The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-23
FOUR BREAK OUT OF JAIL.
VERY NEAR a GENERAL JAZZ DE.
LIVERY IN ULSTER COUNTY.

Three Prisoners Saw window Bars snd ~
,cSpe-A Fourth seos the Hello ana Goes
Out-Rcturns and Tells tho Jailer Just 80
Thirteen others Arc Ready 70 B1ee.
KINGSTON. Aug. 22.-Four prisoners escaped
from the Ulster County Jail at about 2 o'clock
this morning, and three are still at large. The
escape was made through window on the n,o-
ond floor. four bars having been sawed through,
and the mon letting themselves to the ground
by ropes OF blankets that had boon tiod together.
Tho first intimntion Jailer Smith had that there
had been a Jail delivery was when Paul Cabel, .
private night Waterman, brought to the Jail
Michael Reynolds. ono Of the escaping prison.
crs. Cabel met Reynolds on Wall street at ESQ
o'clock. Reynolds was with his sister, and told
Cabcl that no had seen John Boylan, William
Lashcr. and Charles Sullivan escape from the
Jail and had gone through the hole himself. He
followed them about n mile to the West Shore
Railroad. then came back and went to hts homo.
Meeting tho Waterman, he thought II would b
better to let Cabel take him back and report
that he had arrested him, 80 that the other
prisoners wouldn't know that he had squealed.
Jailcr Smith went into tho jail and found that
Boylan, Lashor, and Sullivan were missing. He
ALEC discovered the window with tho four bars
cut out. and found q saw. some acid. oil. and
grease. Boylan was arrested in New York with
his pockets filled with jewelry, watches, and
silverwaro. stolen from the residence of John W.
Soaring, editor of the Kingston Leader. and
Lashcr was awaiting trial for burglary ct Sau.
gerties. and was suspected OF being concerned
In the murder OF Capt Mulligan ut that place.
Sullivan was only brought to Jail on Friday TO
sorve ~ffty-tlvo days for stealing q bicycle al
Saugerties. He snid he had been a newspaper
man and had been connected with tho New York
World.
Tho Ulster county jail has seventeen prison
ers in 1t, many desperate characters among the
lot. One is Joseph Decker. who is charged with
Of Plattekill. on June 8. whom, he shot him
through the heart in his .cornfeld. Another 10
Thomas Kelly Of UnionyilIE, WHO some months
face with q shotgun. injuring his sight and
After the fashion In most country jails, whom
they 80 desire all Of the prisoners are. allowed
TO leave their cells and roam about the jail. with
Kept in Close Confinement. Even at night the
prisoners are not watched closely, by tho iailer
an are not locked up in their coils.
The escape this morning was most cleyerly
planned and executed: Il was shortly after 1880
F. smith. who then went back to bed. At about
2 o'clock no heard a commotion. and, going out
paralyzed with astonishment when he saw On.
nolds. whom Jaiier smith Would have sworn
was safely locked up in Jail; The prisoner
was accompanied 10, Jail, py,, MS elstef.
a hasty search was made OF the jail and u was
found that the three other prisoners mentioned
were missing. Four inch and q quarter steel
bars had been sawed through and removed from
the masonry of the window. The descent TO the
ground, some fifty feet below, was accomplished
by means of a rope of blankets and other bed
clothing tied together, Boylan is said 70 have
planned the escape and to have sawed the hars.
The work must have taken several days. Tho
sawed bars were theld together by soap and thus
escaped detection.
But for the fortunate picking up Of Reynolds
0y yi! Nisas w ma5Gh imam e SaSel: every we ybs ors g.. OF THE the
were getting ready to fee. The police Of all the
neighboring cities have been notified OF the
the apprehension OF Boylan and Lasher.
The Jail from which they escaped Is In one Of
the most historic old court houses in the State.
1t was burned in 1777 by the British and rebuilt
in 1878. From the steps Of, the building the
constitution OF the State OF New York WAS hfso
read in l7T7, and in the front yard, mounted on
a pork barrel. Gov. George Clinton made his In
augural address.