Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-07-24

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e institution, on Sunday morning abou
3 l o'clock. They were incarcerate'
: some months ago on a charge of rob
bing Bertzler,s store at Port Royal.
. It was about l o'clock on Sunds,
morning when Miss Calhoun, tn
l She-iff's daughter and Miss Ritzman
> visiting Miss Calhoun, heard pan
, of glass break aud fall jingling from
! a down stairs window of the jail
The young ladies sprang from thei
bed, and Miss Calhoun hastened t,
inform her father. The sheriff wen
outside Of the !ail and looked at tn.
window and was amazed to sse q bee
cord doubled dangling from bars o,
an upstairs window an hanging do WI
over the window in which the pane
Of glass was broken and then he knew
that the occupants of the cell above
Evans and West-had come down
the rope and accidentally broke Out
the glass the fall of which had wax
ened the young ladies and had made
known the time of escape.
The sheriff hastened upstairs, the
cell was empty, and the large open
ing of IL inches by IA inches in the
heavy up and down and cross bars Of
the window told how the prisoners
had gotten out, let themselves down
to the pavement by the cord of their
bed. The window bars are heavy,
two and half inches one way and
one inch square the other way solid
wrought iron. The saving was skill
fully done as if by mechanic straight
across each bar as if following the
line of straight edge. The saw used
was sharp as is evidenced by the
clean cuts it made through the iron.
The Sheriff speedily aroused neigh
bors, James .McCauley and others
and fastened to look for the escaped
ones. st the river bridge they found
a strange man sitting by George
Heck's saloon. The stranger toll
them that only a few minutes before
they came two strangers hurried by
and that when they caught sight of
him they took the opposite side of
the bridge track as if to avoid him.
Thence the Sheriff fastened to the
railroad. A freight train was Just
starting, he requested railroad men
in the yard to flash their lights over
and between the cars which was done
and two men We're espied lying ON u
car but the train was running and
could not be stopped for search. The
next best thing was then done to send
dispatches in all directions to towns
along the railroad. By the time that
was done freight train had come
into the yard and was at stand still.
The Sheriff looked up the conductor
and requested him to accompany him
in look into the box cars of the
train. In the far end of a box car
they discovered q man.
"Come here" said the sheriff, "and
let me see you, the man came, "you
look like the cousin of Evans, and I
arrest you," said the Sheriff.
EVANS COUSIN
was stranger who visited the Jail
not long after the three men were i'm.
prisoped. The Sheriff and a lawyer
accompanied him. He claimed rela.
tionship but at first Evans did not
recognize the kinship but when the
stranger presented fifty dollars to
the Sheriff for lawyers fee aad poke
of tobacco for the prisoners he recog-
died his cousin. The poke of to-
bacco Was suspicious thing and if
it had been examined at the time
possibly saw might have revealed
itself, but the dangerous chara3ter of
the new arrivals was not as Will un.
derstood then as now.
The man that the Sheriff arrested
in the box car last Sunday looks like
the so-called cousin and also looks
like man who DR.. Banks sent to
Jail for feigning a it and making q
general nuisance Of himshlf about the
Doctors stable last Wednesday. The
character that Banks put in Jail may
easily be remembered when told that
he was the man who was seen in town
in a number of places on Wednesday.
He wore dark clothes, black wide
trimmed hat and had for company a
woman and a girl.
The man that the doctor sent up
was in prison over night. The Sher-
if says his face and the face of the
maa he found in the box car and the
face and form of the cousin who fur
nished the lawyers fee and the poke
of tobocco look much alike. Are
they all one and the same character
and If they are what had they to do
with smuggling the saw and planning
the escape are pertinent questions.
Well, the Sheriff brought the man
who looks like Evans cousin from
the box car to jail, but at first was at
loss to know how to lodge him in a
cell by himself. He did not wish to
place him in with Parker the oply
one of the Port Royal gang left He
hit upon the plan of taking Philip
Rank, who is in Jail for safe keeping
on account of being little off in his
head sometimes and placing him in
the cell with Ed. Parker and place the
box car man in Ranks cell. Rank
was taken into the corridor and the
box car man was duly installed in
Philips cell, then they went to Park
er's cell opened it aud Philip was
about to enter when Parker made
A DESPERATE RUSH
for the corridor runniag against
Rank brushing him aside. Young
Mr.. Calhoun deputy sheriff next re-
ceived the onslaught and in defense
delivered blow with his fist with
such energy upon Parker's head that
he fell back Oh the floor into the cell,