The sun., 1881-01-16
KILLED BY A PRISON GUARD
BUCK WLLSH SHOr DEAD WHILE rs
GAPING FROM SING SING.


Two Other pri.one-. Called Dnen by q Man
with n ocked Cnrbiac-A stampede Pre-
vcn,ea-Now Walsh Got hi. Sentence.
SINd SING. Jan. 15--Frank, alias "Buck'
Walsh. a prisoner sontcnced on Sopt 81. 1880,
TO twenty years IMPRISONMENT for burglary in
the first degree. WINS shot at half pnst 4 O'Clock
this afternoon. He was employed In the shoe
shop und his company had Just marched down
stairs and been reformed in close order in the
yard. whom ho broke ranks with two follow
prisoners and nll three ran through an open
iron gateway to tho river. Leapng down upon
the ice. they ran obliuuely up and across the
river. Officer II. @. Roberts. who had
charge OF the company, kept the othcr
mon under good discipline. though q genera,
stampede was for moment probable. OfIlcor
Edward Nolan was In the guard house on the
upper dock Since tho leo has boon strong the
river guards hRvo been armed with carbines.
Nolan saw 'ho men from a window. and came
out. Ho put his carblno to his shoulder and
ordered the mon back. Two OF them returned.
but Walsh kept on. When he had got about
fifty feet from tho wharf. and about twenty rods
from whore Nolan stood. Nolan gave n final
order to halt. II wns disregnrded. and he fired.
Walsh foil dead on his face in the snow. Tho
| large bullet entered his lei. shoulder behind.
| and came out OF his right breast. passing
| through his lungs.
Walsh was brother OF the man who cut n
girls throat in Brooklyn week ago. Warden
| Brush esteems 1t n lucky shot. Tho report OF
o s ns s Of thu
ncted as preventive OF general stampede
that otherwise might have been attempted.
names OF Wnlshs two companions arc James
Snyder and Patrick H3ick, each 2s years old.
| Wal lsh was % wears old. He was six feet two
inches tall He had previously spent three
teEms in the Kings County penitentiary. Ho
as Boson ON eneng the prison He
said he had no occupation. He had been
| cell. Some inkling OF tho attempt to escape was
given to Warden Brush yesterday. though ii
was supposed to DO mere convcts' talk. Snyder
IN the s' rst dssreo req an and Haick i was 81 sentenced
for fifteen years IN the same year for rob
sse' mon had sohins aSPnd to 'it% b a
before. Last fall it, was discovered that they
| had dug their way eight foet up through solid
lve-foot, wall by eight months OF labor with
tools stolen from their workshop. In another
ing, at a long, stone with a jack, screw. they
Severed They soncSrsa the Spe9ng i in
wood they placed canyas; ; and over tho cam can;
was whitewashed. and yet no suspicious were
the roof and the wall in which they worked
Croton Point juts ont from the Sing Sing side
OF the river. The ice is solid to this point. and
thence across the river. 1t 10 not solid in the
middle OF the river opposite the prison.
The burglary for which Walsh was sentenced
vas committed on Aug. IS. a,l55 Henry street
| Brooklyn. the residence of William Tigney. O
retired merchant. AT about 2h A. NJ Mr.. and
Mrs. Tigney were awakened by the moving
about in their room ct two men. one OF whom
put q pistol to Mrs. TiCney's hoad. while the
other knocked Mr.. TiGney down and tried
to stfe him with n PILLOW. Tho old couple
struggled desperaiely; and Mrs. Tigney, escap.
ing from h er antagonist. succeeded In opening
front window and giving an alarm. The
burglars fed before the POLICE arrived. leaving
a. which they had taken frop tho pockets OF sIr
Tigney's trousers. Tne neGhbSrs saw saw tn,
back yard through the yard OF the Dutch
they disappeared. A description OF Them wa.
given to the police. One OF the two pairs o
shoes left behind by the burglars was identified
by the shoemeker who mads them as havinl
| been made for Walsh, who was traced to Bostoi
and arrested a few weeks later. He WINS con
victed in the Kings County Court OF Sessions