The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-15
BROKE JAIL IN JERSEY CITY.
TWo BURGLARS AND 4 PICHPocKET
RBGSIN THEIR FREEDOM

Very Evident How Two Escaped, but How
DID the THIRD Get Through the Bath
room skJiiEht OF the Hudson County Jauf
George Morrow. alias George Morrell, and
Frederick Miller burglars. and Henry Talbot.
q pickpocket. escaped from the Hudson county
jail In Jersey City in broad daylight yesterday
afternoon. The prisoners were under sentence
and awaiting removal TO the State prison
Jailer Davis and his assistants. after making
thorough Investigation. cannot understand
how the escape was accomplished without
being observed By somebody.
The three prisoners occupied cells on the
lower floor OF the fan. At 2 o'clock Yesterday
Afternoon all the bfisoncrs received the usual
freedom Of the corridors for exercise. At 4
o'clock. when the mailman gave the signal for
the prisoners to return to their cells. Morrow.
Talbot. and Miller were missing. An alarm
was given at once and thorough search made.
but they could not DO found.
An Investigation followed. and IL was discov-
cred that they had made their escape through
the roof OF the bathroom. The bathroom Is
the place to which every prisoner who has
ever ESCAPED or attem pied to escape from the
county Jail has directed his efforts. IL Is a
brick extension on the south side OF the jail.
The room is 12x10 feet, and the ceiling is IL
feet high. There are two iron barred windows
in the south wall looking into the wash house
and an iron-barred skylght In the roof
' vas through this skylght that the pris-
ol.jrs made their way to freedom. The bath
room has been in the hands OF painters. and
there was nothing in It last night when a SUN
reporter examined It. but a broken steplndder,
barrel lying on It's side. half filled with saw
dust. and some paint pots. The paint pots had
been upset and the floor was besmeared with
paint.
A heavy iron door with strong bolts and bars
separates the room from the jail. but 1t 10 kept
closed only when the prisoners are locked In
tho cells. Two circular iron bars In the sky
light. ono OF which had been sawed and the
other rarity wrenched of. showed which way
the prisoners had made their exit The par
tial removal OF these bars made an aperture
large enough for an ordinary-szed man to
It 10 Sappossd that the .stspladdor was
Of the prisoners held 1t In position while the
third climbed up to the top OF 1t and worked
Jailer Davis could understand how two OF the
men got out. but he was puzzled about the
The stepladder. being broken, could not
stand alone in the middle Of the ioor. and the
ceiling is too high for the others to have
found on the roof, nor in the, Jail yard. Il
the prisoners would have taken the trouble to
carry 1t away with them.
man could have escaped was to place the step step
ladder against the north wal. step on gas
f t tb sh, S2s Snd bep II dbsGs 9s
greater chance Of falling to the fioor, '' wan "
thsir Work auicEy, They We're seen ff teen
mtnutes before their escape was discovered.
a sick prisoner. beiivss he saw them about ten
minutes before 4 O'Clock. 1t is surprising
at work. Jailer Davis thinks that some OF " the
others must have seen them. but were afraid
to give an alarm because tho men are known
The jeil keepers have, not been in the habit
OF keeping close watch on the prisoners DUR
ing the exercise hours because they never had
break Jail in broad daylight
Morrow is q brother Of "Butch" Morrow a
we'll known criminal. and has already spent a
u. while he and confederate were attempt
ing to break into Henry Ranken's saloon at
e shs1
fed; Morrows companion fired shot at
The policeman did not have his revolver
with him, and could not return the fire: Nor
row was indicted under the name OF Morrell
glars tools Ia his Dosssssion: The law Of New
Jersey makes the possession Of burglars
The ppso S was eonVcted a1 on both indIc.-
ments and sentenced to State prison for fifteen
years for having the tools in his possession,
and five years for attempted burglary, both
terms TO run together. Morre!l is machinist,
20years old, and, when, out Of prison. lives at
24l Henderson street. Jersey City
Talbot IL q shoemaker. ~ years old, and
gave his residence as ~ Sands street Brook
lyn. He stole a watch from AlvA johnson OF
Union Hill while riding In a car on the North
Hudson County Elevated Railroad on Decem-
Der & He was under sentence Of two years
and half In State prison.
Miller is one OF three thieves who. on the
dow Of Edward Fox's iewelry;store in Bergen-
line avenue, Union Hill, and seized a lot OF
watches and iewelry. lie was captured at the
tence.was also two and half years in state
prison.
The prisoners were sentenced last Thursday
by Judge HudsDeth in tho General Sessions
Court and would probably have been TAX en- to
Trenton to-day or tomorrow II they had not
escaped.