS H. HIÑES. nominated and elect through the floor to vote. He at once entered ed by upon a very the duties large the supposed air chamber. It was finally reached and plans of his position and soon fully realized all the for escape agreed upon. A dark, rainy night was selected, and predictions of his friends. As was expected, when the prisoners finally emerged from the he proved himself a learned and conscientious building they found themselves still within judge, whose native ability and great force the prison enclosure and almost in reach of character marked his entire judicial of armed guards with vicious watch-dogs. career. Only the ravages of ill health prevented Stealthily and safely they scaled the outer wall by means which Hines's ingenuity had him from retaining the office indefinitely and provided, and soon they had eluded the making for himself a record equal to any of vigilance of the officers and were safe within his predecessors. From August 1884 to August 1886, he Confederate lines.