Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-04-13
Jail Delivery at Greensburg.

The most intense excitement was Great.
ed in Greensburg, Friday night, BY a jail
delivery that was desperately executed Jusi
at dark. Some of the men who escaped
are desperate criminals, and their capture
ia almost certain to involve killing on one
side or the other. 1t was o'clock when
Jailor McCready entered the cell corridor
for the purpose of locking the prisoners II
their cells for the night. His assistant
william Sheany, was behind him. As Nc
Cready stepped inside the corridor doel
Peter Mattern, who has made record al
one of the most desperately vicious prison
ers ever confined in that Jail, jumped from
a cell close to the door and struck Nc
Cready across the back of the head, at the
base of the BRAN, with section OF leao
pine. which had been wrapped in muslin
Tor the double purpose OF giving the wielu-
or better grip and for making Dlo"
| "hold" where delivered better than
smooth piece of pipe, which would oe aP'
TO slip or glance.
The pipe was heavy and Msttern struck
with ali his strength, to kill his man If pos.
sible. McCready went down as 1t he had
been shot through the brain, and In an IN
slant his unconscious figure was IayiEg III
a pool Of blood that poured from the aWiu
cash across his skull. Matten had been
locked in a cell from whict he amDusneo
the taller during the past ten Gays, anu
was supposed to be safely behind the pai
when McCready stepped into the corridor'
As soon es McCready went down the
other prisoners in the plot jumped on nun
and beat him terribly. McSheany, the
deputv warden, m ade q stand to prevent
an escape, and was fighting desperatel..
when Mstten jumped into the melee WIFI
his loaded billy. Only once the weapon
fell on McSheany's skull and he Was
stretched beside McCready, senseless ano
bloody. Then Aatteru and his men de'
liberately ri1ed the pockets OF the Jailer'
took the cell, corridor and outer door key'
and rushed out of the jail.
As the last fugstive poshed out twe
prisoners who had refused to Join IN the
delivery raised an alarm that was Responded
TO at once. and in a very few minutes the
hunt was up and scores OF men were out IL
pursuit. The men who escaped are Pete
Mattern, leader of the gang OF car robbers
Michael German, the Sewickley express
robber; a young fellow named Kelly o.
Scottsdale, charged with robbery; Harry
Owens, also charged with robbery the
others wern Fred Baker, John MCDONALD
Mike Wright and Fred Philips.
In less than an hour Baker, Mcdonald
Wright and Philips were run down, recap
tured and returned in sbackles and hana
cuffs. and dozen or more officers were IL
organized dursuit There were in Jsi
ab out sixty prisoners, five of them coke
region strikers All ceuld have escaped
but most OF them were afraid to 60 out
Matt ern is dangerous character. IL Ia
not known how he procured the pipe o.
how he managed to break the lock OF hi
cell. 1t Is supposed that mysterlon'
visitor who called to see him yesterday
gave him the club. Three weeks ago h'
att empted to saw the bars of his cell, bu
was discovered in time to prevent an es
cape. Then it was told by another prison
or that Mattern intended to shoot the jailel
should he interfere, and the necessary i'm
plem ent to do the shooting was found OF
him.
Doctors were summoned to the jail ant
Nc Creaoy's wounds were dressed. III II
tho ught that no serious results will follow
His clothes were saturated with blood
McS heany was not seriously hurt.