The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-25
MADE THEIR ESCAPE.
The Murderers of Messenger Saunders Break


Orlando. Fla, October 22.-The train rob
bers Futch and Floyd, the two who CON
fessed being implicated in tho scheme by
which Express Messenger Saunders lost
his life last June, escaped last night. There
are two cages in the Jail, the upper one hay
ing been occupied by the men who escaped;
the lower one by other men accused of
train robbery and by about a dozen ne
groes. Some time in the night the two prls-
oners succeeded in opening the door OF their
cage, made a hole in the brick wall at
point where the water pipe passed through
below the window. About daybreak the
jailers attention was attracted by the
shouts from one of the prisoners and go
ing to the cage he found the men had gone
1T is not believed they had money, weapons,
or any outside assistance, but that they
acted by the advice of their attorney. stat.
ford, another prisoner, who is accused OF
being Implicated in the robbery, has told
what little he knows about the necessary
keys from melted shot. He did not know
how he got tie shot He said that they
offered some time ago to take with them but
he refused.
There is no clue to the direction which
they took. Deputy Sheriff Pickett once
gave Floyd some shot to use for medicine,
and they could not be found in his cell.
Where Is Perry
Auburn n. Y. October EFF there was
an inmate of Auburn prison who was sub
1eCt0u 10 more IMAM usual SuINtllitlHcS III
that institution it was Oliver Curtis Perry,
the bold express robber, who was recently
sentenced in Lyons TO half century De
hind prison bars. The prison officers have
used every precautIOn against the escape
of their most dangerous prisoner, and yet
he managed to escape from his cell this al
ternoon and he is now either II free man or
else hidden III some nook or corner OIL lhe
large yard. The entire prison force IS DO
ing duty tonight to guard against ms escape
il perchance he has not already scaled the
walls
Several months ago Perry was sent to the
prisott,dunseon for the attempted murder
of BeH ier, the Utica desperate. lis splr-
il wa4not broken, however, by this heroic
treating Int and he was placed III q screen
cell, frnm which he has never been remover
except under charge of two keepers
A careful examination has been made OF
| his ce'b each day and the utmost precau-
ton h! been taken to prevent od ms escape cape
This" afternoon at 2:l5 O'Clock Keeper
| Willard an eX-assemblyman from st. Lazy
renee county, who is III charge OF the north
! wing Of the prison, looked III upon Kerry
and found everything III order. Nhen lhe
| time came, threequarters of an hour later,
| for locking up the other conVlctS VINO WORK
| in thc shop, it was discovered that Perry 5
! cell was vacant. This astounding discovery
was co12municated TO the warden ana
| Agent Durston, and an investigation was
| at once instituted.
1t was tounG llaG erry nitu aus " ioiG
through the rear OF his cell into the cell OF
! another convict who was at work Ill the
tailor STOP. Perry had crawled through
the the hole and as the door of the adjacent
cell was open he gained the corridor and
was soon outside ;he walls of the wing
The instrument used in digging out the
mortar IN the inch-thicl partition was a
small tin spoon which was left i'll the cell
II MUSE have taken him several days tE
completes.his preparation and it is a mystery
how hiSanovements escaped the eye OF his
keeperss
ThereSnrc evidences that Perry recelvet3
some MSp from the convict in the next cell