Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-21
DONNELLY IS BACK.
The Man Randall, After Whom He
Went, Gets Five Years in
Saltwater.
Wilson, the Other Man, Is, From
All Accounts, In the Joliet
Penitentiary
The Sheriff Finds Out How the
Men Made Their Escape From
the Jail.
From Fridays Dsily.]

From Fridays Daily.]
Both Get Their Deserts.
Sheriff Donnelly has returned from
Minneapolis without the man Randall
after whom he went, but with the salts
faction of knowing that he (Randall) will
be comfortably lodged in the Saltwater
penitentiary for the next five years, and
that Wilson, who broke Jail at the same
time as did Randall, is probably serving
out a sentence in the penitentiary at
Joliet, III.
Some time ago Sheriff Donne]ly re-
ceived a letter from a person at Elroy,
WIS.,, whose name Mr.. Donnslly wishes
withheld, stating that the writer knew
where the man Randall was, and init.
mating that he would tell for a consider
alton. He wrote several letters in the
same strain, always carefully withhold
ing any information as to Randall's
whereabouts, but requesting that the
sheriff meet him at Minneapolis, when
he would take him to where Randall
was. Finally Mr.. Donnelly wrote the
would-be informer, telling him that if he
knew where Randall was to have him ar
rested and jailed and then wire him
(Donnelly) and he would come after
him, and pay the reward. In response
to this came q telegram saying that tho
man was in Jail, and the sheriff, never
dreaming but that Randall had been ar
rested on the charge of breaking Jail
here, went to Minneapolis after him. On
arriving there, however, he was sur
prised to find that Randall had been TT
rested and indicted On two charges there
for forgery. Had he arrived before the
indictments were made, his requisition
papers would have been honored, but as
it wal he wal too late aud be was forced
to sit in the court room, see the prisoner
a%rraigned, wearing the same suit of
clothes which he stole from the sherif's
wardrobe when he broke Jail, and hear
him sentenced under the name of John
F. Rowan, to five years at Saltwater.
From the same person who kept him
informed as to Randall's whereabouts,
Sheriff Donnelly learned that a man
answering to Wilson's description was
arrested at Elroy, Wis, on an old charge,
and had been sentenced to q term of
years in Joliet, SO he feels that both of
the escaped prisoners are pretty we'll
provided for. He also learned how the
men escaped from the Jail, and he is
particularly pleased as this corroborates
Smiths, the %jailor's story, and exonerates
him from any suspicion. It appears
that q of the prisoners, had what is
known as a hairspring file. The hinges
on the door to the cell in which the men
were confined are upon the inside, and
are in two sections, held together by a
bolt, upon which they revolve and the
door swings. Several days prior to Mr..
Dopnelly's departure for Dickinson, the
men filed off the top of the upper and
bottom of the lower bolt, so that by a
little pushing the Lofts could be re-
moved, the two sections of the hinges
slide from each other and the door be
taken off. On the day of their escape,
they waited till Smith went out to milk
and then commenced operations. It was
their intention to get out and BECOME
before Smith returned, but a hitch in
their proceedings delayed them longer
than they expected, and when they went
to make their exit Smith met them at
the door, was promptly knocked down
and locked in the cell, and the prisoners
after ransacking the house, boarded the
train at this station. One Of them went
directly to Moorhead, and the other left
the train at jamestown, whence he went
south over the j. & S. As the door to
the cell had to be forced to get Smith
out, the prisoners having taken the keys
with them, no attention was paid to the
fling Of the bolts, the sheriff s%upposipp
it vas done by the b~lacksmiths, in fore
ing the door.
Mr.. Donnelly is out of pocket just
$3.50 on the two men, it having cost him
this amount in his endeavor to capture
them. This Is q complete loss, US he
gets no recompense either from the
county or state. He says, however, that
if he is alive when Randall's term OK
pires, he will see that Randall is brought
back to Bismarck and tried on the
charges against him here.
More Trouble.
Peace, as Denny Hannifn says, seems
this year to disturb the minds of all of
the trustees of state institutions. Fol-
lowing the little disagreement in the
penitentiary and agricultural college
board, come a report Of dissenslon in the
North Dakota university boar3, brought
abont by the appointment of Tommy