Arizona republican., 1891-12-24
,lIING JAIL BREAKING.
pAyE PADOOCK'S REMARKABLE eS-
 CAPE FROM JOLIET.

Ont of Prison-worling Few Minutes at a Timo for Over Two Years.
 section of iron bar was cut from the cell door of Dave Paddock by that re- doubtable knight of the dark lantern and Jimmy" on the occasion of his sen sstional escape from Joliet. For over two years Paddock has schemed and worked to effect his purpose. He was sent up from Rock Island on an eight year term, and was placed at work in one of the shoeshops, where during every minute of the working hours in fine shop he was constantly under the watchful eye of his keeper. There was rot the least chance to plan an escape from the shop. But, not daunted at this. he determined to find some means of getting ont of his cell at night,
 To fully appreciate the difficulty of cutting out of a cell it must be remem- beyed that three times every hour during inc night, at irregular intervals, guard wearing padded slippers-called "sneak shoes" bv the econvicts-makes his rounds, neering into each cell to make sure that all are secure and in bed. Paddock first appropriated a couple of thin bladed shoe knives from his shop, and, concealing them from the guarl, took them to his cell. where, by using one as file, he converted the other into fine steel saw. Then by slow degrees he collected large amount of shoe thread from the same shop. with which he braided the rope All this required months of stealthful work. but in the course of time he had a slender. strong rope, fully fifty feet in length. This he kept carefully hidden in the mattress of his bed.
 Next he began saving the bars on his Ia7ra little at a time. Night after night he watched for the passing of the guard, and as soon as that official was beyond hearing distance he would cut little and then fll up the space with black wax. which he had also obtained from the shoeshop, so that the prying eyes of the guard could not discover by daylight that the door had been tempered with. When the bur had been cut through he carefully wcdged it back into place with small iron staples and bits of lead.
 REMARKABLE CI.EvEREESS.
 He could now get outside of his cell, bu. ,ae hardest work was yet to be done. His cell was located high up on the third tier, some sixty feet away from the tower door through which he hoped t0male his way. Watching his chance, when the night guard was on the op- p0sita side of the block of cells, he re- moved the bar from his door, crawled through the opening, and with all the agility of a cat climbed down the railing from tieT to tier, ran across the corridor to the tower door, and, with a piece of shoema6ers wax, took an impression of the lack, reraining his cell before the guarl appeared on that side of the cell house.
 By careful working he made key out Of lead pipe that plumber had dropped near his workbench in the shop. Sev- eral trips from his cell to the tower door were made during the next few weeks before his key would fit, and then it took him some time to get together enough material to make dummy" to put in his bed to prevent his absence being discovered before he could get be- y0ud reach. On the very day that he intended 10 make his escape, while re- turning from the shop to his cell, he slipped upon an icy stairway and badly spgained his ankle. This almost dis outraged him. His months of anxious toll had come to naught. His scheme would surely be discovered. After three weeks in the prison hospital he was sent back tO work, and when he reached his cell that evening was oyerjoyed to find that his rope, key and dummy" were still safely concealed in the mattress, and everything as he had left it.
 ESCAPE AID CAPTURE.
 Another week elapsed before his ankle would permit his making the attempt The night came, however, and along about midnight he was safe inside th' tower, A single iron bar still stood be tween him and freedom, and it would take long hours of hard work to GU through it. Just as daylight began t' O'eah the bar gave way. The rope nov came into good use, and with its aid h. snpped down upon the prison lawn an' lurued away to the woods that line thu Oluds east of the prison. Here he foun' thicket or underbrush where he la. md all that day, and when darkness came again he got away.
 Ills absence was not discovered iron pnSon until the guard went to unlocl us cell in the morning. This was with Vut doubt the cleverest escape that ha
 ,aRen place at Joliet, and stamped Pad uocS as a genius. Extraordinary effort
 were made for his recapture. Larg
 rewards were offered, and his descriI
 0On was cast broadcast A year later
 was discovered that Paddock had mi'
 "'ss in Chicago. A watch was set O
 Ds' house for several weeks, and sur
 '1'oSn one night Paddock put in an al
 p'afance Captain simon O'Donnell, (
 'ue police department, had the plac
 .UiUunded and the daring convict wa
 .a%h m the tolls, He was taken bac
 " I,s old quarters at the prison, wher
 unalIy completed his sentence, no
 ay"eYer, until he had tried several otht
 o,,ueGes for escape, but he was to
 IIy5oeIy I5 watched to ever again succeed
 Joliet mls) Letter.
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