The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-08
BROKE JAIL TWICE.
Little Johnnaias Timothy Al
mostiRScabss from
tl {. PaEsf
FORCED THE CELL BARS
Jumps Fences and Runs Through q
FsiTate House-Think 10
is Now Secure.
FORCED HI CELL BARS

Johnnie Timothy, 10 years old, of No
40 Pavenia avenue, who, with his sister
Mamie. three years his senior. was held
to await the action of the Grand Jury
yesterday morning on several charges OF
larceny from the person, as was fully
stated IN 1.-THE Jersey City News Of
yesterday, is an innocent looking boy.
but he,s evidently knows a thing or two.
Yesterday Johnnie and Mamie were ar
raigned in Justice Potts court, and after,
wards were taken to the Second precinct
police station n locked up. They were
sullen and uncommunicattYe, and the
boy only displayed any signs of emotion.
He sat d~isconsolate in his cell and wept
as though his heart would break. In
the afternoon the police allowed the chill
dren to play in the corridor, and h
amused themselves for a time. When
no n was looking Johnnie climbed out
OF a window which was handy From
there he reachedYehe house where the
patrol wagon is kept. passed out the
rear door. scaled two fences and entered
the basement of a house on Sixth street,
directly Behind kthe station. A woman
who lives there saw him and guessed
that he had escaped. She screamed out
in alarm, and the boy. lodging past her,
started down Sixth street, and had turn
ed a corner before. the. police knew what
the woman was screaming about.
Captain Kelly and two policemen rave
chase, and after running four blocks
managed to catch him. When caught he
said
I'D a lone it if she'd only give me
a chance"
He was taken back to the station house,
and Chief Murphy was communicated
with. By his orders the juveniles were
sent to the Oakland avenue station house.
They were locked w in the woman's
Ing; = : : : re = = Da''a
The boy is a nice, quiet little fellow
Woman's prison said to Captain Newton
Ter than I am of him" she continued.
Her mistake in both cases appeared
rate rooms all to themselves last night,
and they did not give the least bit of
trouble to the ma'tron. The police thought
about eleven O'Clock Matron Wyatt, who
was on the second floor of the station
house proper, happened to look out of
sitting On the chimney of the roof of
the woman'se, prison, which is about
seen that face before and Kept looking
at him. Finally. the boy looked in her
direction, and whezplhe say her he made
- udSH Ito yE6Sk6Ia END OF che DQllQ-
ing. Jumping from thegprison roof to a
roof on a lowershutldina,s with the aid
Of a tree which grew close to the last
n naaa ne na,~ descended TO The ground and
meantime the matron. who had recog-.
nized the boy the minute he looked her
square in the, face, ran downstairs and
gave the alarm to the police. Captain
Newton ordered all the patrolmen in the
station house to hunt up the boy. Several
of the officers went around to Cook street
With 1hA infpnffap nf hnodinr him afc
Tom Drum, a hnemans who left the sta
ton house to find the boy, saw a little
lad running up Hobokep avenue on a
dead run. The lneman gave chase and
caught him after a short run. Detective
Kee9al. who came up to the. TIVE, iden-
tlfled the boy. He was taken back 20 the
station house. When asked why he broke
jail. he said he only wanted to get away.
The boy eWase1ocked up in a cell on the
second floor of the woman.s prison. In
the corridor of the mems prison. The
boy broke the glass in the window with
his hand and then forced the iron bars
then dropped down ten feetFto the pave
ment in the .cerEadors ctofs the mems
prison. Peter aBeggins, 1.-THE edoorman at
the stations house fihadps1eft the door
there Were NO prisoners in there at the
time. The hoy walked out of the
prison through this door and walked up
the stairs whichp1eads from the outside
From there he climbed on to the roof |
Fromthere he climbed on to the roof
of the prison. It was then that the
matron discovered him. Captain Newton
thought it best to have the boy placed
In a cell without a window. Accordingly
the boy was placed in a cell down
stairs. from which it is believed he can
mot escape. Captain Newton says hi is |
the worst boy he has ever had as a
prisoner. He will be closely watched
hereafter. It is impossible to brighten
the boy and he treats the matter like
q hardened criminal.