The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-20

and tried TO buy a hat for is cents, which. no
told the hatters, was all the money he had. He
no I5-oent hats at tho stores he visited. He said
that tho reason he hadn't more money was DO
cause he had Just , been ~ run = away, AWAY with NE n. h SsIs
that his overcoat. In which all his money was,
was on the seat q the wagon and that his hat
which accounted for the cuts on his upper and
Not being able to get q hat for the money he
had. Straight continued on. He was traced to
Paramount avenue, where he stopped In q salo9n
@ TO Sss q s back f to ara S%Sp street, and r. So nRSStls Z
cheap blue cap for IS cents. From men working
ON The. Erie Railroad and from the man n
,nS learned siSf that ' Straight finally reached the
Erie tracks and boarded q freight train going
After that ali trace Of him was lost. AS. Wee.
hawken had been notified of the escape, IL was
not thought that, should the 81, fugitive n Wu 60 there
Chief, Murphy, who examined the window
escaped, said that the bar had been sawed, and
Q good Job made Of 1t. Each bal, at the window
between ~ the tine Straight. was turned
out Of his cell for breakfast until he
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contonded. tho prisoner had boen at work. on the
bar, as opportunity offered, for several days.
Upon tho floor of the closet was found a piece
ola steel saw, such as are commonly used in
frames, about four inches long and about a
The Chief concluded that Straight obtained
the saw. from a woman who, had often visited
him him during .aiG st the ,x time sis ne S had been ssa APR pris snliSa Hn na
basketfll' of food. Tho basket was an ordinary
market basket, and was m by Sergeant
Robinson before Straight was allowed to take it
to his cell.
Chief Murphy knew that the woman lived In
Harlem. He had decided to send a man over to
locate her, II possible nanso wh en-. to his s uSpr, es she
N',lp,l vnafnrIav aftarnnnn Tho woman Raii.
How DO ye.p do. Chioff Can l see him for a
""CeItainly.'' was tho Chiefs answer; "but
before you go inside ! want to talk to you a few
minutes. II seems that you have made n poor
y yssafn % ao You ut think INK It tU %as quite T fair to give him
those sawsf'
II don't know what you, mean" was the
"Oh. yes you did, " answered the Chief. We
found them this morning, two Of them. Fur
Ing. saw you give them to him"
is that SO T. said the woman. well. IF your
spy had had better eyes he would have seen mo
'"oh, he would exclaimed tho Chief. You
meant that he should be well fixed. didn't you :
that's all we want. Sergeant Robinson wants to
see You q minute before you 30 inside. III
The Sergeant was called. and when ho was
alone with the woman, according, to the state
ment he made afterward. he said:
"Say, you zane near getting me in q lot OF
trouble by bringing in those saws on Saturday.
Where did you have them, nyway
sure. When you took the basket, my heart
went into my mouth. because had you, tipped
fallen out. The only thing l regret now is that
he didn't have n chance to use them. Had he
1Hns f here .d id hsv as D MaeS w,sJ1n oEd tH n AID t tSee pla n,s
Of sharkey; when he escaped from the Tombs in
The Chief then placed the woman under
arrest. charged with aiding a prisoner to escape.
Later In the day she was arraigned, before
examination. Afterward she told Chief Murphy
that, had she known, what he was after, she
would not have said what she did. She said that
not know that her husband. to whom she
made such good use Of the saws she had given
to him. Anyhow. she said. she didn't know
f feIonv ASSISTING is Hog 8 Jer psisonessh She TO es ssssp her was name g
said that she was, a native of this eoun'
other than ham that lsI she lived in this city. She has
dark brown hair. gray eyes and a good figure.
trimmed with black braid. A red picture hat
and brown kid gloves completed the costume.
Straight is said to BE-" native At ,n. Of Lewis bur- :
thai he syindled 2 Williamsport bank out q
has made upward Of $500 o by raising
never paying for them. With one or another Of
Minor.Hillard Milling Company. OF Wilkes
barre. by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, by the
United States Express, Company. by samuel
Wolf. n dealer in woollen goods at 266 Canal
street, and by, Koplof, & Segar. who are also
dealers in woollen goods in Canal street. lie
has. 1t is snid. used the aliases Henry f. Paige.
d.. f. Bly,. and Charles Bates. When he was ar
rested he was living in a fashionable, boarding
house on Jersey City Heights with the woman
now under arrest, and had been introduced at
the Carteret Club.