The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-15

perhaps he should not be the Judge, and
would accept his fate without a murmur.
For a few days the rumor had been
floating about that Young had to leave
his native country to escape punishment
for one or more murders committed there,
and sought safety in the United States,
hiding his identity unde an assumed
name. This he emphatically denied, say
ing that he had never knowingly taken
human life, and if he had killed Steve
Ferguson, he did it when he was drunk,
and without knowing it.
HIS EARLY
Christian Young, or Jung, as it would
be spelled in his native language, was
BORN in Germany, November ii, 1861. His
father was a Frenchman and his mother
Il German. When he was Is years of age
he ran away rom home and embarked as
n common sailor on a sailing vessel, in
which ship he sailed around Cape Horn.
lie afterwards made three other voyages
around Cape Horn each time in II steamer.
While II sailor he visited nearly every
country on the globe, China, Japan,
Australia. Africa, stopping only so long
as an ordinary sailor would. He followed
the sea until Il year and II half before the
killing of Ferguson at Corder, and his
subsequent arrest and incarceration, and
was finally persuaded to give up that
vocation and come to Missouri, where his
father, since dead, n mother resided.
Twice they sent him money to pay his
railroad fare from the Atlantic sea ports,
each time he refusing to leave the ocean.
FINALLY his mother sent him Il ticket from
Philadelphia to Corder, and with this he
came inland. His mother, one brother
and one sister now reside in the new state
OF Washington, one brother remaining ut
Corder. In his new home Chris became II
miner, but got along badly, on account Of
his refusal to join the Knights OF Labor.
This, he said, accounted for much of the
hatred borne toward him by the people OF
Corder. Tie was given To drinking, and
was somewhat quarrelsome when under
the influence of liquor, but was not look
ed upon as II dangerous man.
CAP OF PRISONERS.
In his conversation with the lNTELLI-
aENCER's young man Tuesday evening,
Young threw much light upon the escape
OF the four men, Harrison, Davis, Morey
and Williams, in January, through the
roof of the Jail building. Some of the in
formation has been given heretofore, in Il
letter written by him to Tailor Wade and
published exclusively in these columns at
the time, but there are some additional
facts which the INTELLIGENCER is again
able to lay before its readers. The men
had plenty of money, he said, in ten and
twenty dollar bills, which one of them
had sewn in the front seam OF his panta-
looms, n by drawing u thread the i'm
provlsed purse was easily available. Mrs.
Davis, the wife of one of the men, was
given ten dollars, the bill being placed
between the leaves of u book and passed
to her by the hand OF Mr.. Wade.
While the men were working to effect
their escape from the Jail they We're all
the time after Young to join them. He
couldn't work il very well, he said, and
he wasn't as anxious to escape then as he
hn1 ham otnnn oo hn rxyou lnnHfnO for a
favorable turn from the supreme court.
The four men went on without him, cut
a hole in the ceiling OF the cell and three
of them escaped to the roof. Williams,
however, being n larger man than the
other three, stuck in the hole, and while
Davis, Morey and Harrison were holding
n revel on the roof Williams was calling
for help to go either in or out. His COM
pauions finally pulled him through. The
escape of the four men was quite elabo-
rately portrayed in the next issue of the
INTELLIGENCER.
AN ATTEMPT FoILED.
The unsuccessful attempt at Jail deliv-
cry, made by McCue, Davis n Others
since sent to the penitentiary, was detail.
ed by Young. The bail OF a water bucket
was used to dig u stone in the wall loose
This piece of wire was broken in two, ONT
piece used as a drill to dig out the mortar
and bits of broken stone. The large stone
was finally worked loose, so that it coulC
be moved at any time. The doors were
then sawed open with the ten saws owneC
by some of the inmates. These saws were
kept hid behind the sink in the cell, anC
were covered at such times with plaster
and rubbish. Once the cell was cleanet
out, and Young said the saws must hav,
been washed down the sink, as the.
could not be found afterwards.
1t was ut this point that the attemp
was made to use II young white maj
locked up on q minor charge, and whit
would be released in Il day or two by eX