St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
they Love LIBERTY,
A Trio of State Conviets At
tempt to Fly From
the Prison.
Guards With Good Guns, How
ever, Return Them to
Their Cells.
Arrest Of a Mankato Railway
Agent for Alleged En-
beZZlement.
The Eating Of Wild Parsnips
Results in a Death at
Chatffeld.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the Globe
SALTWATER, Mimi, April IA
most daring attempt at escape was made
at the prison at o'clock this afternoon
by Fred Douglas, John c. Davis and
Frank Anderson, three convicts. Guard
Flannery opened the team gate to let
out team hauling load of saw dust.
Just as he opened it he noticed the
three convictS on the opposite side of
the saw dust cart, and as soon as they
had reached the outside they started on
a run, Davis and sAndersOD running up
North Main street, and Douglas to-
ward the river. Quick as 4 flash Flan-
uery pulled his revolver and fired a
shot in the direction of the
two men going north. Both of
them threw up their hands
and surrendered. Guard Flannerg
commanded them to enter the gate,
which they did without moments hes
itatiOn. The gate was locked and Mr..
Flannery started in pursuit of Douglas,
who had by this time secured a COM
Portable start of nearly forty rods. AS he
reached the drying shed owned by the
Minnesota Thresher company, he darted
under it, and his heels barely escaped
being punctured by bullet from Flan-
nery's revolver which went WhiZzing
through the air. Several bystanders
gathered at the building and it was sur
rounded. Douglas remained under the
shed until Deputy Warden Lemon ar
rived and'pulled a timber away from
the wall, making an opening large
enough to admit of his crawling in.
Without f1inching Mr.. Lemon crawled
uuder the shed, and, noticing Douglas
in hiding back of raise in the ground,
he fired a shot from his revolver, the
bullet blowing the dirt into Douglas
face. He finally decided to surrender
and was nabbed by Mr.. Lemon. In
making their exit from their uncOmfOrt-
able position under the shed Douglas at
tempted to play cunning trick on Mr..
Lemon by reaching around to Lemons
hip pocket for his revolver, In order to
get the best of Douglas and subdue HIM
Mr.. Lemon was obliged to strike
him on top of the head with
the butt end of his revolver. He was
hastily marched back to the prison
and taken to the solitary, where he was
adorned with ball and chain, and will
remain strung mp until he decides to
behave. Douglas disposed of, a search
in the shop was made for the other two,
and Anderson was found in the machine
SnOp WlUn hammer III Ills mana pre-
pared to fight. He was quickly .subdued
and marched off to the solitary, where he
was given a dose similar To that i'll
tlicted upon Douglas. Davis was Sc
cured a few minutes afterwards and
was also taken to the solitary,
where all of them will be given
ample time to repent. Fred Douglas
was sent here from Hennepin county a
few years ago OH fifteen years SEN
tence, for bank robbery. During his
stay here he has made three attempts at
| escape, at one time going as far as Du
luth. Davis has served about seven
years of a twenty-one years sentence
for horse stealing, having been sent
here from Hastings. Anderson was re-
ceived at the prison April II, 1889, from
Minneapolis, where he was sentenced
to serve three years and three months
for grand larceny. The men are des-
perate criminals, or they would not
have dared to pass the guard, who was
standing at the gate with revolver at
his side. Douglas has made frequent
threats that he would escape, but no.
body had an idea that he would make
such a cunning break