The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

could in a

Caerell, air —catching • -glimpse
of him inform-4 t,e police, and they were immedi-
ately In pursuL, but some time afterward, returned
without -having seen the fugitive, who doubtless,
having gained the river, would follow its coarse, and
most probably get 'hoard serper vessel, and thus find
his way to Goole or Hull. In the meantime the sell
in which the prisoner bad been confined was examined,
and it was found that he had in the first instance
atttmpted to escape up the chimney, and had evidently
ascended a considerable way, when be had come in
COD tack with the iron eross-bars, which had effectually
obstructed his further progress In that direction. He
Mal seems to have desmaded bringing down large
quentitiee of soot with him, which was found strewn
all over the floor, and then maddened, perhaps, by
tho failure of bit first attempt, he seised one of the
fornis with which the apartment is provided, sad,
making uso of it as a battering ram, be applied it
vigorously to the small door whish is hi IMO LW
large one for the purpose of supplying peovisions
and other neossealies. One or two blows tippers
to have been sufficient to burst the smaller
door from its sneak, and to throw it open—Um
enabling the prisoner to get his arms through and puff
tile catch of the largo door from of the staple. 'The
prisoner then had overcome his first dike'', and
obtained • free access to the yard. A yet more
formidable obstacle, however, then presented itself, but
"nemssity is the mother of invention," and the fellow's
ingenuity seems at once to have saggeoled a somewhat
novel mode of scaling the wells of the prime. He
got one of those heavy backed forms and reared it sod
ways up; he got to the top of it, and then drew'
ordinary form after ' s'
him, which be reared
on the top of it, and than by that num
scrambling higher and higher he tsusesodied in
catching hold • zinc water-spout. sad by its aid gained
the roof. In traversing the roof to get to the other aide
of the gaol ho was noticed by those outside, but as we
have said, before any means of recapture meld be
adopted, the "prison bird" had flown, and has noising*
been beard of. Let us hops he has been "aged* long
enough to teach him to take better cars of lelmnalf in
future.—Doncasfer Gazette.
TeX Mere STARVED TO DIATH IN WKS A ROTKI
MICOI.NIL—LOIIII Or A PETERIIIAD WHALIR.-1114/
whaler Alert arrived at Peterhead on Tuesday, from
Cumberland Straits, where she was frozen in the whole
of last winter, the crew having suffered great privations,
and onelialf of them ded from cold and scurvy. The
Alert left Peterhead last summer, not intending to
winter in the north; but, alter several ansaimeastal
attempts to get out of the gulf, was obliged to put back
and bear up for Hitterton Island. Here the sufferinp
cd the crew during a long Arctic winter were sash as
cannot be described. Unexpectedly detained in
that dark and desolate region, and unprovided with
the oonsforts necessary for subsistence is the
Intense frost which prevailed, one after another
of the crew succumbed to the sombined effects; of cold
and scurvy, until the half of the crew (ten) were deal,
leaving the other ten much enfeebled by disease. The
horrors of such • winter may be conceived, as well as
the emotion with which the survivors would bail Use
appearance of this year's whips. Quite unable to bring
the voted home themselves the captain of the Alibi and
Arctic, of Aberdeen, generously sent two boatel' crows
on band of the Alert to assist the remainder of her
crew, and she arrived, as we have stated, at Peterhead
on Tuesday, where her arrival with such melancholy
news, has overspread the town with the deepest rioom,
all the crew belonging to that port. The Alert binge
some sixty tons of oil, and reports that the American
vessels which wintered out bad met with poor messes.
Up to the middle of Aegust no whales bad been caught
in that quarter. The Union of Peterhead, is reported
to have sunk in a harbour, but no details are given.--
Dundee Adrertioer.