The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-09-26
Some OF the Most Desperate Prisoner
In the Jail at Rochester, N. Y,
Escape.
They Had Procured Saw and Cut
Their Way to Lib.
erty.
Apaches Kill Family and Run On
Considerable of Their
Stock.

ROCHESTER,, N. T., Sept. 26.--At 6
o'clock a. m. Jafler John Cawtheria un-
locked the door into the airing room OF
the Monroe county Jail and made the
startling discovery that seven of the
most noted and desperate prisoners that
We're confined for safe-keeping within
the walls OF that institution had made
their escape. On entering the airing
room INTO which the hall ON first floor
opens he noticed that cell No. was
standing a3ar. The cell had been occu-
pied by Clarence Tear. but he was no
wnere TO be seen and the confused con-
dltion of bedclothing and contents of
the cell showed that the men had
broken away from restraint. Jailer
Cawtheria at once gave the alarm and
Sheriff Davy and the deputies residing
at the jail were soon in the airing room.
Then the tour of investigation COM
menced. 1t was not known as vet that
Tear had made his escape from the
building, or that more of the iail birds
Were ont of their cells.
After stopping to look at Tears empty
cell the party went hurriedly along the
corridors arousing the occupants of each
cell to make sure that they, too, had
not broken ont into the body Of the Jail.
The upper corridors were found quiet
and the prisoners seemed to all have
been peacefully sleeping.
On the first floor, however. it was diff
ferent. Cell No. /, the second below
Tears was locked, but its former occu-
pant, the well known criminal Eugene
DAY, was not within. In No. A. where
Richard Gardiner was located, the bed
clothing was covered neatly and care
fully over a dumy. Nothing of
the prisoners was to be seen
and the sheriff and deputies pro-
ceeded with care, not knowing
but that the prisoners had planned an
organized break which contemplated
the killing of the first men in the cor
ndors and taking their keys from them,
as was attempted some weeks ago.
Cells No, and D, in which Robert
Colbrook and James Crawford, con-
>victed OF robbery, had been kept, were
locked, but empty.
As the party proceeded on their tour
OF examination they were greeted by
taunts from the prisoners, who looked
from the bars of their cells and the
sheriff was now fully aware that the
Jail break had been of most serious
character, but it was hoped that the
men in the lower gallery behind the tier
OF cells had failed to make their escape
from the building.
John Davis, of No. 25, had also put a
dummy in his cot, while John Smith,
charged with robbery, who had been
confined in No. 26, was gone, and his
room showed that he had not slept in his
cot at all.
The other prisoners were found in
their proper cells. The party went eau
tiously to the lower gallery and. on
ronndinga corner of the gallery at the
end OF the building the iron cased win
dow was found to be open and two bars
sawed. On the floor lay rip saw and
this told the story. When the men
reached the outside of the building they
were then obliged to drop about twenty
feet. This landed them in the yard of
the Jail and they were obliged to scale
fifteen foot wall, which was q small
matter to men who had escaped from a
portion of the Monroe county Jail from
which a prisoner never before gained
his liberty by cutting his way ont.