The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-09
THE BRODHE.AD MURDER.
How They Escaped from the stroudsburg Jail
The Pursuit aud Capture of OrIne.

The Pursuit and Capture OF OrIne.
correspondent of the Scranton Republican
furnishes the following additional particulars of
the escape from the Stroudsburg Jail of Brooks
and Orme the announcement OF which was
chronicled in The EVENING TELEGRAPH:-
The episodes in the Brodhead murder case are
many, exciting, and varied. The last chapter
was heraded in by the ringing of alarm bells
In Stroudsburg, at about o'clock on Saturday
morning last. The citizens thus awakened
listened to hear the cry of fire, but heard instead
''the prisoners have fed" Very soon there was
q large rally at the Jail of q very excited multi
tude, armed and unarmed, on horseback and on
foot, eager for the chase.
II seems one of the prisoners feigned sickness,
and at length tumbled down on the floor OF the
cell as if in fit or spasm The other one called
to the old jailor, who was watching in the hall,
and asked him if he would come III and help him
lift his companion on the bed. The old man
unsuspectingly unlocked the door of the cell,
leaving the Keys sticking in the lock. The pri-
sopers at once sprang to their feet commanding
the tailor to keep still at the peril of his life.
Their hopples and handouts they had previously
removed without keys by hammering them open,
and they now sprang out, closing the cell door
on the old tailor, and were soon ut liberty out
side the jail. They had failed to lock the j0ilor
in SO in few minutes after their escape the
bells rang out the alarm, and at an early hour the
chase began. Couriers on horseback were sent
out in every direction, whilst those on foot took
to the fields and woods. A bloodhound brought
from Jersey for the purpose seemed To Indicate
that the fellows had made for the Pocono Noun
tains.
An examination of the empty cell led to the
discovery of an opening in the wall almost srih-
ciently large to have admitted their exit from
thence. IL made by saving out a piece
from an oak plank about ~ or IL inches wide by
two inches thick, and then digging almost
through the main wall of the building. The
saving seems TO have been done in the usual
prisoner style, with case-knife filed for the
purpose. 1t must have taken many hours OF
labor The stones taken from the wall were hid
in their bed. Why they chose to operate on
the old joilor instead of this opening we know
not
Throughout Saturday the excitement was very
great in Stroudsburg and vicinity, and business
came to a halt equal to the day of the murder.
The Sheriff had offered thousand dollars re-
ward, private individuals had added other hun
dreds 10 the offer, and the pursuit was vigorous
and earnest. Up to Sunday morning nothing
had been heard from the criminals Many OF
the pursuers had returned declaring the chase
In vain. At length, at about o clock in the
afternoon, il rumored that they had been
captured Soon after crowd approached
Stroudsburg, when il was found that the pri-
soner, Orme, was in custody while Brooks was
still at large.
found il difficult to flee from their pursuers, and
were found in q barn of one Mr. Long, on Sunday
morning, only few miles from Stroudsburg. A
boy had gone into the barn, and on geItlhS nay
for his horsel had come upon them. lhey asked
him if he would bctray them. Tie said no.
Going TO the house he told his father VINO came
to the barn and promised the same thing: lie
took them to the house, gave them somelhAhS u
eat. and while they were eating Long set out Tor
stroudsburg, where he inquired if he would gel
the reward If he informed the authorities Where
the prisoners were Being answered III the
affirmative, he told the story, when Il party
hurried back to the scene. Arriving az
Longs il was found that not only were the
fugitives gone, but Longs horses also. Inc
party followed hastily on and soon came in slgh
OF the fleeing conycts. These, seeing their pur
suers, and not being accustomed to horseback
riding, left the horses and the road and took u
the woods in opposite directions. Orme wa
soon 0vertaken when he turned around threw
open his arms and begged TO be shot on the
spot But he was returned to the Jail. II is re
ported that he said il he had known the boy
would have revealed their whereabouts he woulC
not have left the barn alive IL is also said tina
as he (Orme) was weakly and could not travel
he urged Brooks to leave him at the barn and h'
make his escape, but that Brooks refused Il
do
The Governor has not yet fixed the secont
appointment for the execution
The Pope intprfered with a sociat,, a, p nm,