The daily gazette., 1877-09-04
RISsyON ! r. TRAGEDY. EIDI.
|FRaTE .ATTEMPTx sAT
EapE ,i BY TWO MOTOR
E1OTS CRI.MkyNALSs
Of the Night aWtaatachhmr'aaain''..., hhr'aa 4 I, |.
pss,s,ance and Fin al SUR
,der of.the Prisoners. .h'

pes,stance and Final Sur
nder ofthe Prisoners: 5. ..y
p eHARTFoRp, Sept 2rlT7;
ible tragedy occurred at the State
h Wealhersfield, near THIS city, al
h last night, resulting in the cold
murder of the night watchman
II the convicts. The primary OBJ
he murder and his, associate was
1 their liberty but mmaP life
Slessly sacrificed when interfer.
realened the failure of their plot,
beasure must have been long con-
N and aid from beyond the pri-
4 was received in some very in
le to the officials. The main
fbe fatal affray were secured from
Fdered from the murdered man
brief intervals of consciousness
y bis death, and are corroborated
~ the statements of prisoners In
The third tier adjoining the place
received the deadly shot.
THE PERPETRATORS. Il GG
murderer is Henry Hamlln, hail
Troy, N. Y, man of thirty,
moody, vlndictive and with a
{ countenance. His associate
Allen, hailing from New York
younger man and of rather an
disposition. Both were sem
il New London, in September,
eight years each, on indictments
They had been preying upon
g Island Sound shore, In the
during the summer, going ashore
and burglarizing summer res
Both were eventually captured,
being takeh on Long Island,
Greenport, after which a
, and bloody resistance. Dur
j first year Hamlin made sew
bedeCtual attempts to escape
prison, but subsequently quieted
ld both he and Allen had earned
good behavior, having only ten
more TO serve. II trA
FHE ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. O. ~r'
light about 7 o'clock, when the
we're locked in, Hamlip was
lis cell. Immediately afterward
ed the door with a skillfully con-
key the wards of sheet iron and
Is ilveted in and the handle
u a small wrench taken from a
in the shoe shop. }, After leaving
fummy on his bed he fed to the
er of cells and climbed on top,
here is an open space of five feet
illng, concealing himself until
pes had made their rounds for a
lnt and shut the spring bars to
doors. He then went down to
cell and released him with the
/. Both then remained IN con-
! until nearly midnight, when
arded their next step Of silencing
watchman, Wellese Shipman,
Fnt officer, who has been in the
fseVeral years. AQoLe.4l..s TT
finally encountered him in the
! corridor. Coming upon him
he fired a shot or two from a
Volver, thirty-eight calibre, b III
his aim,the convicts overpowered
IN instant, handcuffed him with
air Of irons unlike any ever used
prison, and which Hamhn un-
lab'y obtained outside, and then
pun with wooden gag secured
ther strap. They next started 10
Z top Of the cells, and thence tc
ugh the ceiling into the garrett
pman having partially loosened
hiS outcries alarmed them, and
PACK, Allen exclaiming,
Throat.
UADER OF THE wATcHmAN.
Ian promised silence, and they
.alleI of; but, hearing his out
eweu, they returned, and Ham
.ng previously secured Shipman's
held 1t close to the breast of the
q man and fired the fatal shot.
~ entered the left breast, Just
IL heart, the clothing bel ng burn
n powder. 1t was a. desperate
liazarded every chance of escape
oport attracted attention in the
Vm, where the other, shots had
noIlced, and the night keepers
w 1he Scene with their rifles
no,u n saw Hamlin standing 1ovel
n ana hred to scare him off, and
Aa, an ran another keeper blazed
aiililh h returning the fire from his
an uuI unsnccessfully. The con
an u mounted the top tier of cells
S some laths and plaster, from
ra,s as and raised themselves int
,ouor y, where in the darkness they
n dDpSSrarlly pS safe from pursuit. Al
VI TINS was an open doorwa,
INTO the garret of the warden
Snfsa q, anu Vehturing toward it they
,ohted an,ted by a couple of armed
anu retreated. Two hours latel
NJ syeu Gu 70 escape through the bel
y ~ iooi, but guards, reinforced b,
VI Wetherstield, had by thi,
md and an armed circle around th,
"d, ,h shot fired at them extin
'helr last hope.
NRESDER OF THE ooNv1crs. Dol
y Aust }ust after daybreak, they shout
tba,SS would surrender. and, re
son oneir steps to the ground fioor 8
FOonI u, surrendered at the door of tn,
|bnIv namlin without a word ,ant
|BbiygmIe Biy mIeamarking:-
warn pniau shot himself, did hep"
|est ,g csill immediately placed in tn
iroU uells, Hamlln in what is term
to ,Un cell. He was .unoommnniea
<staprnosu nout, but Allen related th
I'M oe OF the dreadful hours slb
n unt;, ~ stated above. Shipmal
Se ra.li oS aoont eleven O'clock to-da,
,nnplred, medical aid being uss
8 fami,,'a %S about forty years of age
<ths m y In Wethcrsfeld, and wa,
most reliable men in in tn
iolet et@ a. Liverpool, We barks Sylphudel