Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-15

GREAT EXPLOIT IN THE CITY
te PRISON.
Two Of the Prisoners Escape.
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CURHOUs DETAILS, &c., &C.

Between eight and twelve o'clock on Sat
urday night, there was quite an exploit
contrived, and in part successfully carried
out at the City prison. According to the
story Of prisoner named Goble, confined
for forging an order on Marcus Childs, he
(Goble) was himself the originator Of the
exploit, or was the first to put it in opera
tion. He began by making loop or moose
at the end Of string, and throwing it over
the poker at the stove OIL the outside Of his
cell. By this means he drew the poker into
his cell. With this instrument he contrived
to wrench off the iron legs of his sleeping
bench or bunk. One OF these iron legs or
bars about twenty inches in length, he
threw over, or got into cell opposite,
where prisoner, whose name we have not
been able to obtain, was confined for steal
ing coat from the United States Hotel
and whom, for the sake. of distinction, we
win call coat thief. sr ~
With the instrument furnished by Goble,
the coat thief pried off hinge of his cell
door, bending it outward, and then bent
downward the upper part OF the door
crawling out Of the aperture thus made
above. He then went to the front part of
the prison where the keys Of the cell were
kept. He unlocked the cell of Richard
Buckley, imprisoned for stabbing or cut
ting William Kinney few nights ago.
Buckley came. out of his cell. The cell
door of Goble was also unlocked, but for
some reason or other, he did not at that
time attempt to escape with the other two.
He says he was asleep at the time they un-
locked his door; but If the first part of his
story is true, that he commenced these ope-
ratlons, this tale about his being asleep
when his cell door was unlocked, does not
seem probable. Be this as 1t may, he did
not attempt to escape with Buckley and
the coat thief.
These two odesperadoes concealed them
selves behind the cells near the entrance
door of the prison, evidently in expecta-
tion that some official would have occasion,
in the course of the night, to open the door,
when they could rush past him, and effect
their escape. And Dit a..SS happen. Police
man Wolford CAME in with a prisoner
whom he had arrested for drunkenness,
and as he was taking his charge to cell,
Buckley and the coat thief leaped from
their place of coneealment rushed out of
the door, and made good their escape. OFF,
GER Woltord csughta glimpse of them as
they went out, and sounded an alarm, but |
the birds had flown, no one knew whittier.
Marshal Stephens having been apprised |
Of what had taken place, entered the prison |
shortly afterward, and found Goble, who,
t seems, had found out that his cell was
and had come out of 1t, poking |
Iboutthe prison as though trying to find
one way of escape. The Marshal laid hold |
# him, and told him to tell all about the
transaction, or he might rue the conse-
Iuenees. He then made the statements we
ave referred to. He will probably this
morning, or soon, have hearing before the
fayor in reference to his share in this
rison exploit. Some four pieces of iron
ars were found about the prison, and one
arge one outside, which Buckley and the
ost thief had probably taken out with
hem for defense, in case an attempt should
9 made to recapture them.
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