Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-02

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n,~rvon,. June 18th. A desperate
-.,,.ur, 10 escape was made sb q
o,cloct Yesterday morning BY the prison,
ar. a, work 10 the forge connected
w;,h Clinton Prison. The plan seems 70
h,v, b.eu we'll maiOred. and failed only
because Of the precautions which nave
lately been taken to give the alarm al
most instantly, and bring to the scene Of
trouble all the officers of The prison and
,he inhabitants Of the village. The men
who work in the forge are generally long
term men. The leader was Chss. Albert
.op. who was sent from Troy for burglary
and is serving his second term. lie was
a dOspe ado, and was wearing chains
having recently broken prison. But Tor
the failure Of one Of the prisoners to dis
able his guard at the proper 'ime' doubt,
less the forty prisoners in the forge would
have escaped. There are three guards and
ono keeper, all armed with revOlvers' In
the forge. which is in use night aud day
AT night the iron gates are locked the
three guards and keeper remaining inside
and another guard stationed at one OF the
gatcs. The plot seem. to have been that
at a signal tho prisoners should knock
down and disarm those guards and the
keeper, and then knock a hole through
tae roof and jump OF into the street and
make for the woods, only q few rods dis
tant. This could easily have been done.
as the forge is close to the rickeis.
TIE ATTACK.
Albcrison gave the signal by scizing
Mr.. Turner, the keeper, and John Me-
Laurhlin, a convict from Brooklin. who is
suspected Of being the murderer OF PAN
, erma, struck Turner on the head with
, bar Of iron, knocking him senseless. The
keeper was then disarmed. Next. Mr.
Radnode, opc of the guard, was knocked
A down with the same bar Of iron. Rober
Renfor.h, a New York city convict
sprang upon Mr.. Eddy. another guard
9 with a stone hammer and hit him on to-
G of the head, knocking him senselcss, ant
disarming him. This disposed of thre'
a of the guards, but for some reason tn
# fconvic.s who had been expected 20 tax
# care of the othor guard failed in the
part, and the guard ran to the iron ga'
and gave tho alarm to the officer on III
II outside. Mclaughlin, Albcrtson and abo'
n. twenty other convicts then seized a Ion
ladder, and made for the roof, takln
: the sledge hammers and bars Of iron
r. knock off the heavy iron plates wi
10 which it is covered. But before the
., could effect n breach, the officers outs,'
40 blew the alarm whistle and rang the pr
n on bells. Hca ring these notes Of war
Al inr, the c%onviots know that their gan
ar we trt,'-rs unu- suuvr tuvst OF rrtm 7
ny summing their work and looking as inn
he cent as lambs. The whole transaction q
30 cnpicd but a few minutes. The guar
were all seized and Knocked down at Il
same time, and had it not been for d
&c failure to secure tho fourth guard, II
y plot would have been successful.
y None Of the officers were fatally i
Oh jurcd on Tuesday moraing, Though on
u Mr.. Eldy, will probably bc disabled f
IL some time. The leaders, Albcrtso
u Mclaughlin, Ryan and Renforth. q
III confined in dark coils. and are to DO kel
!" on a low diet until thoy are considerab
reduced.