The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-04

FURTHER PARTICULARs.-A ten
o'clock yesterday forenoon Chief Thorn
dyke aud bis assistant, Mr. z. Minnick,
arrived from telegraph camp. on the
Muckiiteo trail, withtwo OF the escaped
prisoners whom we mentioned yester-
day morning as having been captured
the day previous. The two were Pat
Quinn and Dan Lynch, the latter hav-
ing but q few months 20 serve. and the
former about FIVE years. The prisoners
appeared foo.-s0re and utterly detected ;
rather the worse for their long tramp
aud wild goose chase" after liberty
The officers left here on Thursday
mornirga little before three o'clock Ia
pursuit Of the prisoners, whom they had
learned were seen the day before on
the Muckilteo trail, a short distance
this side of an old camp on the route
called the Eighteen mile Station. Their
purpose was 10 surprise the prisoner
at this camp. where II was probable
they would stop over for the night. or
about the time they would be turning
out IN the morning So they rode on,
reaching their destination al an early
hour, but no traces of the prisoners
could DC found there. Concluding that
they must have camped out somewhere
along the trail, they mounted their
horses and rode back TO telegraph
camp, some three miles this side, where
a party Of men employed on the line
are making their headquarters. They
learned that two men supposed 10 be
the prisoners had emerged from the
woods and taken the trail just beyond
the camp only few moments after
they had passed there on their way to
the eighteen-miIe station. Again they
turned back and started in pursuit.
They had not proceeded far when
Thorndyke discovered traces of their
footsteps just along the edge of the trail
In the brush. Minnick here turned
back with the horses. intending to re-
turn afoot to the station about five
o'clock with pair of blankets Thorn
dyke went N a.ore, tracking the pris-
oners into a deep ravine, where he
believed they had gone to secrete them
selves and rest until dark, or perhaps
for the night. Here he left their
trail, and determined to go On to
the station and take up a position
In the woods near. and if necessary
spend the night there and wait for them
to come along in the morning. He had
suspicion, however, that they too
would seek out the station about night
fall for camping place. At Lalf-past
five o'clock Minnick came along with
the blankets, and the twain soon had n
comfortable bower fitted up for the
night in fill view of the old station.
They were just wrapping themselves
comfortably up in the blankets. as a
protection against the cold night air.
when along came the prisoners and en-.
tered the station. They here separated
and entered the station simultaneously
from the rear and front entrances. The
first thing the prisoners saw or heard
OF them they were standing over them
with drawn revolvers. They offered
no resistance. They had sack in their
possession containing a small amount
of provisions. These they had proba-
bly, procured in the jail by slowing
away small portion of their allow.
ances each meal for week or so previ.
Gus to their escape. Their irons were
off. They were very reticent as to the
other two prisoners, and as to matters
connected with their escape. etc They
had no arms with them. and said they
thought 1t was pretty rough that they
must come back to Seattle after going
TO 50 much trouble.