The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-22
THE SING SING ESCAPE.
Possibility That Some Of the 0f1cers
Had Been Bf4bed.
FIVE OF THE KEEPERS SU.PENDED
p .nding an Investigation by the Prison
Authorities -Roshi's rrothcr Came to
This Country with $1,000 The MUIR
derers Not Yet Captured.

SING SING, April 22-Prison keepers
are still securing the country for Thomas
Pallister and Frederick w. Roehl, the con-
demned murderers who escaped from Sing
Sing prison yesterday morning and who
are at large. Each man is dressed In citi-
zen's clothes and each has revolver.
Their capture may not be effected without
bloodshed. The escape was not discovered
until the relief death watch appeared at
the prison to relieve Keepers Hultz and
Murphy, who comprised the night death
watch. Hultz and Murphy were locked
In the cells which had been vacate by
Palister and Roehl.
Hultz and Murphy state that when
Hultz brought Pallisters supper to him,
mt about o'clock Thursday night, Pallis-
ter threw a handful of pepper In the eyes
of Hultz and then knocked him down
Pallister took the keys of the cells from
him and also his revolver and then dragged
him into the cell. after which he secured
the door. Pallister then unlocked the
cell door OF Roehl, and when Keeper Muir
ply, Bultz's partner In the night death
watch. came in, he was surprised by the
two desperadoes.
Reliso ed nj His Revolver and Keys
and locked in another cell. Pallister and
Roehl then unlocked the cells of con-
demned murderers Carlyle w. Harris,
Osmond, the wife murderer, and Geoghe-
gan, the Brooklyn murderer. Pallister
and Roehl invited these three men to go
with them, but they refused Harris
afterward said that be saw nothing TO be
x.e.I hxyo a. l.. I'LL -
refusing to take advantage Of the oppor-
tunity to escape will have some weight
with the governor I'm deciding his applica-
tion for Communication Of sentence.
After Pallister and Roehl had got
through the skylight of the death-house,
they gained the roof and leaped to the
ground. There are no guards outside the
prison at night, and the two murderers
made their way down the slope from the
prison grounds 10 the shore, where they
obtained rowboat, In which boat they
are supposed TO have rowed across the
river to Nyack or Haverstraw.
After hearing all the particulars Warden
Brown suspended Keepers Hulze, Murphy,
John Mahcr and Flynn. Maher and Flynn
were supposed To be doing guard duty in
and about the death house. They say that
they did not hear anything of the escape
tils~oarly in the morning, and did not hear
Murphy and HGlze calling for help. This
Is regarded by the prison officials as
strange, and the conduct of Maher and
Flynn will be thoroughly investigated
Was 1t Put Up Job?"
NEW YORK, April 22.--The police of this
city are on tn. watch for Pallister and
Roenl, the condemned murderers who es-
capped from Sing Sing. There was some
talk in the district attorneys Office, when
the news Of the escape was heard, about a
possible connection between the arrival
last week in shis country Of Roehls
brother with $1,000, which he declared he
would use to liberate the murderer There
were some suggestions OF possible bribery
at Sing Sing. 4. Il. Goldberg, who de-
Tended Roehl, did not seem very much sur
prised. He did not think Pallister had
anything TO do with the making out of the
plan of escape.
''2oehl," said Goldberg, ''is the smartest
man ever tried for murder. He speaks
half dozen languages and writes beauti-
full letter. The idea OF escape, think,
had been in his head for some little time.
On April 12 took his brother Frank up
70 see him. Frank worked In Costa Rico
and came here on the steamship Braunsch-
weiger, working his way as an assistant
to the steward, especially to see his
brother He had with him about $1,000.
81 had the greatest trouble getting him
into the prison. The warden searched him
thoroughly. The same two guards watched
with US during our talk. The thing that
surprises me Is that these guards, who
were men of iron nerve, permitted them
selves to he so overcome.' They were also
Most Negligent During the Interview
between the two brothers When Frank
learned that one of the guards spoke Ger
man, he began talking to the condemned
man in some language none Of us under
stood The guards tried at first to stop
this, but they kept 1t up nevertheless.
Frank Roehl had two large-sized pho
tographs in his pocket which he gave his
brother after one had been examined. The
second picture was not examined. 1t was
large enough to hold n quantity of pepper,
money or anything else. Roehl's brother
left the city after he saw him, on the
Braunchweiger, for the other side, and
should arrive there today"
Roehl killed his friend, Frank Paulsen,
. grand army man, in horrible manner,
In the latter's room, at 139 Hester street.
Pallister murdered Adam Kane, a prom
lnent policeman, last April.
Nyack Folks Hadn't Heard the News.
NyAcK, N. Y, April 22--It is believed
that Thomas Pallister was seen in this
region, and the woods In this vicinity are
being secured for him. A man answering
his description was seen here before the
news Of his escape reached this place and
his nervous actions attracted attention.
He has disappeared.