Connecticut western news., 1876-06-16
Sing Sing Prison COnvicts Attac
 @ Freight Train.

4OASA4S AA AS@A1Ae Another of those dare devil, desperate breaks occurred at Sing Sing prison last Friday morning.
 The story is graphically told by Officer James Jackson at the prison. Between eight and nine o'clock in the morning he was sitting in his office overlooking the prison grounds and the southern entrance to the northern archway. Suddenly he ob- served several convicts make rush up the track. Hastily he notified Warden Young, who in turn signalled all the guards. The convicts were James Carpenter, James Far rell, John Quinn, Frank Wood, John Mur- phy and Francis Deagan. They had been at work in the southern quarry, and had obtained permission to visit the hospital, which they did at 8 a. m., but instead of returning to their work they hid under the southern arch and waited for the train. It was pick up train drawn by locomotive 1o5, Wm, Powell, engineer.
 It was coming slowly down the track. and just before the engine reached the northern entrance to the arch, the convicts, Carpen- ter, Farrell, Quinn and Wood rushed to the locomotive and jumped on it, while Mur- phy and Deagan ran to the coupling in the rear of the tender and pulled the pin, in tending also to get on the engine; but the four first named commanded the engineer to pull her wide open, and she ran down the track like wind, the two last named convic!s jumping on the train, which was still under motion.
 As the engine emerged from the south end of the arch at lightning speed with the desperate conVicts on board, the guard on the southern post taking in the situation, at once raised his carbine and fired at the fu- gitives. The ball passed through the cab of the engine, just missing the engineers head. The latter, in order to show the guard that he was forced to run the engine, self down on the steps ot his engine, and holding on to the hand rail swung himself out of the range of the guardsman's car bine. At this junction one of the convicts VII s@AS OhSAAO N4OU @ AOTNAyOA S~AA oAO through the side of the cab at the engineer shouting at him at the same time, Get o1 here, you g-d d--n-.' The engi- neer obeyed quickly, when they compelled him to run the engine distance of tw' miles and a half and then stop her, whel the four convicts jumped off and made fe inc woods and haven't been seen since.
 The other two who could not get on tn engine but were compelled to board tn train, started down the track on a run when the latter stopped, hotly pursued b the guards who oVerhauled them. Singula to relate, Murphy had thrown his priso garb away and was attired in black pan and vest, white undershirt and straw ha Guardsman Ryan drew his revolver o Murphy, when the latter threw up his han( exclaiming: I give up; I'll go back IT other convict made no resistance, and bot were brought back to the prison and locke up in dark cell. Ten guardsmen and O ficers are after the others, with every pro- pect of capturing them before long.
 The escape can hardly be accounted fo Officers at the prison comment severely u on the action of the engineer of the trai but see nothing to justify such cours The engineer had no reason to jeapordi his life in the matter. The convicts we desperate men; they cared for nothing | freedom. The whole fault lies in the fs that the prison is too close not only to N York, but to the railroad track, and su scenes that transpired last Friday are lia1 to occur any day near or far.-Po1g7tket sie Eagle.
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