The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-10
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT
A Touch SUBJECr FOR UNCLE SAM-A

A Touch SUBJKCr FOR UNCLE SAM
DRAFTED MAN TWICE JUMPS FROM TmRI
Story WINDOW, AND TRIES TO EscAPE.-Pat
rick Clemens was one of the principal perform
srs iu wild riot some years ago in Minneapo
lis occasioned by gross insult to Irelandi
patron saint on st. Patrick's day. A year age
he was said by his friends to have been for
long time showing signs of mental alteration
and occasionally breaking out in ungovernablt
| fits of craziness he was for three weeks an in
mate of St. Joseph Hospital in this city, and
was then undoubtedly crazy. Unfortunately
for Uncle Sam, this man Clemens was drawn
for soldier, from Wright county, in the late
draft.
Monday he came before the Board of En-
rollment fresh from a dispensation of justice
at the City Court, where Clemens had been
fined for an assault upon E. L. Larpenteur,
which assault grew out of Clemens having
mounted Larpenteur's horse, and besides made
himself obnoxious by wild actions and talk.
DR.. Stewart saw the man Clemens while he
was in custody. and came to the conclusion
that he was trying to act like crazy man, and
knew well enough what he was about.
After Clemens had passed an examination
before the Board of Enrolment, he was sent
to the rendezvous or quarters for drafted men
on Eagle st. Here his actions were such as to
make the guard believe him to be shamming
crazy in the hope of being discharged, and he
was pretty closely watched. After supper, he
was sent into the third story, where the men
sleep. Here he was visited by some of his ac-
quaintances. Among the rest, a woman visited
him and shortly after she had gone away he
threw his clothes out of the window, and then
attempted to leap out after them, but was pre-
vented. His clothes were found piled up to.
gether on the sidewalk, though it was thought
he had thrown out but one article at a time.
Some hours after he made rush for the window
and jumped out. The distance to the sidewalk is
about twenty-four feet. He struck on some
loose boards covering an entrance to the cellar,
and broke through. 1t was afterwards fonnd
that he was but a little bruised by the fall, and
that he almost instantly jumped up and ran
through the cellar to get out at the rear. A
woman in the kitchen saw him fall and called
to the sergeant of the guard when Clemens
started for the rear of the cellar The sergeant
ran around and headed him, when he made
quickly for the opening at the front The wo-
man called to the sergeant again, whan Gle
mems, stopping a moment to damn the wo-
man and threaten to kill her, rushed out of
the cellar by the back door and started for
st. Anthony Hill, chased by Sergeant Miller
and privates Backoff and Fair
Backoff got close to the runaway on the hill,
and after calling upon him repeatedly to halt,
finally used his bayonet and pricked Clemens
two or three times in the back, whereupon he
half stopped and was quickly captured.
After they had got Clemens back to the quar-
tiers and again in the third story, the Sergeant
had him tied, hands and feet, and placed
guard over him. Pat sent the guard down
stairs for glass of water. During the guards
brief absence, he managed to get his legs loose
and, with his hands yet tied behind his back,
made another leap from the window, this time
striking upon his breast and face upon the side
walk and being picked up insensible, with
blood pouring from his mouth and nose. He
Wdo aSolu SaiEACO up otauo Jill, dlttI uc udu
been restored, his bands and feet were securely
chained.
Unless be is bruised or hurt internally, Glenn
ems is likely to recover after a week or two
But it may take two or three days to show
whether he is hurt internally or not. His body
and head are pretty we'll covered with contu-
sions and wounds, and he has lost considera-
BILE blood. A surgeon was promptly called to
attend to him, and he receives good care from
the drafted men and the guards
He appeared yesterday to be entirely free
from any eraziness, and it is the opinion of
those who have watched him since Monday
that, though he may have sometime been era
zy, this time he was only shamming, and that
his jumping out of the window, with more
chance Of being killed by the fall than of being
able to get away, was simply the desperate at
tempt of an ignorant half-savage to redeem his
mistake in supposing that he could deceive the
officers of the government into relieving him
| from service.
THE MAHoNEY CHILD On inquiry con-
corning the singular narrative headed Mother
Found, which we copied from the Stats Zei-
tang of Saturday, we learn that the facts are as
| follows:
In September last Revs. L. Caillet and John
ireland were called to visit sick woman at