The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-04-30

ANOTHER GAoL Within
six months ten Territorial convicts have
escaped from Official custody IN this
CITY. The first, al Indian, under sem
tcncc for three years for burglary es-
capped from the old county jail. on
Painters alley. Again one Chas. Lane,
mad house" keeper lit out, while
employed on the streets shortly after,
general delivery took place az the
new county Jail, when four prisoners
made their escape. two OF whom were,
however, subsequently recaptured
Some excitement was caused On the
streets yesterday morning bya rumor
to the effect that second general jail
delivery of Territorial convicts had
taken place on the night previous.
Subsequent inquiry proved the truth Of
this rumor. The convicts who had es-
capped were four in number, viz Pat
Shay, Dan Lynch, Dan Sullivan and
Pat Quinn. The two former were
among the four who escaped in the first
instance, and were the two recsptured
The first. Shay, had ten months more tn
serve, being under sentence for grand
larceny and assault with a deadly
weapon. The second, Lynch, had six
months more TO serve. having been
convicted for making raid on an Indi-
an hat and brutality assaulting an old
Indian by pouring can of coal oil on
his head and setting it on fire. The two
latter were convicted at the last term
of the District Court here, and had
about five years each to serve, having
been sentenced for stealing cattle and
butchering them, and also for another
stealing two barrels of dogfish
oil. The escaped prisoners included
all those confined in the southern
apartment of the Jail excepting Moss,
under sentence Of ten years for shooting
Peterson. 1t seems that Moss had some
falling out with the o:har members
of tho gang. and that upon eff
fecting their escape they refused
10 permit him TO join them. Moss was
found in the morning in rather pitt
able plight. having been bound fast in
his cell and gagged. 1t seems that pre-
parations for the escape have been 60
ing on for some time. It was effected
first by some one of the convicts un-
locking his cell door. then stepping out
into the corridor and unlocking the
doors of all the other cells, one key
fitting them all. The prisoners. once
out into the corridor, by means of cords
made Of strips Of sheets gained access
to the yard by a window, one OF the
iron bars Of which they sawed off. pro-
badly previous TO this time. They took
into the yard with them two long cords
composed of strips of sheets with n
stout hook made of wire (pail bail y
securely attached to one erd of each.
This hook they threw across the top Of
the high fence, allowing one cord to
hang down on the inside of the yard
and the other en- the outside. BY the
aid OF these they scaled the yard fence.
After leaving the jail they started off
in q southerly direction past the brew,
cry, as their steps indicated. They
were also tracked some distance up the
beach road. and were seen about three
o'clock lat least 1t is supposed to have
been them at the head of the bay
hurrying on up the river. 1t is sup
posed that the key used. and which
has never been found. is the same one
with which they effected their first
escape, Pat Shay or Dan Lynch having
kept it secreted on their person ever
since their capture. Moss says they
left at about two o'clock. and that be-
fore leaving they sawed off the center
link of their shackles with the same
instrument with which they severed the
window bar