Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-21
Escape of Two Murderers From
Sing Sing Prison.
ARGUMENT NTHEBDWIE MURDERCA
Hundreds of Persons Made Home
less by the Flames.
OTHER TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ESCAPED FROM SING SING.
Guards Surprised and o~crpow~rcd-Csr'
lNle Harri. Refuscd to Go.

Surprised ana oNerrowfreo-tof-
lyle Harris Refused tn Go.
siSo SING. \. Y. April q Murdorers Frank
W. Bohl and Thomas HAllister escaped last
night from Sing Sing prison. The escape took
place between and 2 O'Clock. aud was effected
by the murderers locking Night watchmen ].
II. Huse and James W. Murphy in their cells.
Pallisie- asked Gnard Hulse 60 give him
drink Of milk. and as the bars Of the cell are 40
narrow Hulse opened the door to pass the milk
in. when Pallister grabbed him and disarmed
him. He then showed him in the cell and
locked the door
When Guard Marphy carae in keeper Hulss
was about TO give the alarm. when rallister
threatened TO XII him il he made the least
noise.
Keeper Murphy was thea overpowered BY
Pallister and WAS also dIsarmed and showed into
one of the cells. Under penalty Of death Pal
lister made both keepers keep quiet while he
released Rohl.
Then PaIlister grabbed hat belonging to
Day Guard Derrenbacher, took up the
iron stove shaker and climbed up tho
screen TO scuttle which Is in the cell
ing. They pried the scuttle of and then
they pried the roof of. which is nothing
but pine boards covered with tar paper. Then
they jnmped TO the ground. and. according 20
their footprints, made their way 90 the north
end Of the yard and made their escape. A
rowboat belonging to the prison, together with
falr OF oars. n missing.
THE FLIGHT UNCOVERED.
The first intirnation the principal keeper had
Of the escape was when Keeper Glynn rang the
door bell at 5;45 and told Connaughton that
something was wrong. Connaughton
made his way to the murderers'
cells by the way visitors reners.lly
so and found the guards locked up. Then the
prison officials rang the big bell in the tower.
and called all the guards and keepers to the
prison in order to search for the escaped mur-
derers
Warden Brown says that Palls.er threw pep
per into the guards eyes
CARLYLE HARRIS REFUSED To ESCAPE
pallister and Rohl offered to release the
three other condemned men. Harris, Osmond
and Geoghegan, but they refused TO 60.
Following is description OF the escaped
murderers: Frank Rohl, received December 2.
1892; sentenced 20 be executed for murder:
aged twenty-six; born ia Germany;
occupation, artificial marble worker;
medium complexion, brown eyes, dark
brown hair; about five feet nine inches high;
weight, les pounds; lived when arrested nj 222
jefferson street, New York city; size, medium;
gooi-shaped head, 65S hat; shoes No. 8; scar
near right corner of head; forehead narrow.
but medium height; nedium-hsft eyebrows,
deep-set eyes. high cheekbones. sharp nose.
mediam-heft chin, scar on each cheekbone and
scar move lelt eve, one upper loft SIDE toOtn
gone. on end OF left thumb.
Thos. Pallister. slias Thos. rsllast alias Thos.
Holland. alias John Mccarthy, born in Ireland,
aged rty-seven, occupation laborer, COM
plexion light. eyes gray, hair dark sandy. stature
about feet Az inches, weight about lS3. small
scar on left side OF head near back, three large
scars on top OF head close together. running
back near right crown OF head, forehead has sew
eral scars on it, scar upper lip dot and letters
1T. p" on inside and letter at" and again
at. p" on back Of left forearm. bracelet on
right wrist, bracelet on left wrist and dots on
back Of left hand. Lived ct No. 80 Carmine
street, New York, when arrested.
GUARDS SUSPENDED.
Guards Huass and Murphy have Sssa -
pended, also Oficers of the Guard Giynn and
Msher. Glynn and Maher are supposed 20
make the rounds of murderers' row and al the
shops.
In connection with the escape OF the two
condemned murderers Rohi and Pailisssr %
leaked out this morning that . brother q
Rohl arrived in this city about ten
davs ago from Germany with e7.00O
which Rohl had inherited. The brother
upon his arrival here called upon Goldberg a
Mclaughlin, the prisoners counsel, and in
formed them he was going 10 Sing Sing. After
STAY OF few days there he returned to this
city. and said he would immediatel return 10
Europe He Is believed 70 have remained in
this country and assisted in his brothers ee-
cape.
IT WILL HELP HARRIS
The action of Harris, osmond and Geoghan.
the three condemned murderers who refused
the invitation Of Pallister and Rohl
in their dash for liberty, was highly COM
mended by the prison officials.
Harris afterward said that he saw nothing TO
be gained by escaping. and he was an inno-
cent man he expected TO toestablish this fact fully
some day. 1t is believed that Harris refusing
to take advantage OF the opportunity to escape
will have some weight with the governor in de-