The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-06
A TEN-STRIKE.
a Decemvirate of Prisoners
Escape from the Kansas
City Jail
TWO Separate Schemes, Two
Freight Train Robbers Gone.
and Two Others Recap
tured.

J The Kansas City Journal ri Yesterday
morning contains the following account of
one of the boldvst Jail deliveries on record :
Another, and this time, successful Jail
delivery of huge dimensions, wa: discover
ed Yesterday morning.
/ About J:aO O'clock yesterday morning.
Jsiler Lee went down To feed the prisoners.
and discov. red that the rear grating
oi cell No. Il had been broken and that
there Was q mole In the outside cage also.
Both these holes we're about two icet long
and vary In width from five to cigh, inches.
There were three prisoners confined in the
/! cell, two m-n and boy. The boy remain
ed but the Ellen had fitted. The two pri.-
oners were very important ones, one OF
them having been arrested for completely
in the great freight train depre,lstions, bv
which goods to the amount Of 81, Gp0 have
been stolen from the cars of various rail
! roads. Tn. ir names are James Kelly, alias
/ McComb, 9Th; freight train robbers) and
James Wclch. alias Delaney for stealing q
I lady's watch.
/ The discovery OF their escape filed Jailer
I lee with condemnation, and he FASTENED to
report to Marshal Murphy. The marshal
+ i,.r the drpois. The latter started cut, but
returned Immediately to guard the Jail.
! On his arrival his CONSERVATION may be
( imagined when he found that the new pen
/ just built to accom- odate minor ofie nders.
had been opened and its eight occupa n:s
. bad escaped.
! The escape
FROM CELL No.
was made In this manner. AZ WIS explained
I in the Journal on the occasion Of the at
tempt to break Jail last Saturday night, the
! lime in the whitewrsh has corrodrd the
heads Of the bolts holding one side of the
iron betlstead TO the wall. They were with
out great difficulty broken of, and the bar
of iron torn from lis place. With this
strong crowbar they proceeded To pry of
the cross bars which form the lattice work
OF the rear Of the cell. 1t was labor of
no great difficulty, and only consumed two
hours time
Through the aperture thus made the
prisoners managed to pass, and the opera
ton described above WAS repeated with
like effect on the bars of the cage Once in
the outer corridor their work was easv.
They mounted the cage and picked the
brick from AT old furnace pipe hole in the
north wall, which had been recently fitted.
This hole was about u foot square, and
through this they crawled into stable and
thence out into the open air.
One wonderful thing IL that men as large
rs Kelly and Welsh could wriggle through
the small apertures described Both of the
men are s;outly built and weigh probably
l65 pounds each The scheme was quietly
carried out and was boldly executed. Dep
uty Marshal John Murphy made the
rounds Of the cells three times during the
night and Wing keshlear once, but heard
no noise nor saw anything suspicious
At the time these two men were solving
the problem of liberty,
ANOTHER PLOT
of the same nature being carried out i'm an
other portion OF the Jail, and without pre-
concerted arrangement. The eight prison.
ers confined i'm the new box were digging
towards fresh air too. They dug another
opening through filled conductor hole,
and dropped TO the ground distance OF
some nine feet. Thence they opened the
door to the area, and went glimmering over
the back fence. The prisoners who escap-
cd in this latter manner were: John Stig-
ALL aged 80 4; Chas. Curran, aged IL; John
Williams. aged "a David Jones, aged SO
Thomas Flood, aged %; George Baldwin,
aged 23, Chas. White, aged % and Charles
Clark, aged p.
Marshal Murphy's modification was
somewhat lessened by telegram which he |
shortly afterward received from Constable /
Hutchinson. OF Independence, who was met |
at the Grand Avenue depot early yester- |
day morning DO Deputy Marshal Lee, and
requested to keep lookout for the men at |
Independence. The dispatch reads as fol- |
lows:
INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Dec. 2, ga M
Con. Murphy, Marshal Kansas City,
have both your men, Kelly and Welch. |
Will bring them up on Texas today.
[Signedl JOHN HUTCHINsON
1t was at first supposed that Hutchinson |
had captured Kelly and WEIGH, as it was
not known the others had escaped when |
Lee reported to the constable in the morn
ing. The marshal was therefore very jubi-
liant, as all the Others who had escaped |
were serving Jail sentences, for misdemean-
ors, and many Of them had nearly served
out their terms. When the officer came
up with his prisoners, however, it was
found that they were Tom Flood and John |
Williams. Hutchinson had seen the men !
near the railroad track while on HE way to
independence, and coming back afterwards
met them on the track and arrested them.
NONE OF THE OTHERS
have yet been captured, though q thorough
search is being kept up. Marshal Murphy
has offered reward Of $25 for the capture
Of each prisoner, and it is thought most of
them will be retaken. The capture of the
two men most needed 10 the most doubtful
Of any, but every means will be employed
to have them apprehended Those that
belong here, and were i'm for short terms,
will probably be picked up soon, but it is
thought that Kelly and Welch will strike
Tor some distant point, where their appre-
nension will be less probable. The mar
,hal and all of his deputies were very
,lose. mouthed when questioned as to
pointers, and it could not be ascertained
whether they had received any clues rs to