The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
FIVE IN The WORK HOUSE
NOTORIOUS LAW BREAKERS
ARE FREE AGAIN.
MANY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO COMET
Penitentiary Officials Say They Had Help fom
Cu'S'de. County Conyic!s Enabled 10
Tsclpe by Carelessness Of
The Guard,
the Guard.

Sunday night seems to have been ia
vorable for escaping convicts.
Five Federal prisoners.
Two State prisoners.
Five county prisoners.
These twelve escaped during the
night and early morning.
The county prisoners went tirst-about
o'clock Sunday might. One has since
been caught, leaving four still at large.
The FIVE Federal and the two State
prisoners made their escape early yes
terday morning None of them have vet
been caught The Federal prisoners, all
white men, were:
FRANK MOSS, sentenced from Mis-
sissippi, fen years.
HENRY JOHNSON, sentenced from
South Carolina, eight years.
WARREN GOODWIN, sentenced
from Georgia, five years.
CHARLES MILLER, sentenced from
North Carolina. five years.
HARRY WRIGHT, sentenced from
North Carolina, five years.
The State prisoners that escaped were
also white. and We're:
ULYSSES MEgTCALF, from Meek
lenburg county. eight years
GEORGE HlARRILI1, from Mitchell
county, four years.
All the Federal prisoners are noted
criminals and have been tracked all over
this country, and their capture must
have cost the government several thou
n III. all f4T-
fee safe-craclxers.
The escaDe was a most daring one
fearlessly planned and most desperately
executed And to this fact, to great
extent. was due its success.
Yesterday morning about Z o'clock
train from the Raleigh and Cape Fear
Railroad entered the penitentiarv en-
closure for the purpose of carrying eet
some empty cars. The conyicts were &C
work there i'm the brick yard. When the
train entered the guard stationed on The
lower part of the stockade came UP near
the gate. as usual to prevent any at
tempt at an escape there. This was fhe
time THAT the conyicts had fixed for
their break for liberty. They stole down
TO a corner of the stockade, struck
hoard in the stockade and it gave way
before them. They went out through rae
hole.
Two of the guards were in sight anu
seeing the men escaping, raisei their
gums and fired on the fieeing canTlcfs'
who ran straight for the woods. Ibis
checked others who We're nlakinS for the
opening and the prison bell was immedl-
ately rung sllnlmoning the cony.cts Win
in the prison block. One convict falien
TO answer tine bell lie was found ma
ing in a clllbreth within the enclosure.
waiting for "a chance to escape. Paftles
were immediately formed and starter on
the trail of the missing ones. Biood-
hounds were used, but as usual, they
were of little or no service.
Mr.. r. B. Arendell. the manager q
the penitentiary. was seen yesterday
afternoon. and asked about the escape.
1T is the result, said MIR. Arendedl,
s'of number of plans and schemes IN
auguratef by this band of United States
convicts, all of which, except this one,
we have been able to checkmate..
.sIhe band was headed by Frank
Moss. noted criminal, whom the GOV
ernment has chased all over the United
States and Canada, and who led a re-
volt against the management some
months ago. and for the punishment OF
whom the management was so severely
criticised OF course we have known
all the time that this band, headed by
Moss, Miller and Wright, were scheming
for escape. They have even gone so far
as to induce fellow prisoner who had
but q few months to serve, and who was
to some extent trusted, to escape and
make an effort to plan an outside con-
spiracy for their escape. The scheme
they worked today WAS evidently with
the aid of an outsider, as the plank in
the stockade was undoubtedly sawed out
by an outsider The point selected TO
saw d hole in the stockade was farthest
from any guard stand, and the time Sc
lected was when the nearest guard had
to make some distance farther away
in order to help guard the train en-
trance. The whistle of the train as 1t
came in for empty cars was doubtless the
signal for them to gather at given
point, misleading their overseers on the
plea that they desired to repair to the
prisoners closet, which was near the
place Of escape.
There were some twenty or twenty
FIVE i'll the scheme, but the rapid firing
of the guard deferred all but the three
ring-leaders, who almost in the twink