Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-06
. cLEvE3 gAI-sREAKER.

HIndoo Getaway Who Wac Really Able
and Could Give Most Men Points
For some months Raoiee Koli. a no
tOrious robber. behaved well His de-
voted wife then appeared and peti-
toned for some Jewels which she as
serted we're her own property Any
how. she loitered about. and il is said
she had an interview with him
Whether she helped or not in what
happened afterward is best known 70
those who must have assisted our ma
tive Jack Sheppard in his wonderful
escape. Ii is asserted that a. D. m
he was locked up in one of the solitary
cells. which had an iron barred door
and walls sixteen feet high. with a bat
ten and Mangalore tiled roof The
next morning Raoiee was non est His
escape was no mystery when the mode
was carefully examined.
He appears to have been provided
with light rope some twenty feet
long. which is usually used for the
weaving weft To this was knotted a
tape from his pyjamA At the end of
the tape he Is supposed to have tied his
cap with little mud in IL and had ad-
roitly thrown it so as 70 pass between
the beam of the roof and the tiles. By
a little shaking the weighted cap
brought down this end of the rope with
in reach When all is quiet be appears.
or is said to have swarmed up the rops
and mosS professionally removed tho
heavy tiles. placing them carefully one
on top of the other When the hole
was sufficient TO admit his body be got
.l rui drew the rope after him
.- rruu5 down from the roof
M.-,. ear was accomplished he
had ,o .... 4,as-ut the watchers and
clear the mu--r and outer walls and pass
the seutrIe~ Nothing dauuted. he ap-
pears to have made tor the central
tower by getting out of his own ward.
wriggled into the hospital ward and
mads for the outer ward at the back of
the hospital Here he placed an iron
po, against the wall. but found he was
too short 10 reach the top with its aid.
30 went 10 the bul5ug and wrenehed
of one of the shutters OF a window.
in the wall to assist in getting on tine
top Tins was easily uromplished To
descend ON the other .ide was nothing
for him, but the neat question was
more serious one that was suruOunt
ing the outer wall winch varied from
siEliteen TO twenty teet ,n height
Even tuis ha5 been thought OF. as
he walked half around the jail TO the
blashsuith's shop situated between
THE outeT aud INNER wallis where he
forced open the CHEST armed himself
with aH Implement suilicient for his
purpose and ue1, proceeded to the
superuteuieut'~ office which Is next 20
the >opoys guard room The paddock
1dered little resistance The contents
of the prisoners property box were soon
rausacked Appropriatiug forty rupees
m cash and rigging himself out IN the
best suit of clothes OF under trial
prisoners. he proceeded TO the outer
wall. where he must have been some
time listening to the footsteps of the
seBtlnel. and at the same time working
through the wall with his blaeksmith's
implement during the interval between
the sentry's visits
At last, when all but through. bis
keen hearing pointed to the time for
the removal OF the last impediment
and he was free. with forty rupees In
his pocket and a good suit of clothes 20
his back
Thus ended a well planned. skillful
and daring escape, much to the chagrin
of the Jail authorities and the contin-
gent guard. whose sentry shortly after
ward stumbled over the debris accu-
mulated on his footpath. which had not
been there when he last passed thaf
-AIlahabad Qndial Pioneer