The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-12
BROKE FOR LIBERTY.
John Dryden's Desperate Leap
From a Moving Train.
CAUGHT HIDING IN HOLLOW LOG
on MS ketnsn From waiia walIs TO
AVIAN Appeal. He Takes 20 the
Weeds, bat IL Soon Captured.

niie being brought back 10 this city
Ion, ... TIE state peni,sRiiary at Walla
"a'ia IN charge OF Deputy Sherifs Mon
roc ana Small. City Detective Roberts and
anosses deputy sheriff, John Dryden, un-
osi . hve-year sentence for burglary. made
Ooad Out unsuccessful dash for liberty,
ana ior short time eInded his eapiors
nftse after noon. when the Northern
racine train vas one mile YES, OF Palmer.
she Tour oftcers and their prisoner went
INTO the dining car Cor dinner. and. In or
aef 10 give DRYDEN better chance 10 eat,
the irons were removed from him. De-
'ect.Fe Roberts and Dryden finished their
meal FIRST and started for the SMOKER. Dry
zen IN the lead. They passed through the
aay Coach and were just going into the
smoker when Dryden, who was about eve
.s0s IA advance Of Roberts. noticing that
sns ssoe door OF the vestibule was open.
mace break and jumped from the train.
winch Was going at high rate of speed.
hoDerts made grab for him as he lsaped.
out couldn't reach him. He at once
grabbed the bell cord and gave il such 8
heasy jerk that il broke. The engineer
slowed up. and Roberts jumped of. but
Dryden was nowhere 10 be seen.
Roberts ran back to where Dryden had
landed and found the direction he had
gone BY this time Deputy Sheriff Monroe
had learned what had happened. and
hassened 10 Roberts assistance Dryden
lad at once started for dense thicket of
TIMBER. toward Green river. Going back
along the track, the officers found q num-
Der OF section men at work and they were
pressed into service and stationed along
the track 10 catch Dryden If he should
come out again that way. While Roberts
was engaged in posting the section men
and learning the lay of the land, Monroe
went back TO Palmer and wired Sheriff
Wooiery Of what had occurred. The latter
was about 10 send two more officers 10 the
scene when. at $3.50 O'Clock, he received
another dispatch stating that Dryden had
been recapsured.
After posting the section hands along
the track. Roberts plunged into the woods
on Dryden's trail, aud he had not gone
lar until he came upon q couple of large
iallen trees, one CT which was hollow. The
other, in falling upon the hollow log, had
burst 10 partly open. When he came TO
this and mounted it to look around TO see
II Dryden had concealed himself, he saw
the iatter's hand through the crack in the
broken log and ordered him to come out.
Dryden said nothing and made no move,
whereupon Monroe, who had come up in
the meantime, got down and dragged him
out and again SLAPPED the irons on aim.
Dryden was wet through and covered
with mud and had hurt his shoulder, for
when he leaped from the train he struck
against bulkhead along the track and
an he hra
noticed that his arm hung down by his
side All he said after his recaptnre was
lyon can't blame fellow for trying TO get
away"
Dryden, together with Jack Morgan and
Frank SNOW, was arrested last March by
Officer Faucet on suspicion of having
burglarized the house of Gustave Eden.
holm, who resides at 1907 Front street.
Upon being searched at headquarters Nor.
gan was found TO have large navy re.
volyer and all three of them had burglars
tools on their persons. Another house
was burglarized within block Of Eden
holm's. Dryden, Morgan and Snow were
subsequently tried, found guilty and SEN
fenced to i've years in the penitentiary.
Dryden applied for a new trial, which was
denied him by Judge Humes. He then
appealed to the supreme court. By the
recent decision of the supreme court a
prisoner Is held in the county Jail pending
decision on appeal. and though Dryden
had already been taken to Walla Walla he
was being brought back here to await a
hearing on his appeal. Officer Faucet has
arrested ten, persons on suspicion in the
past year, seven of whom are serving terms
at WaiIa Walia