New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-28
POISON HIS WAY TOLIBERTY.
A LIFE CONVICT AT JACKSON. MICH. ES.
CAPES BY TAKING A GUARDS LIFE. :

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LEGGED COMPLETELY IN HIS F1GHT-oNE 3
OF THEM MADE ILL By THE DRUGGED :
DRINK - THE CONVICT. WHO Is
ARMED OvERTAKEN BY A POSSE.
Jackson. Mich, March e7.-R. Irving Latimer. the
Jackson matriclde, escaped from prison here at mid
night last night. after dugging George W. lIaght.
who had charge Of the gate upstairs. Haight died
at a. m. result OF the poison. Captain Maurice
T. Gill and f. G.. Rice. night Keepers under
arrest, charged with being Latmer's accomplices.
Latimer tried to release the prisoners his
cell. but falling in the attemp made his own escape
BY way Of the front gates. lie secured rife and
stock OF ammunition before going Those who know
him say there Is not chance In a thousand OF
taking him alive. There Is the most intense excite.
ment Hundreds OF men have to-day been searching the
city and surrounding country and kilograms about the
escape have been sent all over the state.
telephone message Just received from Concord
says that a posse have Latimer in piece Of woods
near that place. He Is heavily armed, and will make
a desperate resistance.
At about IL 80 O'Clock last night Gill and Latimer
took luncheon together in the administers Office.
although 1t was against the rules for Gill take
convict out OF his CELL Gin has clearly been hood.
winked by Latimer. who has been telling him there
81. 500 buried on island In the state Of Rhode
Island. where Latimers father lived when the
was thirteen years old. Gill taken with this
story, and had Iatimer out to luncheon every night
10 give him details Gill expected to leave prison
In three weeks. Last night Latimer told Gill lot
of stories about the buried fortune.
1t has been learned that Latmer had been In the
habit Of taking up Q cup Of chocolate nearly every
night to gatekeeper Haight. passing 1t through
slide in the grating. Haight drinking the chocolate
with his midnight luncheon. There Is no doubt that
Lamer had planned 70 poison both Haight and Gill.
and that the preparing Of the chocolate at night was
only TO gain their confidence and keep 1t until he
could get some poison Last night Latimer carried
to Haight glass OF lemonade. instead Of chocolate.
and IIaght died In twenty minutes after drinking 1t.
Gill also drank OF the lemonade, and was attacked
with spasms almost instantly. In . few minutes
cry came from the guard room above, which iaight
occupied. 1t evident that Haight was III and
needed help Gilrs condition was SO bad that he
could not go. Latmer said: al will 81 aud whistle
for Dr. Mason.'
"An right; 20 ahead. replied GILL Latmer then
took the keys but, instead Of going for help. he
unlocked the door Of the guardroom, passed through
the gates, and free. He took the prison keys
with him. The exact time at which he left the prison
was II 80 p. m. When Laiimer escaped he had
neither coat nor hat. The prison authorities have
offered d reward for his capture, dead alive.
Night-Guard Rice who arrested at IL o'clock
this morning, directly connected with GIL on
night duty and 1t has been ascertaned that he was
present when Latimer left the hamaster's Office
10 GO upstairs TO see what allied Haight. Rice was
much confused when questioned, and does not cA
plain why he allowed Latimer 10 80 out. Gin says
that IIaight died from heart disease, and that he
had been suffering from that trouble for some unie
lie asserts that IL nearly two hours after his
own attack Of cramps and dizziness when he heard
IIaight fall. lie told Laimer TO take his keys and
unlock the small gate climb the stairs and see what
was the matter with lIaght. LAtimer had no Key
on GIlls bunch which would unlock the upper gate
10 which IInight alone had the keys To open Inc
big gate LatImer took cane from pile icit oy
the guards at night at the foot OF the stairs reached
through the grating and pushed back the lever
Then he took Haights keys. unlocked The small
cate leading downstairs 10 the front ONCE. and
walked out the front door. II liaght swallowed
poison, GIN says, Latimer mrst have sen, mi y ~, 10
lnowlcdges that La,imer has been making chocolate
for IIaight and Cill. and that Latimcr has earr TO
Haights cup up 10 him: Ne also Acknowledges '"e
settled tina, masat a sa iTDm hI pSSh saT
OF Iiaght's body this afternoon uc bf"i r lS'
and heart were found IN perfect cGHc Mn,cn has c"
SEN. TO- Ann Arbor for ANALYSIS. search Of tn"
doctors oce in the priS,S, ua' "Ins xnteS LIQUID
1t believed that from the,n , oo.e' n hn keep
The Iotimer schemes differ materially.
Lnumcr. who Is ltpri'onelr !, one ci G 'e a had
engaged I'm several plots for an uprising OF IN"
n,asnners and once succeeded In introducing "rs'
quantity OF dynamite into The prison. ~, ~ vi" via ,he
tended 10 blow down the walls ana Ir'' MI vi"
convicts The plot discovered, but La'inlDr, ~
though leading spirit in II, was only tempor"rh' W.
prvrd OF his privileges favorie prisoner ,,r in
Iotimcr murdered his mother nj Jackson ran'N ~. ",
the morning OF January 25. 1850. lie evmehuv sno,
her once while she was In bed asleep Ihr %ou md
1xas not fatal and she sprang from her peg anu
attempted TO make her way 10 the wndow, VIII" h 1n
Intention Of calling for help la,,"ir ro hnad Win
bh, moih,r again. and beat her over INC hear S
The butt OF his revolver until she sank 70 IN, nu nd
dead He owned drugstore here AZ me une anu
,ros nr0mincnt I'm society. Ills father had uitN StN
crrl Years previously under suspicious crcums, 10
and tbcre * little doubt that he poisoned by me
snn Irving Latimer Is twenty-siX years on mas u
mns,oche and short sIdewhIskers. weighs 100 pouh"s
and has blue eyes and light complexioh