The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12

his impression that he was on the right
track.
None Of your id business snorted
one OF the suspects. who the hades are
What's wrong the marshal asked,
with well feignei surprise I'm going
south. and j Just thought YOU might be
heading the same way. This train here IS
going 10 pun out Ina minute or two. Hop
in clambering into an empty freight
car-.Only De quick about it,"
An right" grOwled the leader of the
gang. but you viii have 10 20 by way
Of Cincinnati on this freight. if"
The sequel of the Typographical discus
sion was cut short by the click OF a pis-
tol. and the bumps Of a savage scufiie on
the noor OF the box car. Marshal HIT, in
trying 20 arrest the triumvirate. was over
powered and flung out minus his revolver.
That adventure ought TO have warned
the fugitives that in very few minutes
the whole village would be on their track,
but they wasted those minutes By "A pro-
tracted consultation, and a. lengthy pulls
at bottle OF red eye" When they I'm
ally did start down the road. posse, too,
was under way, and overlook them at
the edge Of "a little thicket, less than a half
mile from the junction depot.
In the same foolish manner Robert
Rodgers Of the Ohio veterans, FILTERED
away his chances Of definite escape after
digging three times out OF the murderers
Jail OF Brownsville. Tex. The third time
they caught him they shackled his hands
and feet, put bullchain round his waist.
spiked link Of that chain 10 the floor,
and kept two sentries with loaded rifles
in his cell night and day. till the gallows
had been gotten ready for him.
Baron Irenck, too, blundered into the
clutches OF the Prussian crimps after eff
fecting his escape from the citadel of Fl
Schweidnitz-with one exception the best
fortified garrison town OF the Prussian
monarchy. lie had to begin by knocking
down an inspecting officer at the door Of
his cell, then jump and choke a sentry
cross parade ground with bullets whist
ling about his head. overpower another
sentry at the edge Of the glacis. leap down
a steep wall and run the gantlet of gen.
erai fusiade in his rush for the woods.
The two strongest prisons of Europe at
that time were the Bastile and the Aus
trian state penitentiary of Spielberg. near
OlmnetZ. MOvaria: yet Capt. RadOvitZ
clambered out of the latter triumph OF jail
er's science, and Chevalier Bernot eluded
the vigilance of veteran jailers and equally
experienced bloodhounds. The locks of his
dungeon door were apparent intact. but
the bird had taken wing. and at the tall
end of the most formidable four-footer was
found a piece of paper with a pencil
scraWl: ION peut cOrrOmpre RaVage aver
un sous paquet des tricossetes," -'One
can bride old Havoc with cents worth Of
shamble sausage
Lafayette had outside help. and Il is
more than probable that Marshal Ba-
zaine bribed the post commander of Ste.
Marguerite as well as his sentries but
the confederate prisoners OF Columbus.
O., were too poor to use golden keys. and
Danish state prisoner is said TO have
fooled the jailer at kongen's Nyestadt
by the desperate plan of swallowing
drug that gave him the appearance of
a corpse, and then have a friend get King
Christians permission to claim the re-
mains for decent burial. The command
er's adjutant suggested the precaution
of an autopsy, but the post surgeon as
sured him that the prisoner was as dead
as any criminal in the graves of the pris-
on cemetery.
The champion jail-breaker of modern
times, however, was probably the East
Prussan highway rObber. Roser, who es-
capped again and again. till the govern
ment finally got him transferred TO Fort
Kustrin, where they kept him locked up
in a building surrounded day and night
by a Gordon OF vgilant sentries. one
night, while the rain was pouring down
in streams, two of the sentries heard a
noise like the wailing of a sick child
on the roof of the house, and after sum
moning two of their comrades finally
agreed to arouse the jailer. The mys-
terious sounds on the housetop then ceas-
ed, and were explained only the next
morning. when the jailer ascertained that
the slippery boarder had cut his way to
the roof and descended at one end of the
building after attracting the attention
of the sentries to the opposite end. When
they caught him again they exchanged
him and a few others for as many Rus
sian political prisoners, who were con-
fined In a Rhenish fortress, while Roser
and company were lugged off to the Tar
east Two years later the Prussian po-
lice were informed that Roser, alone of
his escape from a Siberian convict camp.
He soon after reappeared in his old
haunts and was finally killed in the at
tempt to rob an out-of-the-way mill.