Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-12-26

self for days in the outskirts Of Polish
hamlet, but eventually made his way to
st. Petersburg. where he found friends who
Strengthened out his toilet and introduced
him TO her imperial majesty the Czarlna
Katherine.
The strongest Jail Of the British empire
is probably Dartmoor prison, in the Devon
highlands, where in 1906 a whole mountain
range was turned into citadel for the de
tention of prisoners of war The place is
now used as a depot for convicts and is
guarded by military sentries in addition to
the keepers proper, but in spite of all pre-
cautions hardly year passes without the
escape of a daredevil who has contrived to
outwit the warden and run the gauntlet of
the sharpshooters.
In 1881 convict escaped in a manner
which for time puzzled the shrewdest de-
tectives of the committee Of investigation.
but which was afterward explained by the
discovery Of tunnel leading from the base
ment of the prison to rubbish heap in the
outworks- The prisoner must have de-
prived himself of sleep for weeks to accom-
plish his work. and the penitentiary ward
ems of Columbus, O., still point out the
spot where number of Confederate officers
dug their way to freedom with incredible
toll
The citizens of Nuremberg point out
place in the walled entertainments OF the
old city moat where the Knight Eppstein
spurred his horse TO a salto mortale and &C
tually reached the opposite bank in time to
eyade his pursuers and save his neck from
the halter. But the most successful Jail
breaker of modern times was probably the
Silesian bandit, Rose, who in succession es-
capped from Spandau, CRANBERRY and Madge-
burg, though the record of his exploits had
made his iailers extra vigilant. In Gran
derry he had forced a plank in the ceiling
of his cell and made his way to the roof,
where one stormy night the sentry on the
ring wall heard a peculiar wailing sound
resembling the intermittent cries of new
born child. After listening for awhile and
trying in vain TO imagine the cause of the
noise he communicated his experience to
another sentry, who likewise succeeded to
hear the strange cries once or twice.
The voice of the storm soon after drowned
all other sounds, and the guards gave up
the hope of solving the mystery that night,
but rememb ered their adventure when the
next morning revealed the fact that the
robber Rose had effected his escape by
means of a rope attached to beam on the
opposite slope of the roof. He had awaited
himself of the noise and darkness of the
stormy night to break through the roof and
reached the road by leap from window
sill of the third story after attracting the
sentries to point at a safe distance from
the scene of his projected venture.
He was recaptured in the house of his in
amorata, and the court then remembered
that the Russians, too, claimed him for a
robbery on the other side of the Polish
frontier. He was accordingly turned over
to the officials of the czar, who sent him to
eastern Siberia, and his countrymen fat
tered themselves with the hope of having
seen the last of him till two years later,
when they were informed of his escape from
the mines of Irkutsk.
In a manner not easy to explain the
dauntless outlaw had evaded the scouts
who pursued him in all directions, made
his way back TO European Russia and
eventually to his native land, where he was
at last killed in a midnight raid on a soil
tary farmstead.