Telegram-herald., 1891-02-22
THE GANG ESCAPED
Three Clever Crooks ursek the
Bars and Escape.
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Williams, Winfield and Henry Lock
wood, Who have been committing the
recent barglaries and highway rob
ber.es III this city, were arrested and
locked up In separate oells At police
headquarters. and in les than twe
heurs afterwards every crook Of them
had broken jail and fed.
The abcye paragraph contains the
simpicsl account .. one Of the most re.
msrkAble episodes IN the h.story 4
Kent coaaty crime. During she past
few weeks . series OF crimes, ranging
from petty pilfesing 10 burglary aud
highway robbery. bat all Of them beAT-
ing TO the eve OF the skilled detective
the evidence OF having been committed
by one hand. have followed ons an
other IN quick succession, and the police
have been baftlec, until yesterday, az
all eff orts 10 identify the CRIMINALS. IL
was these three rasosls who bureiarEed
j. {. Iltxgerald's inouse last SUNDAY
night; they who Broke open bodta-
stems show case; they VINO Knocked
down and robbed the man loe,na GA
Elisworth-aye.; thsy ~1o targisrlxea
the Jennings store on Dlsislon-st. fes-
terdsy Detective McCulloch got "A clue
at Hilson's store on fearl-st. that led To
the arrest OF the three allowed named,
who had taken a room ln the ornncii
block. Frank Williams u from Chic
ago, and the Lockwood brothers are
from Cleveland.
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separate cells about o'clock. They
seemed very hilarious from the moment
of their confinement, aud make great
deal OF nolse ~ singing aud dancing.
Some drunken prisoners were also very
NOISY, and the facilities which the NOISE
gave them for operating were well im-
proved. About twenty minutes before
J. clock, Sergeant Webb sat down 20
lunch, and when he went back into the
cell room for & lass OF water, ha pr,s-
oners were al securely Gagged. Ia
| twenty minutes from that time some
persons were brought 10 the station for
the purpose OF identifying the men as
the robbers of foema, and when their
cells were visited, every man OF them
MAS gone. Investigation disclosed ID
state Of things not highly compliment
AIRY to the intelligence OF those who
dictate the sort of cages that prisoners
are kept ia. The place Of confinement
is simply large iron cage, divided NIT
ten compartments called celia. The tar
are made OF small iron tubing Tilted II
their places by screw threaded joints
| The individual hsrs Are about tour an.
one-half feet IN length. The indication
are that the man Williams firsi removed
from the top or the cage one Of these sec
tions Of tubing by unscrewing II. A
any rate. the dislodged bar was no
broken. nor was the thread at the END
at all torn or munlated. AZ soon as
Williams liberated himself. he crawled
up on the top of the cage, and with the
bar which he had disengaged from hs
own cell. he pried open the barr at the
| top of the other cells, and IN thisway be
| freed the whole gang into the corridor.
But there was pretty hDe piece OF
! Jail breaking yet 10 be done. Large
| iron doors still stood between the
rogues and their liberty. Losing not
an instant Of time. they boldly a..
tackled the iron door in the rear. which
leads from the cell room through
stairway 10 the court roops above.
Some internal power must have be-
friended them, for, with the ANAL
piece Of tubing whose weakness had 40
well served their purpose at fret and
| whose strength now wss 30 important
TO them, they broke the bolt Of the bis
iron door, and made their escape up
the stairway into the court room. The
entire time consumed 10 the actual
escape could not have exceed twenty
| minutes, Tor Sergeant Webb bad seen
them within that tme.
The eitire department were at once
aroused, and men were sent into every
part OF the city. and 10 the various
railway stations. Teiegrsms were sent
| IN all directions, and q; - thought that
the ultimate escape of these men will
he impossible. Al an early hour this
morning. Smith and McCuiioch re.
turned from patient search OF the
south yards. hut 10 traces of the futl
tsyes had been caught last night.