St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-02-13
A Burglars Fight for Liberty.

Inc particulars of the. arrest at st.
Adams, of the Belgian burglar, Gustave
Kindt, were given last week. He was
an escaped convict from Sing Sing pris-
on, and was surrendered to the New
York authorities. The desperate at
tempt to escape from the officer is given
graphically in the N. Y. Times:
"He arrived at Troy at $50 yester-
day afternoon, just too late for the con
Meeting train on the Hudson River
road, and as the next train would not
start until Il p. M, there was plenty of
time for supper. The detective took
the prisoner into the railroad eating
room, giving him a seat in a corner
away from the door, and both eat heart
lily. After supper each lighted cigar
and walked up and down the platform,
smoking, and then took seat in the
gentlemen's waiting-room. At 10p. IN.
the detective noticed that the people at
the depot were thinning out in mum
bers, and knowing the desperate char
acter of the man he had with him,
thought it would be a precautionary
movement to get him in a car, where
the chances for an escape would be less,
SO he awakened him from his apparent
drowsiness and told him to come along.
hlndt ut once expressed a desire to go
to the gentlemen's retiring room. Jack
son in the meantime took his pistol, an
old-fashioned Smith & Wesson, from
bis pistOl-pOcket and placed it in the
side-pOcket of his overcoat. When
ready to leave the room, jackson pre-
pared to handcuff him again, when,
without any warning whatever, Kindt
dealt jackson a singing blow on the
forehead, and then butted him in the
stomach with his head. jackson was
only slightly stunned, and at once
grappled with his man, the latter weigh
ing 100 pounds, and jackson about I40.
For five minutes the struggle was ter
rifle one, when the prisoner seized the
detective in such a way that he was fast
getting the better of him. The latter
called loudly for help, but no one could
hear him. The prisoner kept bis hold,
exclaiming, Liberty is sweet I've got
to get out OF here,' when Jackson, get
ting his right hand free, pulled his re
vOlver and shot the prisoner in the face,
the ball entering the right cheek and
knocking two teeth out. The burglar
renewed the struggle with increased
desperation, when Jackson took delib-
crate aim and fred at his head. The
ball entered the head just behind the
left ear, and at the same time the pris-
Oner grabbed for the revolver. In the
struggle the chambers of the weapon
dropped out and fell on the floor, and
Jackson kicked them to one side with
his foot
By this time the wounded burglar
was somewhat weak aud he fought
wildly. A policeman having heard the
reports OF the pistol, hurried to the
scene of the struggle, when Kindt was
secured and taken to the station house.
A physician prObed the wound, but
could not find the ball, and jackson sat
up with his man all night, This morn
ing the physician decided that Kindt
could be moved. and Jackson took him
to Albany and put him on board the St.
Louis Express in a drawing-rOOm car.
The train reached here at I0.45 a. m.,
several hours behind time, when the
detective and his man were compelled
TO get off and take the Las D. m. train
for Sing Sing, as the st. Louis train
does not stop there. The prisoner thus
sat in the gentleman's room over two
hours, and seemed to be in great pain
all the time. He takes all the blame of
his wounds on himself. jackson is
much bruised on the head and body.
and almost worn out with his nights
adventure y