Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-18
Criminal Record.

JERSEY CITY, Aug. 1S.-James Townsend
went to Gowanus last night for the purpose of
chastising his sisters son, Thomas Lewis, for
some misconduct. Aquarrel ensued, and Lewis
drew pistol and fired at his uncle, but missed
him and hit his mother, Mrs. Frances Hopkins,
in the right breast, fatally wounding her
Young Lewis Immediately delivered himself up
to the police
RIoToUs PROCEEDINGS.
OGDENsBURG, N Y, Aug. IA large num-
Der of persons, including formidable riUtous
element, gathered last evening at the hall in
which Baron de Carmin, the anti-CathOlc lee
tureT, was mobbed Tuesday evening. The
doors of the hall were closed, and on the arrival
OF the lecturer, he was conducted by the police
TO the police headquarters for protection, where
a large mob assembled. Subsequently the
authorities called for volunteers, and large
number of citizens were sworn in as special
policemen, and together with the regular force,
succeeded in clearing the Streets when the
lecturer was escorted to his boarding house.
An intense feeling toward the mob prevails,
and the citizens are organizing to vindicate the
right of free speech. Offers of assistance have
been received from the neighboring towns.
Ldter-The rioters of the Baron de Carmin
lecture affair are stillsdefant. Mayor Proctor
to-day issued a proclamation, stating that there
have been manifestations Of tumultuous char
acter in the city for the past two nights, occa-
stoned by the interruption of public meeting
and public feeling is now in such state OF ex-
cltcment that further and perhaps serious trouble
may be apprehended. H. warns all persons to
preserve the peace, and calls on all well dis
posed citizens to assist in maintaining order aud
the liberty of free speech, assuring the citizens
that he will use the power vested in him to pro-
tect the rights of all. A special meeting of the
common council was held this wrong, at which
it was resolved that the right of free speech
should be maintained at any cost.
A large number of special policemen have
been appointed and troops will be called
necessary. Thomas DAILY and number
leaders of the mob of Tuesday evening
been arrested. At this hour no hall has
secured, The excitement is increasing. The
friends Of law and order are determined that
the lecturer shall be heard. The police head
quarters are guarded by one hundred special
policemen, in addition to the regular force The
mayor is personally in charge. Many sus-
pected rioters are in the streets.
EXCITING AND EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT
SING SING.
SING SING, Aug. 17.-An extraordinary af-
fair occurred at Sing Sing prison to-day. At a
quarter before twelve tug boat, having canal
boat in tow and gong north, was observed ap-
preaching the prison dock with considerable
rapidity. The guard warned the pilot to keep
off, and the warning was needed apparently; not
outstanding, the steamer glided close to the
pier. Immediately twelve convictS, as if under
standing the whole movement, made a rush
HUN llelT WOThy lGdpGu Ou the CANAL BOAT
and ran pell nell over it to the tug and into the
engine room. The engineer was dSlodged, and
one of the cOnvicts dashed into the pilot house
and took charge of the wheel. Immediately the
tug was headed for the west shore.
The alarm was given as quickly as possible,
and many of the regular prison guards rushed
towards the pier. They aimed their pieces at
the convict pilot and shouted for him to stop,
but he crouched down out of sight, and the YES
sci still kept moving. Word was sent to the
Sparta, mile south, where a sailing vessel was
procured and sent in the chase. MIR, ChildS, of
the prison, also started up the track to Sing
Sing dock, and got sloop under way, filled
with armed men. At this time the greatest eX-
element prevailed, as news of the break became
noised about.
Hundreds of people hurried to the river. One
of the vessels sent out to capture the conyicts
overhaued the tug near ROckland, when the
convicts took to the small boats in the vicinity,
which some boys had, and rowing quickly to
the shore, escaped to the mountains. One con-
vict who got into the boat with a boy, was
pressed so close that he seized the boy and
placed him before him, so that the guard would
not fire. The guard did fire, not at the escap-
ing convict, however, but with the intention of
intimldating him and causing him to sur
render
He kept on pulling, instead, and reached the
shore, where he Joined his associates. Mr..
Latin, inspector, states that the cOnvicts are
now in the woods near Rockland, and says
they will be recaptured, as they are surrounded.
1t is believed this affair was planned two weeks
ago by persons in New York city. The tug
boat was the Dean Richmond, and the captain a
MIR. Norton. The engineer was Mr. Farrell. A
boy was also on hoard, named Farrell.
The tug left New York at 80 this morning.
The captain says two men hired him to come
10 Sing Sing to convey load of furniture to
New York, and he was to be paid 81 an hour
They hired him for the same purpose fort
night ago. and he came up; but, after landiug
the men said the furniture was not ready, and
they would 90 back. On board the tug, to-
day, after the tug was captured there was
found the convicts' clothing, a number of false
whiskers and moustachcs, and several Tevolvers,
which were brought from New York.
All the convictSlhad ample time to change
their clothing for suits brought up on the boats.
After the tug left the prison dock, the escaping
cOnvicts cut the canal boat loose so as to give
more speed to their vessel. AS soon as the af-
fair occurred, all the convicts in the prison were
locked up, and every guardsman was sent in
pursuit 1t is believed that two of the men who
planned the escape are in the mountains with
the convicts. 1t is possible that desperate
fighting will take place in the mountains, on the
west shore, before the convicts are captured
Lateral dispatch has been received from
Superintendent KelsO stating that two men
have been arrested at Englewood, N. j., sup
posed to belong to the gang which escaped.
Before dark, tonight, musketry firing was
heard in the direction of Rocklaud, on the west
shore, and it is thought that an encounter has
taken place between the convicts and the pur-
suing guards.
HIGHwAYMEE.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 17.-The Clovertac
stage, already robbed twice in Sonora county,
was again attacked last night by four or five
robbers Ten men and four women were pas
sengers. Some of the passengers resisted the
robbers and fired upon them. The fire was re-
turned, and I. II. Benton, a merchant of Ukah,
Mendocino county, was killed; Lieut.. B. S.
Coffman, agent for j. Friedlander, this city, was
fatally wounded and Sandy Wooworth, owner
and driver of the stage, slightly wounded. The
robbers got no plumber, but have escaped arrest.
CoLoRED KUKLUX.
JACKSON, Miss, Aug. IA few nights ago,
between forty and fifty negroes, all armed, as
semblcd at Holly Springs, and took negro,
named Florence Washington, from his dwelling,
and murdered him. Most Of the negroes en-
gagged in the affair have been arrested.
HoRRIBLEl
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. IA fiendish muir
der accompanied by circumstances of the most
horrible atrocity, has come to light in the
southern part of the state. Last Saturday, a
little girl, aged ten years, daughter of Thomas
Bennett, living near Fulton station, on the
Paducah and Gulf railroad, was missing from
her house. Search was made for her, but in
vain.
negro, who had been working for Bennett
since the war, was suspected and arrested but
escaped He was, however, shot and recap
tured. Becoming frightened, he confessed that
he had attempted to commit rape on the child,
but, finding her too small, he first choked her to
death and then accomplished his nefarious pur-