Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-09-30
From the Boston Post.
ESCAPE OF PRISONERS.

Seven desperate fellows, including the con-
vict-atteDdant, escaped from the State Prison
hospital, at between IL and O'clock on Sat
urday night. The leader Of this daring
and successful enterprise was Jacob II. Ed.
wards. man OF great intelligence sentenced
for life, for counterfeting. He was an Off
Ger in the Customs in Vermont, during the
administration of Mr. Adams He is a very
aspiring man, and it has been ascertaned,
since the evacuation Of the hospital, that he
has occasionally sounded his brethren in
captivity upon the Feasibility Of emigrating
to Teras! He was acting apothecary to the
hospital post of leisure, dignity and con-
idence, which he turned to advantage by
employing the opportunities it afforded him,
in maturing arrangements for couple
main, when the proper moment should ar
rive. On Friday evening his energetic spir-
il was reinforced by the arrival in the hos
pital of Jordan-a hairbrained fellow, but
fearless and keen for IN adventure, and
"As one brave hero but fans anoher's hame,''
the escape was decided for the next night
This old prison is used as the hospital and
it is the weakest point in the works, and
there are no sentinels posted on the walls at
night.
Edwards had provided himself with
key which fitted the paddock on the outside
of the iron grated door. which opened at the
head OF the steps. A large aperture was
made, by saving in the door that communi
cated from the hospital to the arch, which
len nothing TO be done but to shove a slender
arm through the bars OF the outer door, in
sert the well-fiuing key in the paddock, open
the door, descend the steps, traverse down
the yard, make an inclined plane of long
plank, scale the wall, creep along by the
picket and drop into the first dry spot they
could find. All which was executed with
out the least noise, though there were two
large dogs in the yard as the prisoners had
a bag oil provisions with them it is probable
that they silenced their growlings by feed.
ing them. The night was very dark, and
II is doubtful whether their descent from the
steps could have been seen from the win
dows Of the main-guard room, even il the
attention Of the guard had been directed to.
wards them. Or they might have awaited
themselves OF the precise moment Of IL
o'clock when il was well known that The
guard on duty went up stairs to summon
the relief-guard to his post. They dropped
a bag of provisions. and three pistols which
they took from the desk of the officer OF their
ward-one was loaded
The alarm was given about twelve o'clock
by sick prisoner. who needed assistance
from Edwards, and after knocking and call
ing some time in vain, he rang the hospital
bell, and brought up the guard and meas
ures were Immediately taken by the Warden,
Mr.. Lincoln. 10 employ the police to recap
iure the fugtives -Four OF them. Edwards,
Jordon. Covert and Willard, were in for life
Tho latter commenced his studies in prison
discipline down at the Castle. and had been
In confinement thirty-one years MIR. Lin
coin has frequently notified the Legislature
OF the insecurity Of the old building.
AWFUL DEPRAvITY.--Yesterday morn
ing ragged filthy looking female, (whose
name we have not yet ascertained) was OBJ
served Keeling through the streets, in a
6eastly state of intoxication, having two chill.
dren with her, one walking by her side, an.
parently between six and seven wears oil
age and the other, an infant eight or nine
months old, IN her arms. Plying the I'M
happy condition Of the children, the profit |
gate and drunken wretch was stopped by |
some persons who observed her situation. |
when the shocking discovery was made tina,
ne child which she had been tossing about
recklessly in her arms was dead, and She
he unnatural and inhuman mo,her-oui,e
unconscious of the awful fact Under these
circumstances. she was taken to the Police |
onlce' but so completely supplied was she
win the potations in which she had in
iulged, that she was incapable of answering
my questions put to her by the magistrates
ma, IN consequence, she was committed 10
orideweli until the fumes Of the liquor had
n some measure, by the peculiar process
'dopied on such occasions at that establish.
nent, been worked of. In the mean time.
he Coroner would be required to summon
IN inquest in the case, to ascertain whether
my violence had been used to effect the
Ieath Of the lutte innocent. To add to The
horror Of the affair. it was found on ones.
loning the living child, that it had been
'lIed with intoxicating draughts so as to be
ompletely senseless and bewldered
more distressing and revolving instance of
emale depravity than this, has not, we ven.
ure 10 say, been recorded in the annals of
rune, either in this or any other country
v Y Transcript
~ Y Bo,oerg Theatre Burnt-A little
Iiier hive o'clock this morning. the Bowery
Iheatre was observed to be on fire, which Is
imposed to have caught from the waddinp
some guns which had been fred in the
erIormances OF the previous evening. II
ad gained an uncomfortable headwav he.