The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-04 00:00:00

DARING ESCAPE PROM THE HULL GAOL.

A moat daring escape was made from the Hull
Borough Gaol yesterday morning by a notorious offender
named Thos. Foster, who was justoomplerting aterm of three
months' imprisonment at the gaol for a violent assault upon
Detective Chapman, when taking him into custody for
breaking into the slaughter-house of Sir. Samuel Robinson,
butcher Withum, Hull, and stealing therefrom two legs of
pot*. He was committed by the stipendiary magistrate to
the sessions on the charge of felony and assault ; for the
latter, as we have said, being sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, and having been four times previously con-
victed of felonies, be was sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude for breaking into the slaughter-house and stealing
the pork.
The way he managed to escape exhibits considerable
cunning and premeditation. He was loaded in a room on
the third story of the Model Prison, the base of his room
being about 25 feet hem the ground, the windows being
protected by iron ban, about 10 inch thick ; and he wag
employed in making cocoa fibre mats. It would seem
that be had succeeded in platting a rope of the fibre of
which the mats are made, about 51 feet long, and between
two and three inches thick. With two old nails and •
piece of iron he bad by some ingenuity made a kind of
drag, similar to a butcher's hook, and this he fastened in
the centre of the rope, which was sufficiently long when
doubled for him to reach the ground from his cell. In
order to get out of his cell he had, however, to remove one
of the iron bars, which by some means or other he managed
to do, by cutting one of the bars at the bottom
clean through with • knife, the manner in which
be had possessed himself of which cannot be sur-
mised. The bar being me, through at the bottom, and
fitting into the otenework at the top of the window
by working it about he unlodged it, and egress from his
cell was then awe. Placing the rope around one of the
bars outside the window he slid down it, and then with-
drew the rope from the bar, leaving his clogs behind him.
He then noiselessly wended his way to the west side of the
building which be seems to have fancied the most suitable
for his purpose, as the street at the side into which he
would alight is only a short one, and ho would be less likely
to be seen than by getting over the wall into Kingston-
street, which is a long street, where he might have been
seen by parties at a great distance off. Having got to the
west side of the yard, an obstruction to his easy progress,
in the shape of • boundary wall about 25 feet high, pre-
sented itself. Getting on to a cool hems about four feet
from the ground, he doubled his rope, the hook before-
mentioned being in the centre, and threw it over the
top of the wall, working it about until the drag had got
fad underneath the stone at the top of the wall, which
projects over two or three inches from the bricks. He
then drew himself up the top, made the drop secure in
the inside of the wall, and then slid down outside the
boundary wall, pulling the rope after him. Divesting
himself of his prison dress, he then got over another wall
about ten feet high, and alighted in Manor-street, being
once more at liberty, having nothing whatever on, how-
ever, but his shirt, drawers, and stockings.

Three English pickpockets have been arrested in
Paris whose names are not given. What strikes the police
with most astonishment is the regularity with which the
fellow. kept their accounts. Papers have been found upon
them purporting to be duo acknowledgments of remittances.
and of investments in public securities, worthy, as the say-
ing is, of a better cause. They are quite an example to
reckless French practitioners in the same line.
A WESTERN TORNADO.—Thu southern portion of
Ohio was on Monday the scene of are of those terrine NM-
suer tondos. so peculiar to the west, and which, in sudden-
nese and violence, cannot, perhaps, be exceeded in any
portion of the world. Cincinnati appears to have been the
victim of its greatest fury, as will he seen from our tele-
graphic despatch to-day. Rising in a gathering cloud in the
northwest, of that singular and threatening density which
always presages a western tornado, the shoutswept over the
city, unroofing nearly every public building, carrying away
steeples, and damaging more or loss every house in the city.
On the roads whole forest. of trees wore torn up; steamers
were (aipeirsxl on the river, and even the locomotive and
passenger ears on one railroad. at the Kentucky side
were blown clear off the track. The damage done
to buildings amounts to half a million of dollars.
The tornado seems to have extended seven miles to
the northwest of the city, and its effects extend as far east
as the town of Chillicothe, swooping away trees by the
thousand, strewing thorn over the railroad, suit demolishing
houses, railroad depots and factories in its course. It is
rarely that tornados so violent as this occur in the West at
so early a period of the summer. They generally visit that
region about the heated term of July and August ; and,
though frequent, we hardly remember any previous storm
to have carried so mach destruction along with it.—Nee
York Herold, May 23.
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL TOR DISEASPN OF THE
CRTAT, VICTORIA-PARC—The number of patients relieved
at this institution during the last week was 909, of which
157 were new cases.