Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-31
DID NOT GET AWAY
Three jackson ConUcts Make
Break for Liberty.
TWO or The TRIO SHOT DOWN
E3ea1s Hanflsys iona DAVIS sad Ligs
EaaaTt Scaisd Tue Wals, but
Were Rscaprured.
Two or The TRIO SHOT DOW

JAcRs8z, Aug. 30.-Ihere was quite
tLunult ca the west PRISON sal this
morning Iust az the conycts were being
marched - the shops. EdEaEd Hunt
ley, a tNenry-year Detroit burglar
Joan DAVIS, nFe-ysar burglar from
EsiamazoO, ana '-Llgs" BuAard, sent
from Detroit for siK years Tor assault
with attempt 70 Kill, tried 70 sseape b.
climbing the prison wall. Huntley and
DaVis we're shot, probably fatally, aad
Billiard gave himself up.
The bess advantage Vas taken Of time
aad circumstances by tas desperate
trio. They had secrsted 4 ladder III
sds tue val the night before Keeper
Case saw Hgntley and Billiard make
FIR the wall. They ran % the south
corner where DAVIS Joined them. The
tbree cOuVcts tneu placed the ladder
against the val and DAVIS ran Gp. lie
threw stones az the guard, hut as ne
advanced Guard Clark nred three times
st gns men, bat missed. his gun
then failed % 20 OF. inside Guard
Prangnan attempted - pull the
ladder down, when Huntley rushed 81
him With knfe swearing, Il Will cut
your heart OUT Prangman, not be-
log armed, ran. The conylcts then
stormed tine guard hOus on the wall,
inside Of winch vas Guard Clarke.
They attempted 20 batter in the door 20
XII Clarke and secure hls gun when,
seeing all three guards coming. Hunt
ley jumped down outside the wall and
started to run. By TINS time Clarke
haa pat new cartridges 10 nis gun, and
began nrIng again. lie struck Huntley
twice. Guard Freeman came up at
tns junction and brought Davis down
with a ball n bis left hp. and be fell
from the wall. Billiard then threw up
ms hands and was nAudcuifed and
tg0ugnE Id. Huntiey and DAVIS were
taken ~ the hosp "a, aad the doctors
say neither can i've. Billiard parents
All brothers reside here. In August
II .ts year Huntley and Davis both
escaped ~ climbing the walls. Hunt
lsy WAS ECcaptured ia about two
months and DAVIS was extradited from
Canada.
Records Of Huntiey aud Billiard
Warden Davis said: "rhese three
eonwcts are the worst ones inside the
walls. They have given Us trouble
CtlklNa4ty. hAlLlcy y tee most ue--
peTate OF the lot, and would as soon
Kill As took st a man. Davis "a the
cuuningist and does the planning. We
have been watching them constantly
for months From what the doctors
Say, 3, seems likely their attempts 10
escape are ended"
Edward Huntley IS a native of How
ell. Mich, and il about 2S years OF age.
He has served several terms for var
fOus Offenses, ana was regarded as a
hardened criminal. The CRIME
for which he received a twenty-year
sentence IN April. 1888, was the bur
glary Of Edmund Austin's dwelling,
No. % Charlotte avenue, Detroit. on
the night of March p. Mathew MOyna-
han was his companion on the occasion
and Pataolman Mcmillan was shot and
seriously wounded by Moynahan, VINO
received a twenty five-year sentence.
'Lige Billiard Is 4 well known colOred
crook. On March %. 1891. ne shot and
Dangerously wounded "SOnny" White,
g. whom Bertha Mcpherson aimed las;
Saturday night, and was convicted IN
the recorders court, Detroit, of assault
with intent 10 Kill. lie was sentenced
May ID, 1891, to five years IN Jackson.