The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-07-07
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The 6ief paragraph ae.Gd., ..i.a
that Allen, the Hast CRANKY burglar, Who.
in company With one Rose,r, escaped from
ail in this city nearly q Seaf and half
ago, bad been convicted of bank robbery IN
Cesslands Ohio, and sntencd to 6x yep
cea1hneneat in the penitentiafy. The st6sy
q the eq7pe Of he tro p<isasen -floa IL
Hartford Jail and of the strenuous efforts
n,aae By 6an1iG Resell and Colonel Fem
for their rec1ptuFe has nesef been Made
public, and has beeh known to scarcely any
one cave the parties directly interested. II
Is briefly u follows: 'r. "
One day in February, 1869, there came TO
the jail three prominent and well-known
criminal lawyers Of the Hartford county bar,
who had been retained BY the prisoners as
their counsel. They ask of Colonel Fem,
the jailer the privilege of an interview With
the prisoners in the jai' Office Colonel Fem
at finA declined to grant the request, saving
he did not care to trust such men outside OF
the prison hans, balt finally, on the lawyers
ageeing to be responsible for the safe kee1,ing
u the prisoners. tlev were allowed to come
into the Office, Colonel Fenh keepiny guard
view the men returned to their rell, but cur
siderably richer than thy were before. The
sum Of two thousand dollars had been placed
in the hands Of the lawyers as bond money
On a former complaint, and this som less six
hundred dollars, which they kept for fees)
the lawyers gave back to the prisoners during
the interview, without informing Colonel
Fem Of the fact. and entirely unknown to
him, it being strictly against the rules Of the
Jail for any Of the prisoners to have money
about their persons. The prisoners secreted
this money, but Colonel Fem, not supposing
of course, that any honorable man would take
advantage Of private interview to furnish
means OF escape to ctnvicts, neglected to
search them. That night that money bought
liberty for thoue prisoners. The hall tender,
a man supposed TO be reliable, was given
$500 to unscrew the nuts that held the cell
bolts, he using wrench that confederate
outside whom some one else had advised of
the projected escape) passe-l in through the
window. Once outside their cells the pris-
Oners took the wrench and opened the hall
door, passing into the Office and thence to the
street, taking the midnight train south to New
York.
So much for the escale. As 10 the pursuit,
it has not been lax, As many supposed, but
has been vigorously prosecuted. Sheriff
Russell and Colonel Fem, besides Offering a
reward Of $500 for the arrest Of the prisoners)
have spared no travel or expense to effect, II
possible, their recapture. Each has been to
New York several times and Colonel Fem
went 10 Ohio after his man. The services Of
the most skilful detectives have teen employ
ed, and the chase has at times be m very
warm. Indeed Allen himself told Colonel
Fem at Cleveland recently, that he had been
arrested several times by New York police-
men but had bought them of, paying, in all,
nearly thousand dollars, to crCape falling
into the hands of the Connecticut authorities.
Two requisitiOns have been taken to New
York for him, and one is now in Ohio, in
the hands Of the proper officers 80 that
when Allen serves out his time there, unless
he dies or escapes, he will be brought hack
to Connecticut. Rogers, it is supposed, il in
the far West. Allen, who in Cleveland
goes by the name of Hardie, Is by far the
bigger scamp of the two, and the most slip
perry. When sentenced in Cleveland he told
the Judge that he would get away anyhow
and Colonel Fem thinks he will Stand Il
a good sight to- His wife, an exceedingly
sharp, keen, and withal elegant and lady
like looking woman, is with him at Cleve-
land, and will help him if she can. 1t is
supposed that she Is one Of those who aided
him in escaping from here-Harfod Post.