Smyrna times., 1873-12-17

alas Thomas Hope, is also a Philadelphian,
and as grand a rascal as ever trod the earth.
Hope is said to come from a good family, who
reared him with care and educated him at
ale College, but he soon forgot his early teach
ings and associated himself with the worst Of
men, and eventually became the brother-in-
law of the notorious Jimmy Haggerty, who
was shot year ago last summer by the no less
notorious Reddy the Blacksmith. About four
years ago he was arrested Tor robbiDg the safe
OF the Minehill Railroad Company, in the
Franklin Institute Building, Philadelphia. He
was captured just as he was leaving the build
ing with his plumber, but owing to the fact that
one OF his partners in this crime was very
respectfully connected" be was never brought
to trial, and the matter was hushed after the
money he had stolen had been recovered In
1870 Watson is next heard from. During that
year he robbed, in connection with Ned Lyons
and Johu Huges, Smiths banking house in
Perry, New York, but made such bad job OF
it they were soon after arrested, and in Octo-
Der of that year tried found guilty and SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment in Sing
Sing. They served until the early part of last
summer, when Hughes was pardoned on ac-
| count of ill-health and soon after died, and
! Watson and Lyons a week afterwards escaped.
| lie eluded the officers of the law until that
memorable day, the Sth of last month, he was
arrested by our police at the Ninth and Kir z
wood house.
James Howard, alias James Kingsley, alias
Joseph Lawler, is the youngest of the four
criminals, and noticed, especially by the ladies
because of his good-looking face and shapely
form and the air of injured innocence which
charscterizes his bearing. Lawlor was raised
in New England, but at an early age forgot or
] ignored the teachings of his Puritan parents
and from choice chose life of crime rather
than follow in the footsteps of good father
or profit by the precepts of most excellent
and amiable mother. He has been engaged
in many burglares and has the reputation Of a
| bold and daring man. He is an excellent per
son to plot and scheme and has but few equals
in executing his designs. In 1871 he was con
victed OF grand larceny and burglary in New
York City and sent to Sing Sing Tor ten years
| OF course he did not serve out his term of i'm
prisonment, and in October of last year he es
capped. Nothing was heard of him by the au
| thorltles from that time until arrested on the
Sth ult., at the kirkwOod street house.
James Brady, alias Ed. II. Hurlburt, the
fourth and last man of this interesting quar-
tette, Is from New Orleans and one of the mos
| d. sperate looking men imaginable; he is, IL
fact, repulsive in his appearance aud would
stop at nothing to accomplish his purpose
Brady has been guilty of several burglaries anC
during the last ten years has been sentenced
two or three times to various pententiaries
He has always escaped before serving out hi
time, and on the Goth of last October succeeded
in breaking out OF Sing Sing The following i
the history OF his last escape: Brady had a
his cell companion a burglar named William
Miller and, obtaining a key of the cell door
and also OF powerful jack screw, during Sc
we're storm, preparations for the escape wer
completed. They first tore their blankets int
strips, and then made two dummy figure
which they placed in the bed then opene,
the cell door with their false keys and emerge
on the corridor, locking the door behind them
With the jack screws they forced the bars of
window in the corridor looking out on the yard
Tying the blanket to one of the bars they low
cred themselves into the yard and escaped
The first discovery was made by keeper Beech
or, while patrolling round the the prison abou
5 O'Clock in the morning. He saw the blanket
hanging from the corridor window, and at ono
suspected an escape; examined all the ce
D doors, and found them secure. Looking int
Brady's cell he saw what appeared to be tn
two prisoners lying on the bed, and passed o
to examine the next cell, but on returning an
entering Brady cell he found the figures wer
dummies, and gave the alarm, but it was to
8 late, for the bird had flown and nothing NOR
seems to have been heard of him until his al
rest at Ninth and Kirkwood on November Stt