Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-15
TWO OTHERS CAPTURED
Mcclure and O'Donnell Back Tn
 Matteawan Again.
WERE RUN DOWN BY KEEPER DOYLE
Of the Five Convicts Who Escaped From tho Asylum Last Wednesday Night Ferry and Davis Are Now the Only Ones Freo. No Definite News of the Train Robbcr.

the five convicts who os"apCd from the 1 Mattoawan asylum last "Wednesday nj rAt wore captured at Pino Plains by Attend. i ant James Coylc of tho asylum. This ! leaves only Perry. for whose arrest a reward | of S2, 25O Is offered, and Davis who Is said l to be ovon moro desperate and daring than | the former. still at liberty. When Superintendent Allison learned | Saturday night that Perry had broken in- | l to house at Hughsonvillo on Thursday night and stolen quantity of wearing ap- parel, he at onco dispatched attendants to all important points north of hero, think ing tho train robber and perhaps also his pals had gono in that direction. Attendant James Coyle who with two other attendants had bcen at Danbury, | was directed to proceed at once to Pine Plains, which is 10 miles northeast of this place, at the junction of the Newburg | Dutchcss and Connecticut and the Phila- dolphia Reading and New England rail | roads. Coylo arrived at Pine Plains last | Saturday and stopped at tho hotel. Hay ing brcakfastcd Sunday morning, he went | to the station and was about to buy | morning paper from newsboy when he | chanced to look down tho track. He saw | mans head protruding from an empty hay car about 90 yards from where he stood. Tho head disappeared but not be- fore Coylc recognized tho man as O'Don- | nell.
 Going to tho open car door, he fired | shot from his revolver at random into the | car. As he did so another man, whom he recognized as McGuire, jumped out through | tho opposite doorway. Coyle then leaped | into the car and arrested O'Donnell, who was crouching in a corner, too broken | down to offer resistance.
 The Chase After Mcclure.
 Coyle pulled tho convict out of tho car | and took him into the station, leaving him | in the custody of two boys while he start | cd down the railroad track in pursuit of | McGuire, who had by this time got quite a start on him. Coyle gained on the tired | convict for about half a mile and fired an | othor shot. Ho would have ovortaken him | but for a curve in the track, on account of | which McCiuiro was lost sight of. As soon us hc rounded tho curve the fugitive took | to the woods, which border tho track on | both sides.
 The pistol shot attracted a crowd of boys, who joined in the chase and some of whom saw McGuirc go into tho woods and told Coylo. Tho keeper secured the woods for l5 minutes before he saw McGuire again. | Thcn the convict was standing in an open field on the borders of the woods in dea- ant attitude. Coyle started after him, fir ing a third shot.
 "If you tako mo, you'll havo to take mo dond!" McGuiro yelled dctiantly.
 m do that replied Coyle coming closo to MoCiuirn. who seeing that capture was inevitable, lay down in the field and said Well you'll have to carry me- any way
 Coylo talked to him for a time and finally persuaded him to go peaccably to the station. Coylo then tolographed to the asylum that he had caught O'Donnell and McGuire at noon Attendants Thomas Macdonald and Charles Lacey. who had boon ordered to follow Coyle from Dan bury to Pine Plains, soon arrived and tho thrco attendants. with thcir prisoners, boarded train on the Newburg, Dutch csS and Connecticut railroad, arriving at Glonham. whcro two Conveyances mot tho party and conveyed thcm to tho asylum a milo distant.
 Tho ncwS of tho capture had spread through tho vicinity. and thoro was an immense crowd of curious country folk to scc tl4, now celebrated cunViCts arrive at the aHylur.
 The Captured Mems story.
 Dr Allison had McCiuiro and O'Dunncll placed in separate rooms and ho exam incd each ono at great length, after which | he repeated to a reporter what he had been | able to learn from them. It appears that as the asylum Is a new institution and not occupied throughout, a number of pa tients had been employed from time to t.me in finishing the various wards. Some mon.HS ago. Dr. Allison cannot say how many. a h Imber of p. tients were employ ed in scraping the floor of the south isola- tion ward, which was then entirely unoo- cupied.
 From McGuire it is learned that the , fashioning of the keys which freed the men from their cells was begun at that I t{y,Na hy Nafi0nt amnlnvN6 fha i'm provoment When McGuire was transfer red to the south isolation ward, together with other patients, he discovered these keys concealed in the rear of this ward, to- Gether with a pair of small flat files about inches long, The partially filed keys which had originally been spoons, as de- scribed by Quigley, were taken possession of by McGuire who has worked for the past six or eight months having them tried in the locks from time to time by one of the patients who had the run of the ward.
 Some time ago McGuire. who is Q jew eler by trade. and who is thoroughly con versant with the manufacture of such ar ticles, broke open the watchman's iron box in the ward connecting with the clock in the main office and secured a thin piece of steel 3 inches long and a quarter of an inch wide.
 With his file he made teeth in this steel. giving him a fine saw, with which he was enabled to saw out the wire screen over the door when the time for escape came. The keys and tools were secreted behind the sink when McGuire was not at work on them.
 The rest of McGuire's statement show ing how he left his cell, agrees exactly with the story told by Quigley after his recap ture.
 Knew Nothing of Perry's Whereabouts.
 The file and saw were found on McGuire when arrested. McGuire says that he and O'Donnell have been together ever since they left the asylum. They slid down from the south side of the roof while Perry and the others left the roof from the opposite side. Mcclure saw nothing more of them after that He and O'Donnell. he says, went at once to the Newburg. Dutchess and Connecticut railroad. half 6 mile away, and walked along the track all
 night hiding the next day.
 They had been walking on the track ever since, sometimes during the day. but generally at night. They have committed no robberies, McGuire says. except to steal
 one old black coat for himself and dral
 ulster for O'Donnell. which they found
 in a barn beside the track. They had oI
 the coats when caught. together witl
 slouch hats and old shoes which they saiC
 they found. They had not discarded tn
 asylum trousers or shirts which they ha( on when they escaped.l
 According to their story, they haveI IhaG
 nothing to eat since their flight excep
 some water cress M6Guire declared tha
 it was their intention to board a freigh
 train at the first opportunity. O'Donnel
 was very reticent and gave Dr. Allisoi
 but little information. He denied al
 knowledge of the plan to escape.
 The prisoners were in bad condition Q physically from exposure and hunger. an D seemed relieved when they were allowed [