Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30
Daring Escape from Montpelier
Jail.

jail.
BARTON, THE WATERBURY BANK BUR
CLAIR AT LARGE-FIvE HUNDRED
DOLLARS REWARD OFFERED!
The Montpelier Journal gives the fol
lowing particulars in reference to the re
cent Jail escape at Montpelier:
About eight o'clock on Monday even
ing, our people we're startled by cry Of
"t1re, fire." in the street, and the ringing
Of alarm bells. The cry was soon how.
ever changed to "jail, JAIL" and crowG
of people pressed forward to the jai
house, where it was discovered that Chas
Barton, one OF the alleged Waterbury
Bank burglars, together with McAvoy
who was committed Friday last, for an
assault on Dennis Fitz Gibbons, had sue
ceeded in making their escape.
The particulars of the escape are as fol
lows: A few minutes before, Mr. A. P
Squires, the detective, had called at the
Jail for the ostensible purpose of bidding
good bye to Handlin, WHO had been SEN
fenced to State Prison that day, and who
he supposed would be sent off the next
morning. He was of course readily ad.
mitted, as he had been many times pre-.
viously, accompanied by Miss Diana
Camp, the daughter of the jailor. They
first went into the office, a room about
nine by ten feet, which opens into the
Jail. Before unlocking the Jail doors
however, Miss Camp took the precaution
to lock the office door, which they had
just passed through, and then proceeded
to unlock the Jail doors. They were hard
ly unlocked before rush was made by
the prisoners, thirteen in number, the
light was extinguished, and they all
poured out into the office, but were ap-
parently baffied in their intentions by
finding the office door leading out into
the entry to the house locked. There was
however an migrated window in the
room, six feet and two inches from the
floor, the dimensions of which were two
feet ten inches in length by one foot four
inches in height, and consisting of three
lights of glass. This window opened into
bed room, and door opened from the
bed room into the kitchen.
It is of course impossible in the confu-
sion which ensued. and in the absence Of
any light, to determine exactly how these
two escaped prisoners got ar and broke
two lights eff glass from this window and
emerged into the bedroom. This however
they succeeded in doing, and thence pro-
ceeded to the kitchen, where, smashing
another window, they made their escape
Jailor Camp. who was in the building at
the time, succeeded in grasping Barton
about the waist, but was unable to keep
him.
The two escaped prisoners are thought
to have been seen running near the rear
of the State House. crying fire." TO the
extent of their ability. What attracted
peculiar atrsutfnn was their earnestness
in CRYING "fire," while so much engaged,
apparently, in getting away from it. No
serious injuries were sustained by Mr..
Camp or any of his family, although Mr..
Camps hand was badly cut with glass.
and several beautv-spots are apparent
upon the face of Miss Diana.
Barton, and his alleged COnfrere, VIM.
Davis. had. during the week past, been
brought before the Grand Jury and duly
indicted for the Waterbury bank robbery.
and the hail of Davis had been raised TO
$4,000. Barton did not ssk to have his
bail fixed
The escape of Barton has of course Gre
ated an immense excitement in town. and
since it's occurrence it is wonderful to see
the number of people who knew it" from
the outset, and had, according to their
story, "told you so" at least thousand
times before.
There are various snrmises of "ways
that are dark" and "tricks" that unfor-
tunately were not "vain" in relation to
the escape of Barton, but of this matter
we shall say no more until we know
more.
Prompt action was taken by Sheriff
Pearce and his deputies, and handbills
were promptly issued, Offering a reward
of five hundred dollars for Barton. We
understand, too, that officers have been
dispatched in all directions to secure his
arrest if possible. The following ia de-
scription of them:
Charles Barton is about five feet nine
inches tall, about forty years of age,
rather spare, but quit athletic, dark com
plexioned, with face pitted as if by small
pox, durk eyes and very thin chin whis.
kers He is the smaller one of the two
arrested for that offense. He was dressed
in black clothes at his escape.
Timothy McAvoy, of Irish birth, aged
about twenty-five yeara, about five feet
five inches tall, black and curly hair,
rather red face, and were at the time of
his escape tanbark colored pants
RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION. - The
system of unfair discrimination enforced
by railroad monopolies had become one of
the crying sins of the day. The Scbenec-
tady Union ex' ibits the following dam
aging facts concerning the New York
Central:
"We learn that not long since the price
of freight from New York to Chicago was
fifteen cents a hundred; at the present
time it ia twenty-five cents from New
York to this city, and fourteen cents of
this amount is charged from Albany here.
Freight from Albany to Hoffman's Ferry
is forty cents hundred, fifteen cents more
than it is from New York here. Passen-
gers can go from Chicago to New York
cheaper than they go from that city here.
Freight is cheaper to Chicago than it is to
Buffalo. The local business of the road
has to sustain it. while through business
is put down to starvation prices. New
Jersey dees not allow its railroads to rob
its citizens in this way, and why should
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