The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-21
LEFT FOR PARTS UNKNOWN.

Prisoner Jumped Through a Window Of
 the Police Building and Escaped.
 There was some lively hustling about the central police station yesterday af- ternoon about 4 o'clock followed inn mediately thereafter by an exhibition of neat sprinting by Detective Captain Cowles, such as few lovers of athletics often have the pleasure of seeing. h. cidentally, however, 1t may be remark ed that the captain did not enjoy the sprint so heartily as he might have un- der other circumstances. The commo- tion was all caused by the fact that a prisoner not favorably impressed with the quiet and peaceful air that per vades the Court street temple of jus tice, took French leave-skedaddled- short, escaped by jumping through window The fellow giving the name of E. s. Plimpton of Cambridge, Mass, was arrested about o'clock on Church street on suspicion of having stolen a bicycle, which he had just sold for $5. The policeman who made the arrest took Plimpton to the station house and into the detectives room in order to put him in range of Captain Cowles' unerring fire of questions, which sell dom falls to make prisoner confess, if guilty. Captain Cowles had just open ed up with few light calibre ques- tions, skirmishing for points, when two gentlemen called and said they wished to see him privately. The captain stepped out into the hall to see what was wanted leaving the prisoner and the policeman who arrested him to- gether in the room. He had finished talking with the two men and was list who had just come in when suddenly the door opened and the policeman ap- peared, exclaiming that the prisoner had gone. It seems that while Captain Cowles stood in the corridor the pris- oner got up and walked towards the water tank, saying he wanted to get a drink of water, but as he reached the tank, instead of drawing glass of wa ter he made a dive and bolted through an open window close by Gathering himself quickly as he struck the pave ment near the side door leading into the police office, the fellow started at record-breaking clip out between the Heublein Nlilding and City hall. Reach ing Church street he ran up that thoroughfare and just across Elm street jumped over a feEce and made for the back yards.
 Captain Cowles, as soon as he was in- formed of the escape, started in pur- suit, leaving the policeman to figure out how it had happened. Superinten- dent Wrinn was just starting out in his carriage for drive and Captain hot ,o;, what had occurred, jumped into the wagon and he and the superintendent started in pursuit They dashed up Church street, and near the corner of Wall, Captain Cowles saw his man in a back yard. He jumped from the rapid ly moving wagon and ran round to the back yard just in time to see the fugi- tive scaling the fence of the adjoining backyard. Then the chase was hot and fast for few minutes. Finally the captain saw his man enter E. Hayes Trowbridge's barn and thinking that now he had him sure, entered the barn and searched it high and low, dancing a two-step over a hay mow hotter than Santiago Captain Cowles finally found back door and conclud- ing that the fellow had made his exit by that way continued his search through the back yards, finding the fu- gitive's hat in one of them, but not catching sight of his man. He at last abandoned the search and descriptions of the man were sent out to the differ ent stations to keep on the lookout for him.
 The escaped person is eighteen or twenty years of age, about five feet ten inches in height, with a sun burn ed, smooth face and red hair, and wore white duck low shoes, golf stockings, white crash knee pants, brown coat and no vest.