St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-15
PAIR OF SMOOTH ONES.
Two More of the Mattewan Con-
victs Captured.

victs Captured.
MATTEWAN, N. Y, April IL
Patrick Mcclure and Michael O'Don-
nell, two of the five convicts who
escaped from the Mattewan asylum
last Wednesday night, were captured
at Pine Plains today by Attendant
James Coyle, of the asylum. This
leaves only Perry, for whose arrest
a reward lof $2,250 is offered, and
Davis, who is said to be even more
desperate and daring than the former,
is still at liberty. When Supt. Allison
learned last night that Perry had
broken into a house at HugeSonville
on Thursday might and stolen
quantity of wearing appeared, he at
once dispatched attendants to all
important points north of here At
tendant James Coyle arrived at Pine
Plains last night and stopped at the
hotel, having breakfast this morning.
he went to the station, and was about
to buy a morning paper when he
chanced to look down the track. He
saw mans head protruding from an
empty car, about fifty yards from
where he stood. The head disap-
peared, but not before Coyle recog-
n1zed the man as O'Donnell Going
to the car he fired a shot at random
In 1t. AS he did so another man.
whom he recognized as Mcclure.
jumped out through the opposite
doorway. Coyle then leaped into the
car and arrested O'Donnell, who was
crouchlng In a corner, too broken
uoWn to offer resistance Coyle
pulled the convict out of the car and
look him to the station, leaving him
IN the custody of two boys, while
ne started down the railroad track
IN pursuit of Mcclure, who had by
tnls tune got quite a start on him.
Inc keeper secured the woods for
nfteen minutes before he saw Nc
Gulre again. Then the convict was
standing in an open field on the
border of the woods in a defiant at
titude. Coyle started after him. firing
third shot
If you take me you'll have 70 toka
me dead" Mcguire yelled defia nt1v
II do that" replied Coyle. coming
closer to Mcclure, who, seeing that
capture was inevitable, lay down In
the field and said:
Well, you'll have to carry me anv-
way me- any
Coyle persuaded him to GO neac.-
ably to the. station Coyle then tele-
graphed to the asylum that he had
caught O'Donnell and Mcclure at
noon. Attendants Thomas MeDonaid
and Charles Lacey soon arrived and
tae three attendants. with their prison
ers, arrived at the asylum at abo,,t <
O'Clock. Dr.. Allison had Mcclure and
oDonnell placed in separate rooms.
and he examined each one AT -ereat
length, after which he repeated to the
associated Press reporter what he had
iearhed from them. It appears that
some months ago a number of patients
were employed in scraping the floor of
the south isolation ward, which was
then entirely unoccupied.
FROM Mcclure 1t is learned that the
Iashlon1ng of the keys which freed
the men from their cells was begin
at that time by some patient EMPLOYED
on the Improvement. When Mcclure
was transferred to the south isoIa-
ton ward. together with other pa
tients, he discovered these keys con-
cealed in the rear of this ward. to-
gether with a pair of small fiat files.
about four inches long The partially
filed keys, which had originally been
spoons, as described by Quigley, were
taken possession of by Mcclure, who
has worked for the past six or eight
months, having them tried in the locks
from time to time by one of the pa
tients who had the run of the ward.
Some time ago Mcclure, who is a
Jeweler by trade, broke open the
watchman's box which connects with
the clock in the main office and Sc
cured a. thin piece of steel two inches
long and a quarter of an inch wide.
With his file he made teeth in this
steel, filing him a fine saw, with which
he was enabled to file the wire screen
over the door when the time for
escape came. The tools and screen
were secreted behind the sink when
MCGUIRE was not at work on them.
The rest of McGuires statement,
showing how he left his cell, agrees
exactly with the story told by Quig-
ley after his recapture.