Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-28
MURDERERS BREAK OUT Of
SING SING.
PaIlister and ROehl Make a Des-
uerate Break for Life and L1berts

SING DING, Apih
the most daring escapes ever made
from Sing Sing Prison occurred at .
o'clock last night, when Thomas Pal
lister and Frederick W. Roehl, two
condemned murderers who were
awaiting execution in the electric
chair, escaped from the death mousse
One of the men, pulled guard IN
to his cell, robbed him of his plstol
and threatened to kill him with 1t IL
he made an outcry or gave an alarm
John II. Hultz, the guard submitted
Pallister, with the keys taken from
Hultz, released Roehl. Roehl con-
scented to take his chances with Pal-
lister. Carlyle W. Harris had the
same opportunity but refused. 80
did Osmond and Geoghegan, the
other condemned men here.
PLENTY OF TIME TO ESCAPE.
Guards Hultz and John W. Muir
phy. concerned in the escape have
been suspended. The two men, one
of whom was about to be resentenced,
and the other awaiting decision on
an appeal, got out of the prison at
about 8 o'clock last night.
Before they accomplished that
they placed the two guards in cells.
The guards remained there until
almost 6 o'clock this morning. Not
until then were the escapes dis
covered. Both the murders had
ample opportunity to escape in al
most any direction they wished.
STORY OF THE GUARDS.
The story of the escape, as told
by Hultz and Murphy, was to the
effect that Pallister asked Guard
Hultz for his supper and, as the bars
of the cell are so narrow, Hultz
opened the door to pass it in, when
Pallister blinded tho keeper by
throwing some pepper or dirt into
his face.
Pallister, who is powerful fellow,
overcame the keeper, took the keys
of the cells from him and also his
revolver, and, before Hultz realized
it, Pallister had dragged him into
the cell and made him prisoner by
securing the door. Pallister then
unlocked the cell door of Roehl, who
promptly came out and seemed to
have been fully aware Of the plans
for the escape.
KEEPER MURPHY ovERpowERED.
When Keeper Murphy, Hultz' Is
partner in the night death watch,
came in he was suddenly surprised
by the two condemned murders, who
treated him in a manner similar to
the way in which Hultz had been
overpowered. Murphy was soon in
the cell which had just been vacated
by Roehl. His keys and revolver
had been taken from him, and be
was securly locked in cell in the
same manner as Hultz.
Pallister and Roehl then unlocked
the cells of condemned murderers
Carlyle W. Harris, Osmond, the wife
murderer, and Geoghegan, the
Brooklyn murderer. Pallister and
Roehl invited these three men to &C
with them to gain their freedom.
HARRIS REFUSED FREEDOM.
They refused and remained ir
their cells. Harris was in a nervous
condition, as he was Just recovering
from a fit of sickness.
Harris afterward said he saw moth
ing to be gained by escaping, and
as he was an innocent man he ex-
pected to establish this fact fully
some day. His friends hope thai
Harris refusing to take advantage
of the opportunity of escaping will
have some weight with the Cover
nor in deciding his case.
Pallister wanted to kill Murphy
but Roehl insisted that he should mo-
do 30, stating that if he did that h,
(RoehD would kill Pallaster.
Roehl said that Murphy hat
always treated him kindly and tina
he should not be harmed.
THROUGH THE DEATH HOUSE.
Pallister and Roehl then managed
to climb TO the glass skylight in th,
roof of the death house, which the,
quickly smashed and crawlet
through to the roof. They hat
little difficulty then in jumping from
the death house, which is a one
story building.
Before they left the death hous,
Pallister took Keeper Hultz's ha
and shoes. He tore the pold letters