Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
evening be was placed In a gloomy eel
Liz MoNrE CRI,ro,s NsoAPE.
a New York Convict Who Initiated a
Hero of Romance.

= New York Convict Who Initiated a
Hero of Romance.
NEW YORK, July1S.-Daniel C. Curry,
% years old, a member OF the Eighth
Regiment National Guards, and a
plasterer by trade, appeared unexpec-
f tedly at his home, No. 21O East One
Hundred and Tenth street, fortnight
or more ago and aStoniShed his wife,
who supposed he was still a prisoner on
Harris Island. Curry's neighbOrS
thought his term Of Imprisonment had
expired. Curry himself kept his lips
closed and enjoyed life amazingly. Po-
liceman Pertell, Of the Eighty-eighth
street police, walked into the house on
Tuesday, however, and arrested Curry
on charge of escaping from prison.
Curry was arranged before Police
Justice White, in the Harlem Police
Court, yesterday. A copy Of the COM
ment showing that he had been sem
fenced on May Is to Harris Island for q
year was produced and Curry was taken
back TO serve out the uneXpired term.
How did Curry escape? That was the
subject Of an interesting story told in
court by Curry and Keeper NJ. S. Ro-
han, Of Harris Island, who had come 10
the city TO get him.
Curry was a quiet prisoner. He soon
won the favor OF the keepers and was
put to work with a gang in pOtters'
field. Many liberties were permitted
him that the others did nOt.have.
When the keeper called the men to-
gether at night on June GO and marched
them 70 quarters Curry slid away and
Skulked along the bushes on the road
side until he reached the dead-hOuSe,
where he pushed himself in through an
open window and climbed over q pile Of
plain wooden collins. Into one OF the
collins he jumped, lying down, and drew
|the cover on. Until night he stayed in
Pie coffin. Then he climbed out, and
Binding the body of a man brought there
FOR burial, proceeded 10 strip the corpse
Df its clothing. He clothed the body in
bis convict suit and put on the dead
hans clothes.
Then Curry stole out OF the window
and ran down 10 the shore TO make his
Escape. A storm was gathering and not
! soul could be seen. The waters tossed
heavy log upOu the shore and Curry
teized it and rolled IL 10 one side. From
board fence near By the convict ripped
N four plankS and dashed them together
Nth rope and Seawecd picked up from
be shore He used no nails lest he
4hOuld attract the attention Of guards.
facing the boards on the log, he pro-
tpred a long strip of wood, and mount
Rg the rude raft, pushed of from the
bore and padded southwark In the
BORN.
Three times he was thrown of, but
- succeeded in getting on the raft
sain and padded along. He drifted
wn the sound opposite Berrian Is
nd, distance Of ten miles, when he |
Is tossed from his raft and swan to |
shore exhausted. IL then was /
put o'clock In the morning. 1t was
d-forenOOn when Curry hailed three /
n in a row boat, whom he told that /
bad been out rowing and his boat /
ak. The bOatmen took him to the /
The keeper on the island did /
discover Curry's escape until morn
They believed he bad tried to |
pa to City Island, a distance OF .
4|e and-a-half, and finally concluded 1
he had been drowned. Keeper
IAN learned ct the Eighth Regiment
ory where the cOnvict's wife lived.
listed the house with Policeman
ell and found Curry. J.