Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
Mr.. RYAN,, HE SKIPPED.
Michael Ryan, a Ten-Year Convict,
skips From the Hospital
Last Night.
Just Over a Surgical Operation Hi
Right Leg Is Still Cut Up and
Bandaged.
Cannot Travel and Either Struck q
Freight Train Or Is Still In
Hiding.
Skipped.

Michael Ryan, a convict at the state
penltentiary, who was sent up from
Grand Forks in 1892, for ten years, fol
an attack upon a policeman there, is not
where he should be. In fact, he has
not been at the ~penitentiary for several
days, for some time ago he was brought
in from that place to the hospital here,
for a surgical operation, to remove a
growth on bis leg, which was becoming
so serious as to render him lame, and
unable to walk. The operation was per-
formed, the growth removed, and a cash
remained, where the knives of the sur
geons had made missions. Sunday night,
Ryan got up from the bed on which he
has lain since the operation, and skipped.
He is in bad condition to make an at
tempt to escape, for any violent exertion
will tear open the wound in his leg, and
leave him in a condition which is likely
to result seriously for him. It is be-
lieved from his condition, that he has
either caught a freight train out OF town,
or is still in hiding somewhere in the
city.
Ryan was attired in the regular striped
prison clothing when he made his es-
cape. He left his vest behind him, and
may have managed TO change his other
clothing. He is about 20 years of age, 5
feet 2 inches tall, and his right leg is
shorter than his left, so that he walks
lame. The fact that he has just under
gone an operation will cripple him, and
it seen, he can be at once recognized.
The penitentiary authorities offer a re-
ward Of $50 for his capture.
Fro. a Tuesdays Daily
A telegram received by Warden N. F.
Boucher this morning from the chief Of
police at Jamestown announces the cap
ture of Michael Ryan, the convict who
escaped from the hospital night before
last. AS was expected, Ryan must have
caught a convenient freight train on the
night of his escape, and has made his
way as far as Jamestown, trusting to
luck to escape from there unnoticed.
He will be brought back to the city on
No. !, tomorrow. .
From Wednesdays Daily.]
Michael Ryan is again behind the
walls of the ~penitent:ary, whence he has
been missing for several days. Warden
Boucher brought him in from James,
town this morning, and Ryan limped
along the platform, seemingly not at all
discounted at the failure of his attempt
to escape.
The prisoner seems none the worse
physically, from his exposure, and the
wound in his leg, where the surgical
operation was performed is not in such
bad condition as was expected it might
be. One or two of the stitches we're
pulled out, but other than this, the cut
has not grown materially worse.
Ryan says that when he left the hosp1-
tai Sunday night, he caught a vest
bound train and rode as far as the
bridge. There he waited, caught an
eastbound train, and rode to Dawson.
He staid about Dawson all day Monday,
jumped another train, got as far as San.
born, where he was put off the train,
and arrested by persons having seer the
offer of reward. When found, he had
on q dark colored coat, and q pair Of
overalls over his striped trowsers. II
tried as bard as I could to get away" be
says, "but couldn't make it"
Hoods Pills do not purge, pain or
grippe, but act promptly, easily and eff
GENTLY.
The fire department vas out for in
spection Monday. The alarm rang
shortly before 2 o'clock, an6 the several
companies responded promptly, and in
numbers sufficient to extinguish any
blaze which might have been burning.
There was about forty or fifty fremen
present, together with hose carts, ladder
trucks, apparatus, etc. A ladder was
successfully hoisted to the sixth story Of
the opera house block, several lines Of
hose were laid, and all of the work done
with neatness and dispatch. After this,
the apparatus was inspected, and found
to be in good shape. The supply Of hose
is greater now than it has been for some
time, there being 1900 feet of serviceable
hose on hand.
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Impure water, the cause Of so much
ill health, is made harmless by adding a
little Angostura Bitters. Manufactured
by DR.. j. G. B. Slegert & Sons. At all
druggists.
Snakes.
The seaEon for snake stories has come,
and the snakes seem to have come with
it. The first story Of the season is being
discussed, and is not the relation OF any
popularity of any certain snake, but is
merely an account of the number Of
serpents to be seen on the river bottom,
and the adjacent hill sides a few miles
beyond Oscar Wards farm. From re-
ports, and reliable reports. too, the place
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