The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-19
IN THE TOLLS.
E II. Croker who Released ].
Volney Ryan, Captured.
Dirty, Greasy and Ragged; He De.
fies the Authorities.

Monday morning, July %, 1881, at 4:l0
o'clock, Sheriff Coupers was aroused from
his peaceful slumbeIs by the shrieks OF
Minnie Spuyer, one of the prisoners cobfin
ed ID The county Jail. Hastily donning his
apparel sni entering the jail TO learn the
cause of the oItcry. He was told by her
their escsp. from lhe Jail. investigate
S. on proved that she was correct aud that
J. voLNEY RYAN,
one Of the greatest swindlers and boldest
criminals Of modern times, and whose his
tory is only too we'll known to many Seda-
liens, was missing IS was also Charlie
Moore, a CssS county GRIM
insl, who was awaiting trial
for the cold bloode aud DELHI rate murder
OF NJ j. Donaysn, prominent merchant
of harrlsonville, in July, 1850, at that
place.
The prisoners had effected their exit by
SAVING AWAY THE BOLT
TO their cell aud bar from the cage which
encloses the corridor, thus getting to the
outside corridor. With chise! they then
proceeded to dig hple in the north wall,
taking out the BRICK one BY one and laying
them upon the floor Of the Jail upon a
blsnk.t. Just as they had completed
their task and were makiug their exit
Minnie was awakened and discovered them
AID gave the alarm, but too lale to secure
tie apprehension OF either OF them.
THE AFTER HISTORY
of J. Volney Ryan, his capture at shreve-
port. Louisiana, and final i'm
u
iteutiary will be remembered by the
BAzoO's re ders Shorty after the is ape Of
he prisoners information WAS obtained,
which led 10 the arrest OF one f. Ii. Crock
er, who had been working about the Jail in
the employ OF the contractor ablut the
18th or 29 h of june previous. On Tues
day, Angus! Ped, Or, cksr was
BROUGHT UP FOR TRIAL
before Justice Clark on the charge OF aid
ing prisoners 10 escape from Jail. The
PRINCIPAL witness against him WAS John
MeGraw, Al old man afterwards sent 10 The
peuitentisry on the charge of stealing a lot
street.
McGRAw swCRE
he had formed the acqusihtance OF the de-
terdant at the time he had worked at the
Jail ard had given him 80 cents to purchase
a file for him with which to sharpen
some saws, in the possession OF
Ryan. Croker made The purchase, de-
liversd the file and received from Nolrey
and Moore 81 for hisservicss. Ii had beea
the irteltion to eff, ct geneTal delivery,
ard Mc(iraws cell had been partially filed
omen haforr RYAN and Moore lett but they
were the OILY ones who escaped
wM. KERR,
a clerk at Brsy's store, swore to having
shown the defendant a lot OF files sbOut that
tine, but had not sold him any S they did
rot have the kind he warned. Croker
WIS bound over In the sum of $500 to the
CT iminal court on the strength OF the evil
dsDce sdduc q, but subsequently, jumped
his boud and disappeared. The criminal
court failed to take Judgment sgsinst
his bOndsmen at an. next term,
snd on the following term thi>
was made a p~eie>t by which they escaped
its payment. About week ago Croker
agsin
PUT IN HIS APPEARANCE
in SedaIis, and being identified was spot
ted until yesterday, When capias writ was
issued b. Judge StrOther, and Constable
Csrnsc proc-e ed To arrest Croker upon il.
Croker was very indignant and violent
over the curtailmeut OF his liberty, but the
Erobs b'li,ies are that sufficient proof will
De Obtaiu,d 10 cage him long enough to
tame his wild spirit.
THE HOPE OF THE NATION.