Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1868-03-13
Jail Delivery.

ceny and arson John A Bragdon. and Mi
ehssi Lssis. Ipdiaa. charged ~iih larceny,
There Was snotAer inmate OF thc Jail. named
Beaj. N. Dovnes. OF Porter. Charged With
larceny ofs,eigb robe. .whorefused 20 take
aavan age OF the release rendered him by
the others. Coolbroth. who vas undoub,ed.
~ the prime mover. WAS in = cell with the
Imdian--sbe other two in another cell On
the same floor. The Jsi has but two cells
belov. there being . four TOO, passage way
between them, and . double oak door lead.
iug INTO tho yrrd, on level With the ground
Thss ostcr door Was fastened With heavy
lock. The cell doors we're usads TO hasten
With two iron bars through staples. by pad.
locks. There sre holes drilled through
these doors. one sndcr the upper bolt. not
more than Lilo oi en- iach in diameter. thro'
which x is sssd. . ~re Vas pat. which en-
abied them to remove the paddock. force IL
eG. shove the bolt back from the msr,ice,
IN the solid s,sae wall. and open the door
The lower bolt Vas near the bottom OF the
door. the upper one about hall way up -
How it 10 possible. With wire TO accom-
plisb such feat with the upper bolt. is
beyosd our comprehension. and As to the
lower bar. ir looks hike an impossibil;ty to
10 &C. The lower bolt could not have been
IN Its place. and there. could not have been
padlockS. locked. on esther bolt. even IL The
upper bolt was in ~ place. Alter Cool.
broth and the Indian go, oui. tbev soon re.
Leased the innates OF the other cell. They
were then IN the passage. secured only by
The double oak door. Downcs says they
worked = couple OF hours on the lock, in
~ain. and then built up ere nearly under
Abe door. which soon blaz-d snartiy and
almost stihed them With smoke As soon
As IL had burned enough to Ell bic them 10
kick hole through. they put on, the FIRE.
and the three crawic,l out The aper,ure
made was not over 8 by 10 inches though
they gained little space by the door mo-,
reaching entirely to to the bottom OF the
floor. The three. on gaming the yard. soon
scaled the fence. and LETT. Downs shouted
an alarm. bu, filling to raise an, one crep,
-
Who procured help and wen, IN pursuit
This was between 3 aud 4 O'Clock MONDAY
morning.
Had there been an outside door OF non,
they would have been io,gsd in their efforts
to escape.
Since writing the above. officer c. NJ
Wormell has re-capturcd Cooibroth and
Bragdon. and rctsrn-d them to their old
quarters. They were taken about too O..
clock Wednesday morning, in The Foster
School House. an Ne~ry. Mr. worm-ll
had got on their rack during the evening
lie had POSTED mcn on tbe Grand Trunk
.Raiirosi. and notified people on the roads
to the Lakes. Mr. - T.. Frost oil Newry.
met the men on the road. and sen, word to
Mr. Wormeli, and the two followed them all
they were found. Their story is. thai after
leaving tbe jail they wen; to within a mile
anil a.hsif OF West Paris that morning. and
stopped IN the woods 4 little way from the
railroad track that day. the three rrrna in
ing together. The Indian proposed break.
ing into Judkins' eoufec, ionary store a,
West. Paris thar nigh 10 get some cracker,
and food to subsist on. bot the others would
not consent TO ri-kiog so much. Fearing
to pass the station together Monday nich,,
they agreed tina. the Indian should go ahead
and stop quarter of male or so beyond
and wait for them to come up. A, they
approached the sta ron, they saw person
and turned back. taking TO the wood. and
gong aroand. striking the ruad again abou,
two mites beyond, as near as they could
calculate. BY thus they got separated from
Indian. whom they nave not seen since. bu,
~ the confectionery store was broken into
thai night ard robbed, It is probable tina,
the Indian carr ied on; bis design. The,
went on that night to within a mile or t.o
OF Bethel. and ~eat into the woods and
conceaIed thcm.elves till next night. when
they pursoed their way down the Andre.
seogcin river TO David Ssnborn's wher.
they crossed the rIver. Up TO ,bi. time
they had eaten nothing since Sunday nirht
they veniured 10 call at MIR. joseph Mer
mis- for food. and obtained n quarter nj
spumPkin PIE apiece. Tbs wa. between
and 10 O'clock Tuesday night. The,
then pushed on tilI they were bcguileA 10
res, their wesry limbs in the old ,choolbou,,
They have explained boz they opened
their cell; il was by means Of toe wire. and
IL seems that the upper bar can be forced OF
the staple and the bolt showed back bv
working on it. The paddock was probably
ut on and not locked. n, It has been con.
sN'red unnecessary to DO any more ordi.
nsrv.
4 Nh Wormell is entitled to much c-.J;,