The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-26

An Eye Witness says the Convict Did
Not Try 20 Escape


Seattle. March e. Iss5
To the Editor : no-ice II this morn
taS's paper. II speaking % The 19A -
cares al Seattle. yaa mention Thomas
DrySsa as exc % t1e-7- and - you say.
- Was Afterwards captured oaly 20 ee
ssns 20 Walls wellz where ne vas later
sho< 20 death was1s attempting 70 escape
! % not write this under ne impression
rhat the pubic are very much INTERESTED
II hoE Dryden or any osaeT convict has
been shot - 4S2ta Or Eaur1eTe1- X sEea
S thsnS could 5s possible s. Tar as con
Eset ~ concerned, 9sat / Womb isAe p cor
re~s yca ~ yeI- statement as - fse
cause % his death. for 70 tell the public
~ was allied while attempting % escape
- telling fnS7a &Esf = rsQL tEue- = pc
VII permit E8e ! VITA cell yea how Z did
h2Ez~7. ana make a. a31agit % = I
yoz wish
TIE prisoners. while working IN the
5ate EzllL ara as secure u prison as any
% ne prisoners in the Seattle county jail.
for they are sSa-rroGade.3 b. b-scS and
y o-o-tsG walls aEzE1 armed guards and hosts
81 stool pigeons. the last EleE toned being
% more Use than a. The other precaD-
teas pat together. Every morning and
q noon the prisoners ii the 5a1e mil have
the privilege OF going 70 the s.E1k and
washing themselves before going 20 their
cells for their meals On the evening OF
February Il. is-s. Dryden took his towel
and started down the public paSsagegay
II TIE t4T@ NH towards me Sax - @ssa
himself. FOR L was Just before quitting
time When he got little more than half
way prisoner BY the name % Steve
Drrsnraond spoke 70 hin. ard as Dryden
KIND o. half turned round and stopped 10
speak 10 Steve he was shot down by
Guard pm Berry. this bslng che taird
prisoner he has killed there. They then
gave Il CUT that Dryden vas trying 70
snF IA.
Cameron and Others chose 70 say about Z
the papers published Sut these are The
facts % The case. and I can prove l.
Cameron. the deputy warden. Was in tia
guard cage with Berry g. the time o. the
shooting. and, although was ar Work
close 70 this cage for several months.
never saw Cameron there 50 late IN the
evening before. and Il vas the second
time BE was ever seen IL ina, post with
out having some visitors win 1srS- All
after the killing OF Dryden l never saw
hin there again.
Warden Coblsntx was az the back OF
the MIL standing al a well where some
some fourteen Or fifteen men were a.
work When ne heard the shot he jumped
away from the well. saying as ne rushed
of oh ] guess EeTry has got 11s
man" AS there were other armed guards
as vel as Berry IN the mill how did he
know If was Berry thai shot. and low dls
he knox that re had shot anyone
1 wrote out a fun statement OF this case
giving every circumstance connected with
il. for Ifwas right there when il happened
ard sax il all ] went Before the CITY
and county attorneys al Walla WaAa and
tried 10 have this case inquired into. but
they coald do nothing. As 3 last resort
went 10 Olympia and saw thu governor
and the invest gazing committee that was
about 10 start for WaIia Walla- They
promised 10 inquire into the doings c.
the prison officials.
THOMAS HAYDEN.
Hoffman House