The state chronicle., 1893-05-19
A Mystery.

CID COAuASO al OiuS OIuS'
evening of April 20th they escaped
The story of the men's escape is like
fiction, how Roehl threw pepper into ,
one guards eyes after cajoling him
to open his cell door; how he then /
throttled him and pressed him up
against Pallister's cell door; how
Pailister then pinioned him while
Roehl secured the guards keys and
revolver and then released Pa!lister;
how the dazed guard, under threat
OF instant death if he cried out, was
then locked into Roehl's cell; how
the escaped murderers then worked
at the roof of the apartment until .
o'clock in the evening, when Guard
Murphy came; how they overpo"-
cred Murphy, took his revolver, and
locked him up as they had Guard
Hulse; how they then offered to let
loose the other murdsrers, Carlyle
Harris among them, which offer was
declined; how they then fnished
their work at the roof, broke
through it, dropped to the ground
from the low building and made Off
in the awful tempest Of wind and
rain which was then raging so furi-
ously that the night will Of itself
long be memorable one with the
| people Who live along the Hudson.
The next heard Of them was the
finding of the body of Roehl in the
River. He had been shot. 4 SO
calibIe pistol bullet had entered
the right side Of the head we'll
around towards the ear, and his
skull mad been cracked by terrific
blow. There was clot Of blood
under the abrasion, and his lungs
indicated that he was already dead
when thrown into the water. 4
few days after that the body of Pal
lister was also found in the river.
The dead man had pistol-shct
wound under his left eye, through
which bullet had penetrated the
brain. The ball, which was of IS
calihre, was found lodged in the
brain near the top Of the head
| That is to say it had penetrated the
brain to q point neac the top of the
hesd
| Nor was this all. The condition
of the lungs and internal organ;
plainly showed that the man had
, not been drowned, but that he Wa
, dead when he fell or was throw,
into the water.
J Every one Of the five chambers o
/ the revolver which Pallister tool
: from Keeper Murphy when be rs
: capped, and which was found in tn
hip pocket Of the trousers On hi
! dead body, was found to be loade-
just as they were when the pistc
+ was transferred from the prison
!, keepers pocket to the pocket # tn
! | escaping murderer.
S It is supposed that Roehl had
} large sum OF money on his perso
! when he escaped. Tie New Yor
s World says: So this much is cleal
: chat Rohel and Pallister are bot
9 dead, and that they probably die
n on the night Of the 10th of Apr
e when they escaped from their prise
n by tricking the either stupid c
: compleisan5 guards who WEI
l. placed over them. But beyon
t this fact and the further fact ths
It they both were net drowned, no,i
Q ing whatever is known. The my;
r terry Of their movements after the
r had passed beyond the prison wall
l, and tie mystery of the ma,
b ner il which they came 70 the
10 tragic end, are IS dense and bin
l. as was the terrible storm that W.
d raging when they went out into t.
e, night after breaking through IL
If roof Of the death-house in whi<
4 they were confined. They, as livir
ir men, were swallowed up in tt
,e dark, tempastuous turmoil of .h
d awful night as com pletely as thoue
1r they had been biotted out of exis
lg ence. We l2now that a hideor
It. tragedy Of some kind was enacte
1e but what was it's nature, whether
1t, was trsgedy of murder or of ST.
se eide or of both, or whether some tn
far corcesled conflict with perso
IL as yet unknown is behind tbe who
re- black business-all this, at the Pre-
of ent moment, at least, is deep, il
or penetrsble mystery"
ag There is now some suggest
of that they were killed BY tn
,i- guards, who concocted the story
as their escape, and threw the bod
to into the river. The mystery is Q
as that will long be of interest ur
Or fully cleared up.
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