Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-03-09
IT IN THEIR CELLS
viCts Supplied With
Saws and Tools.

Saws and Tools.
I'd STATE OF AFFAIRS.
|ussell Personally Takes Charge
Of Charlestown Prison.
|oN. March 9.-Still the threat OF
tea wholesome release through
wing up of the Charlestown prison
the fear that still hangs over the
lized institution.
nvicts were seen lowering about
the dark walls along Rutherford
and the railroad track last night
bf the most desperate criminals
to the officers of the institution.
some arrangement planned between
on thC inside and these men on
|ide spoiled by the fact that the
re confined in their separate cells
IN being released for supperp This
pinion of the guards on duty last
IN Lowering returned last evening,
bo many words characterizes the
p that has developed as merely a
per riot"
le strong hand Of the governor OF
lusetts has taken hold of the
own state prison, aud already
d CONSERVATION has been resolved
Order and Discipline.
ery badly the institution needed
ng hand-the warden himself ad-
t.
the men locked In their cells,
be prison from basement to ridge
secure everything that has no
here" Those were his orders.
risoners themselves Immediately
fleet Of the presence Of a man in
7, and although subjected to the
treatment of being kept in their
lay were unusually docile. In the
. Deputy Warden Huckins, with
ten men carrying out the orders
vernon, were searching the bed
the repair shop. The result of
h, which Is only the beginning of
consume two weeks with the
)rce, was
rtliLg to the Last Degree.
be any doubt remaining with
~ TO the necessity of a thorough
the order Of things at the prison,
hing party's discoveries should
dismiss IL.
t5o'clock the deputy warden with
led into the guardroom bringing
a number of nondescript blud-
Eether with no less than half
tcksaws..
tired and worried and worn,
ackins said:
arched the bed shop, the repair
a part OF the lumber room. We
se things. almost all of them, in
op. They Were concealed in diff
Pes. found none of them my
ne men came upon them at DIFF
es."
half dozen of these saws were
icy are made of very thin steel,
hands of a determined man
through a prison bar with 10
Fork and almost without noise.
these heavy nut and screw
a piece of gaspipe, forming to-
very effective jackscrew, was
le repair shop. The thing would
asst five pounds. And these, the
self stated,
Were but a Sample
expected to find in the prison
pt through.
you any direct evidence that
y came over the prison wall9"
9 had one instance where it
quite over. The guard one
lnd neat cardigan jacket ly-
walk on top of the wall. Sewed
was a revolver, just such
taken from the prisoners. 1t
brown up there during the
anded on top instead Of falling
ant tell how many may have
he same way.
Festel day there was an air of
excitement about the prison,
ID with expectation looking
ng TO drop-or explode. At
ais some prisoner would utter
b would be taken up by one
r and pass from tier to tier,
|e echoed back in turns by the
of the prison.
however. and again In the
he supper hour, there was
A General Howl.
=" The display Of what could
his regard, however, was re-
evening.
day the customary procession
He'd: men and women with
the prisoners, and each de-
erview. In every case, how
IRE told, mo visitors could be
le today-and not for many
ri was at last received that
ges of South Deerfield, briga-
Pf the first brigade, had been
arden, there was a running
ption es TO the manner of man
At the head of the place. IL
Y accepted that there would
n methods and that a much
would be held over the pris-
has been the practice Ut the
en-.
Governor Ru' cell yesterday
a most calming effect after
he day before.
r Attempted Murder.
Mass, March frederick
4 Vbu stabbed James Ino alias