Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-17

A Hindoo GETAWAY Who Was Really Able
and Could Give MoSt Men Poin,s.
For some months Raojee kOh. no
torious robber behaved well His de
voted wife then appeared and peti
toned for some jewels, which she as
serted were her own property Any
how. she loitered about, and II Is said
she had an interview with him
Whether she helped OF not in what
happened afterward is best known to
those who must have assisted our na
tive Jack Sheppard in his wonderful
escape II is asserted that at p. IN.
he was locked up in one of the solitary
cells, which had an iron barred door
and walls sixteen feet high, with bat
ten and Mangalore tiled roof. The
next luurning 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 two feet
long, which is usually used for the
weaving weft To this was knotted
tape from his pyjama AT the end of
the tape he is supposed to have tied his
cap with little mud in it, and had ad
roitly thrown II so as to pass between
the beam of the roof and the tiles BY
little shaking the weighted cap
brought down this end of the rope with
in reach When all is quiet he appears.
or is said to have swarIned up the rope
and most professionally removed the
heavy tiles, placing them carefully one
on top of the other When the hole
was sufficient to admit his body he got
through and drew the rope after him
to assist in getting down from the roof
When this feat was accomplished he
had to circumvent the watchers and
clear the inner and outer walls and pass
the sentries. Nothing daunted, he ap-
pears to have made for the central
tower by getting out of his own ward,
wriggled into the hospital ward and
made for the outer ward at the back of
the hospital Here he placed an iron
pot against the wall, but found he was
too short to reach the top with its aid,
SO went to the building and wrenched
of one of the shutters of window,
thereby procuring nails, which he fixed
In the wall to assist in getting on the
top. This was easily accomplished. To
descend on the other side was nothing
for him, but the next question was a
more serious one--that was, surmount.
ing the outer wall, which varied from
eighteen to twenty feet in height,
Even this had been thought of as
he walked half around the Jail to the
blacksmith's shop situated between
the outer and inner walls, where he
forced open the chest, armed himself
with an implement sufficient for his
purpose, and next proceeded to the
superintendent Office, which is next to
the sepoys' guard room. The paddock
offered little resistance. The contents
of the prisoners property box were soon
ransacked. Appropriatlng forty rupees
in 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
sentinel, and at the same time working
through the wall with his blacksmiths
implement during the interval between
the sentry's visits,
At lest, when all but through, his
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 to
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 that
way. Allahabad Qndia) Pioneer.