New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-07-28

the door and kept up q mumbling con-
versation for half an hour. During this,
time, as he himself related, he poured
into the preachers ear all the stories:
he had ever heard to the detriment Of
the 41cloth." He finally ended by sing
ing a hymn, and when he passed out.
side the cell door he turned and said.
IN a voice meant to be heard by the
hall watchman:
Good night, my son. I truly hope
that this visit has been the means of
doing YOU good. / will come again to-.
morrow, if possible"
With that he started for the hail..
and the Waterman passed him to the
wicket. This was unlocked without
question, as also were all other OBJ
structions to liberty, and he reached
the street without the slightest hind
rance. He had relatives in the sub
urbs OF the city, although the
fact was not known to- the prison.
officials, and he walked straight to
the house and was taken IN The Rev.
Tobias Green remained passive until
the hour came for the men to be lock-.
ed up, when he was discovered. An,
alarm was at once sent out but Clark
was safe. He remained secreted in the
house for about month and was
then shipped away, and his recapture
was never effected. In relating this
story he said that the five or six min
utes necessary for him to pass out Of
the prison aged him more than any,
two years of his life.
HONEST CHARLEY's ESCAPE.
A burglar named Charles O'Leary,
alias Honest Charley, was sent to the
Wisconsin state prison for a term OF
seven years, but even before he entered
the prison his friends offered to bet
two to one that he would make his es..
cape inside of a year. As in the case
previously reported, O'Leary was
posted about the prison before he be-
came an inmate. He was not looked
upon as a desperate man, but rather.
as a sly one; but after he had been in
prison for two months and no fault
had been found with him, any extra
surveillance was relaxed. O'Leary
was at first placed in the dining room,
but at his own request was changed to
the kitchen, he being a fair hand lat
cooking. All the food of the convicts
was received at the kitchen doors from
teams driven into the yard. The sup
ply for the day was then carried to the
storeroom, which adjoined the kitch-
en-. 1t often happened that two or
three teams were in the yard at once,
while on regular days wagons came for
swill and ashes.
O'Leary had planned from the first
to escape by way of the kitchen, but
he found the difficulties almost with
out number. Nearly all the cooks,
bakers, and helpers in that depart
ment were short-time men who would
not have taken advantage of an open
gate. None of them could therefore,
be relied on to help him out. The
wagons were always under the eyes OF
the guards on the walls, and were
quite often inspected at the gate be-
fore driving out. Had two convicts
placed O'Leary in barrel, covered
him up with refuse, and lifted him into a
wagon, the chances were that he would
have been safely carried out, but there
was not a man IN the kitchen whom
he could trust. It was part of his
duties to rake the ashes out from un-
der large oven and keep them raked
in a pile and wet down until an old
Irishman with a one-horse wagon came
to draw them off. This happened
every other day at 10 O'Clock in the
morning. The Irishman brought a
large ash pail with him, and when it
was full O'Leary helped him to carry
it out and empty it into the wagon.
The time occupied in filling the wag-
on was about forty minutes. the man
making two calls before coming to the
kitchen.
O'Leary determined that this Irish
man should be the means Of restoring
him to liberty, and he set to work
after a carefully matured plan. He
noticed that the mans breath always
smelled of whisky, and that about
every time he came he was quite
stupid with drink. He took strong
liking to O'Leary, and after a few
weeks volunteered to bring him
bottle of whisky. The offer was &C.
cepted, and Thanksgiving LAY named
as the time when heshould bring it in.