Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-27
BOLD ESCAPE FROM SING SING.


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the Guards aud Make Their Escape
CARLYLE Harris Refused 70 Join Them
Sis4 SISg, y. u, April 2i.-MurdcreTs
Thomas pallster and Frank Roh!c, ootn
uudrr sentence of death, have escaped
from the condemned cell OF S3hE SiNG
prison. The discovery was mace a S'10
o'clock this morning.
When Guard Gin entered the cell mus
morning al that hour he was astoGishcd |
Al discovering that the two night watch |
men were locked In Pailisters cell, When |
the guards were released they told re-
marAable story
/ Guard lfulge said that at ! o'clock last |
4 night he passed supper into Palllstef. Inc |
4 condemned man threw 4 handful q rep;
/ per In the guards eyes. HG.ze was blinded |
| and Palister rushed on him, took his re.
4 yolyer from him and under threats 81
death forced Hul2e into his tPailisterst
/ cell. first taking the Keys away from ann
| lie then locked HuE2e. ~ the cell ana ua-
/, locked the cell of the other murderer,
Frank R0hle The two murderers then
unlocked the cells Of carlyle W. Harris
! and Osmdnl They invited these TWO %
escape with them, but both Harris and
Osm0nd refused the offer 10 escape
Pallister and Rohle waited Ghtll
4 O'clock, wien Guard murphy came Oh
dutv. As Murphy entered the edrrdor
Falilstcr presented his pistol AZ MWEhy,s
head and taking his keys away FROM hiln,
locked him in Rohle's cell. Pallister took
Guard Hulze's hat and cape and put them
Oh himself, Threatening 70 XIII thegnaFds
If they made amy outcrS, the two muir
derers clan,hercd 10 the top Of the cells
and knocked off the sCattle in the roof,
In this way they got on the roof climbed
down into the yard and made Their escape,
whether BY the river Or over the walls
was not known this morning. he ter
ribie storrn, OF course, facilitated thelf
escape,
AZ soon as the escape was reported
Warden Brown sent out his men 10 scaur
the country. II is supposed that Fallster
had been saving tho pepper gwen nun
with his meals with thenbject OF escaping,
10th the escaped men were dressed in
! dark suits Of TrisOn.made clothes. h9il.e
! wore slippers. Pallster had on the guard
! shoes and cap. 1t is believed that ltohlc IS
P4llistcr and Rohle carried with them
the two reyolyers they took from Guard.
HUE and Murphy. Rohlc y ~ years Old
:. and il q German by birth. Fallister IS an
: lriShman p years Of age.
: at.AKDs SUSPENDED.
4 Guards Ilulze and Murphy have been
II suspended, also Officers Of the Guard
d Gla and Muher. Gin and Maher arr
supposed Ia make the rounds OF ''mur
/. derer7' row and NIL the shops.
Z. EouGE's BROTHER EVIDENTLY aided.
q NEw YoRE, April 2t.--tn connection
with the escape Of the two Cundemhel
e muricter,, Hallister and sohlt, il Leaked
q out that brother ot Rphe arrived u
this city about u days ago from Germany
to with $1,000 which Ruhie had inherited
er The brother, upon ms arrival here, callet
to upon Goldberg the prisoners counsel
ana informed him that lie Was gong Z
to sing sing. After stay OF two days tler
er lie returned this city ana said he WON'T
TO Immediately return to Europe. He be
lieved to have remained in this countr
70 and assisted in his brothers escape.
q SING SING, N. H., April 22.-Pallis
!, ter and R6hlc, the two condemned nun
:" tlarers who escaped from the death hous
n. late THURSDAY ntgAt, are still At larg,
rs The prison officials are Undetermined q
Ia whether the men escaped in sma
or buat OF travelled by land.
ne Warden Brown does not think that
Il small heat could have lived in such
~ storm as that of Thursday night, an
that il the prisoners attempted TO GRO
- the river the boat was sWanped an
he they are probably drowned.
W. The warden was Of the opinion til
+. if the two men did succeed in reachil
- Rockland county, on the opposite SO
~ Of the river, they had no better chan
to escape than they would il they hi
ire, attempted to make their way from Il
Is prison through Westchester county,
the every avenue and road in the county
= being guarded.
mo Word was received at the prison IL
a. morning that Deputy Sheriff Pughtry
IN White Plains, had been informed tn
! in last night two men answering the d
/ scription Of the escaped prisoners II
tied boarded freight train at White Pail