The Washington bee., 1893-04-29
EXIT FROM SING SING
TWO MURoERERs MAKE A SENS.
TlONAl ESCAPE.

Ovsrpowered the Guards, Threw p.
In the Eyes of watohmen Hu,so -
Locked Him I'm q Cen-CsrIyla t.,
Had Chance.
Murderers Thomas Pallister and Fr.0..
w. Rohle, both under sentence of dearb
escaped from the condemned cells in tba
Death House at Sing Sing prison abonf
8 o'clock Thursday night last and bava
not yet been captured. 1t was One ~
the most daring escapes ever made fr,m
Sing Sing prison, and the first escap. Of
a murderer since the electrical death lao
was passed.
Keeper Hulse made the FOLLOWING
statement regarding the escape Of the
two prisoners: About 7,3O last nigb,
Rohle asked me to warm his supper an
the stove in the corridor, saying that he
was not feeling very we'll. did 50. and
the space between the bars of the cell
door being very narrow, opened the
door in order to pass the food in to him
As soon as the door was opened, RobIs
threw some fine stuff into my face. I
do not know whether it was pepper Or
dirt. Rohle then grabbed me by th,
throat and forced me against the bars OF
Pallistsr's cell. Pallister reached
through the bars, grabbed my hands ano
held them behind my back while Rohls
took my revolver and keys away from
me. Rohle then released PaIlistsr and
they marched me into Rohle's cell. No
Q. They then asked the other men if
they wanted to escape, but they all sai1
they did not.
Before escaping Pallister and RohIe
unlocked the cells of condemned muir
dsrers Carlyle w. Harris, Osmond. the
wife murderer, and Geoghan, the Brook.
lyn murderer, and invited these three
men to go with them to gain their free
dom, but they refused and remained in
their cells. Harris was in nervous con.
dition, as he was just recovering from
fit Of sickness.
Pallister and Rohle, after opening the
cells, managed to climb to the skylighl
In the roof of the Death House. which
they quickly smashed and crawled
through onto the roof. After getting
through the glass skylight they had 10
break through the tarred paper roof
of the Death House. This was ac-
complished by Pallister, who was
armed with an iron bar. They ran alois
to the North end of the Death House aut
then jumped down, leaving their fool.
prints in the earth. They had little dift.
Guilty then in jumping from the Death
House, which is only one-story build
ing.
There are no guards on watch outside
of the prison at night and the two con
demnsd murderers made their way dowE
the slope OF bluff from the prison
grounds to the shore, where they easily
obtained row boat which is used by tho
prison officials. In this boat they ars
supposed to have rowed across the river
to some point at or near Nyack OF
Hayefstraw. Before they left the Death
House Pallister took Keeper Hulse's hat
and shoes. He tore the gold Letters
keeper" from the hat. Both murderers
were dressed in dark clothes, as the
prisoners in the Death House do not wear
the prison gafo stripes.
Warden Brown has suspended Keepers
Hulse, Murphy, John Mahsr and Keep
er Flynn. Maher and Flynn were sup
posed to be doing guard duty in and
about the death-house. IE is thought
very strange that the latter heard no
signs of a struggle when Murphy aud
Hulse were overpowered.
Assistant District Attorney McIntyra
of New York, says that Rohle's brother
arrived in this country last week with
$4,000 to effect his release He had sup.
posed the money was to be used in ls-
gal way. Rohle has sworn to kill Mcln-
tyre at the first opportunity.
A terrific hurricane was blowing at the
time Of the escape.