The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-04-15
C0NTI0lS CAPTURED.
Two More Fugitives Returned to
the Mattewan Asylum.
PERRY AND DAVIS STILL AT LARGE
The Noted Train Robber is Supplied with
Citizens Clothing-Patriclk Mcclure and
Michael O'Donnen Overtaken at Pine

Citizens ClOthing-PatriclS Mcclure and
Michael O'Donnen OvertaIsen at Pine
Plains by Keeper Coyle, of the Asylum.
MATTEwAN, N. Y, April 15-Patrick
MCGUIRE and Michael O'Donnell, two of the
five convicts who escaped from the Matte
wan asylum last Wednesday night were
captured at Pine Plains yesterday by At
tendant James Coyle, of the asylum This
leaves only Perry, for whose arrest re-
ward of S2,250 is offered, and Davis, who
is said to be even moro desperate and dar-
ing than the former, still at liberty.
When Superintendent Allison learned
that Perry had broken into a house at
Hughsonville on Thursday night and
stolen quantity of wearing apparel he
at once dispatched attendants to all points
north of here, thinking the train robber,
and perhaps also his pals, had gone in that
direction. Attendant James Coyle, who,
with two other attendants, had been at
Danbury, was told to proceed at once to
Pine Plains, which is forty miles north
east of this place. Coyle arrived at Pine
Plains Saturday night, and stopped at the
hotel. Yesterday morning he went to the
station and was about to buy a morning
paper from a newsboy when he chanced to
head protruding from an empty hay car
about fifty yards from where he stood
The head disappeared, but not before
Coyle recognized the man as O'Donnell.
Going to the open car door he fired a
shot from his revolver at random into the
/ car. 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'DoDnell, who
was Crouching in a corner, too broken
/ down to offer resistance. Coyle pulled the
convict out of the car and took him
into the station, leaving him in the Gus
/ tody of two boys, while he started down
the railroad track in pursuit of Mcclure,
who had by this time got quite start of
him
Coyle gained on the tired convict for
/ about half a mile, and then fired another
| shot. AS he rounded curve the fugitive
took to the woods, which border the track
on both sides. The pistol shot had at
tracted a crowd of boys, who joined in the
chase, and some of them saw Mcclure go
into the woods and told Coyle. The keeper
| secured the woods for fifteen minutes be-
fore he saw Mcguire again. Then the con-
vict was standing in an open field on the
border of the wood in a defiant attitude
Coyle started toward him, firing third
/ shot.
''If you take me you'll have to take me
dead, >" Mcclure yelled deflantly
'Tll do that" replied Coyle, coming
closer to Mcclure, who, seeing that cap
ture was inevitable, lay down in the field
and said "Well, you'll have to carry me,
anyway"
Coyle talked to him for time, and
finally persuaded him to go peaceably to
the station. Coyle then telegraphed to the
asylum that he had caught O'Donnell and
Mcclure, and Attendants Macdonald and
Lacey went to Pine Plains and aided in
bringing the prisoners back to the asylum.
DR.. Allison had Mcclure and o. Donnell
placed in separate rooms, and he examined
each one at great length, after which he
repeated to the Associated Press reporter
what he had been able to learn from them.
1t appears that as The asylum is new in
stitution, and not occupied throughout, a
number of patients have been employed
from time to time in finishing the various
wards. Some months ago a number of
patients were employed in scraping the
floor of the south isolation ward, which
was then entirely unocoupied.
From Mcclure it is learned that the
fashioning of the keys which freed the
men from their cells was begun at that
time by some patient employed on the i'm
provement. When Mcclure was trans
ferred to the south isolation ward, together
with other patients, he discovered those
keys, together with pair of small fiat
files, about four inches long. The partially
filed keys, which had originally been
spoons, were taken possession of by Nc
Guire, who has worked for the past six OF
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 Mcclure, who is jeweler
by trade, and who is thoroughly conversant
with the manufacture of such articles
broke open the watchmans box which
connects with the clock in the main office
and secured a thin piece of steel two in
ches long and quarter on 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 sinks when Mcclure was not at work
on them.
The file and saw were found on Nc
Guire when arrested
Mcclure says that he and O'Donnel
have been together ever since they left the
asylum. They slid down from the south
side of the roof, while Perry and the other.
left the roof from the opposite side. Nc
Guire saw nothing more of them after
that. They have committed no robberies
Mcclure says, except to steal one old black
coat for himself and drab ulster fol
O'Donnell, which they found in barn
beside the railroad track.
The prisoners were in bad condition
physically from exposure and hunger, and
seemed relieved when they were allowed
to throw themselves on the cots in theiI
cells and were given nourishment.
Fatal stRbbing Array at MaItby, Pa.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, April 15.-In a
drunken brawl among Hungarians in the
= village Of Maltby Saturday night Mrs
Anna Tonish, a boarding house keeper was
fatally stabbed, and her husband, Alexan
{ der Tonish, received nine knife wounds in
: the body. The murderous work done was
by George Line, who was armed with q