The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-05
LOCKED THE JAILERS IN
THE NOTORIOUS RILLoRAN AND RUSSELL HOLD UP THE GUARD.

Cover Them With Revolvers and Escape From Ludlow Street Jail-Laughed at the Keopers-killoran and Allen bought to be the Men Who Robbed the New Haven Post Offlce-They Escape in the Crowd.
 New York, July 1.-The three post Of flee robbers, Joseph Killoran. Charles Allen and Harry Russell, escaped this morning from Ludlow street jail.
 The escape was evidently carefully planned,
 The three men were about to take their daily exercise in the yard of the jail.
 Keepers Edward Schneer and Charles Schoen were In the office of the jail at the time the men were coming down stairs.
 As they were passing the office they saw through the glass door of the office the two keepers within. Schneer was sitting down with his back toward the door. Schoen was walking about the room.
 The three men entered the office at the same time. Russell leveled re- volver at the head of Schoen and the two others covered Schneer with their weapons. They threatened to kill the keepers if a single outcry was made. Allen took the keys from Schneer, while the other two still held their revolvers at the head of Schoen.
 With the keys he opened the door leading to the vestibule The three men passed out, closing the door and lock- ing 1t, thus making the keepers prison CTS within. These keys they threw into the vestibule. Allen opened the front door with large brass key and the three men were in the street. They quickly disappeared.
 It was nearly 8 o'clock when Keeper McCabe, who was about to come on duty, found the brass key In the front door of the prison. He opened the door and in the vestibule picked up the keys tossed there by the escaped prisoners They were followed by two policemen At Broome street they separated. going in different directions.
 One of the men was followed into a building on Broome street and chased to the roof, where all trace of him was lost.
 Deputy Warden McCabe said: When I arrived at the jail about o'clock this morning found the brass key to the outer room in the lock. The bunch of prison keys was lying on the floor just inside the door. Schneer, the keeper says that he had just received the keys from Carl Schoen, the night keeper if r. den's office when the three men attack ed them. We have not ascertained yet where they got the revolvers. They have had no visitors since their arrest and the matter remains mystery.
 A general alarm was at once sent out from police headquarters to all police stations announcing the escape.
 Killoran is described as thirty-slx wears old, weighing 15o pounds and dressed in a black suit of clothes and wearing russet leather shoes
 Aliens age is put at forty years ana weight at t90 pounds, and RusselTs age thirty-three years and weight l9o pounds.
 Keeper Schneer tells the story of the escape as follows: T had just entered the iail to relieve Schoen, who was the night keeper. The three prisoners took their exercise in the inner court of the iail between the hours of to 9 o'clock every morning They are sent back to their cells when the other prisoners fake exercise between g and 10 o'clock Just as I entered the door the three prisoners pulled out their revolvers and covered schoen and myself They are big men and very fine looking Hold up your hands,! they shouted at us. sor we'll blow your Dutch heads of At the same time they yanked the bunch of keys to the three outer doors out of my hands. I was frightened badly as looked into the barrels of three loaded revolvers, but shouted Police! Mur- der! Burglars! Help! as loudly as l could. Allen started to unlock the door leading from the hall where the hold up took place, while his comrades still menaced us with their revolvers.
 "A crowd. however. began to gather in Ludlow street as they heard the unusual noise in the jail, and Allen couldn't open the door quick enough. He then, with an oath, smashed the big plate glass and reached through and opened the latch. This let him into the office, with three heavily barred iron doors between him and liberty.
 ''We kept on shouting all the time, as the three desperadoes fattled the big keys in the heavy doors. As they opened the doors they locked them be- hind them, leaving us powerless to fol- low in pursuit.
 "The outer of the three doors they left open, and left the bunch of keys in the lock, as they had no time to do anything else. The crowd had reached great proportions by this time"
 A number of policemen with Rounds man Cotton and Detective Con Sheehan at their head came running up and the prisoners had to make lively tracks up Ludlow street, the crowd and the police right at their heels.
 At Broome street, one block north of the Ludlow street door from which they escaped, the men separated, one keeping on Allen going east on Broone, and Killoran taking the westerly di- rection.
 At Broome and Clinton street, a young man, Louis B. Ostran of 2S6 Broome street, was fast catching up with Allen, when the runner turned upon his pursuer. "Now sneak, or I'll put an air-hole through your heartr' ba coid