Here are the top headlines from May 18 editions of The Telegraph over the years:
Alton Police Chief Chris Sullivan said officials at the City Jail would take unspecified steps to prevent future escapes after an inmate cut a hole in the ceiling of his cell, used a makeshift rope he had fashioned from strips of blankets to shimmy down and fled the facility. Quantay R. Adams, 30, escaped May 2, 2006, but was captured the next day at a motel in Wentzville, Missouri.
A Madison County grand jury declined to indict two adult white males accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Black girl from Bethalto. State’s Attorney Bill Haine said the jurors heard six hours of conflicting testimony from 11 witnesses, but there was no physical evidence, and “the case was fraught with problems from the beginning.”
The Telegraph did not publish that day, a Saturday.
The Roxana High School baseball team dropped a 6-1 decision to O’Fallon in the Edwardsville Regional Tournament on the campus of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. It marked the third time the Shells had lost that season to O’Fallon, which improved its record to 23-2 with the victory.
The superintendent of the Madison County Sanitarium reported a tuberculin testing survey of the county’s high schools and junior high buildings, including five in Alton, was completed with gratifying results. Alton Central Junior High had 100% participation among students and employees in the program, the only school in the county to do so.
Mrs. George M. Lewis of Alton reported that she had received, by mail from Egypt, some interesting antiquities that she had bought during her visit to that country, including an image of King Tut, said to have been taken from his tomb. The article said the relics were admitted free to the United States because they were of such great age.
