Two men who escaped last week from a Columbia prison were arrested Monday at a Newberry hospital after one of them was treated for a painful kidney stone attack, authorities said.

Shane Adams, 24, and Christopher Pawloski, 27, were taken into custody at Newberry County Memorial Hospital about 5:45 a.m., after a deputy there recognized them, said sheriff’s spokesman Todd Johnson.

The deputy remembered that a police bulletin said Adams had a “No Fear” tattoo on his upper right arm, the spokesman said.

The escapees from Manning Correctional Institution almost slipped by, Johnson said, because they had consistently given fake names and Social Security numbers when other deputies brought them in hours earlier for treatment as transients.

The hospital routinely treats transients who cannot afford to pay, then calls deputies to take them to the county line, he said.

Adams, who had the kidney stones, had told deputies and hospital workers he was Brad Jackson. Pawloski had said he was Alan Williams.

“They had rehearsed it,” Johnson said, explaining that the deputies who took them to the hospital had questioned them separately and cross-checked their answers.

Those officers found them about 1:05 a.m. at a bridge over the Broad River on S.C. 213, near the Peak community.

Passersby had called 911, reporting two suspicious men on the bridge, which is a primary connector between Newberry and Fairfield counties, Johnson said.

The men told those deputies they had been camping in the Broad River basin, which is common in that area, the spokesman said.

They were in work-style jumpsuits, had cuts and scratches, and were hungry.

They later told deputies they had followed the river basin without a clear destination, and blamed each other for instigating the breakout, Johnson said.

During the hospital stay, they gobbled down hospital meals. “Both of them said they were tired and ready to go back,” Johnson said.

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