The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-06

so and handing the fellow a basket
with lunch in it. The Sunday services
in the Jail were generally conducted by
man who had white sdewhiskers,
and he wore a long coat and a slough
nat. While services were still going on
one Sunday in the JAIL the door which
opened into the main body of the Jail
was ratified as usual when some per-
| son wanted to pass out. The turnkey
responded, and found a gentleman with
white sidewhiskers, a long black coat
and a SLOUGH hat standing at the door.
l want to pass out for just a minute
he said, with an ecclesiastica air, and
the turnkey let him out. Shortly after
this the Jail services were brought to
close and the real preacher appeared at
| the door Of the jail. The turnkey was
paralyzed. At first he refused to let
the preacher out but when he found |!
that he was the real article he let him
pass through the door. The preacher |
remained to clear up the mystery, and |
to find out who his double was. The |
truth was quickly learned. The shrewd |
crook had escaped. Several days after
ward it was found that the woman
who had been bringing the apparently
iidl iliiSao uiililSI pan " llS jail Neio
smuggling things to the crook and in
this way she had furnished him with
the white sidewhiskers, the long coat
and the SLOUGH hat The woman had
left town with the man she liberated,
and so far as know they were never
apprehended 1t was a clever ruse, but
by no means new, except in the imita-
ton of a preacher, and this new feat
ure of the matter probably dlsarmed
the turnkey and caused him to fail to
scrutinize the man closely enough to
detect the scheme"
II have known of other cases equally
as remarkable" the officer continued,
land probably the most remarkable
case was that of forger who escaped
from one jail three times, and had the
record Of having escaped more fire.
quently than any other crook in the
country. Because Of his numerous
escapes he was closely watched, but his
three escapes from one Jail impressed
me as being out of the ordinary. The
first time he got out he walked through |
the front of the Jail disguised as a ne
gro woman. The dress had been slip
ped in to him by one Of the negro wom
en- who worked in the jail, and he had
secured soiled hat in the same way |
and, as he was a white man, he had
used the SCOT from a lamp chimney to
blacken his face. He was recaptured =
several weeks later The second time
he sawed out. When the officers began
to look into the matter they soon found I
that he had used no ordinary saw, and )
in fact they had kept such close watch
On him that they knew no tool could
have been slipped to his cell. He was
again caught. He was a frank fellow,
and told the officers how he had got
ZEN out. He had gone back into the
all with very fine wire saw coiled in
he bottom of his shoe. He had used
his to file his way out of the Jail. Be :
'ause of the small teeth Of the saw,
md the delicacy of the tool generally, :
ne was able to do the work without
making any noise, and thus escaped
detection. But the third time he escap- q
d he took several prisoners with him.
{ was a novel and dangerous plan
There was an immense sewer running
rom the jail to the river, a distance
f probably 500 or 900 feet. The water
vas slow, and the mouth Of the sewer
vas probably two or three feet below
he surface Of the river. With two ne
roes the forger made his way down
his sewer toward the river. The wa
ar was backed up some distance in 81
he pipe, and several feet back from M
ne river the pipe was completely filed p 2,
tut the forger took the chance. He !
ived out through the end of the pipe, IA
nd in a few seconds showed on the
lrface of the river. The negroes fol-
wed and they all escaped. The Off {.
ers We're puzzled, and they never ~,
new how the forger escaped until he I'll
I'D the story himself when he was -
captured. He is now serving out a
rm Of years In the penitentiary =
southern state, and is probably
,nned in for good, for an electric wire
strung around the walls of the pris- y
l, and he enjoys the distinction Of a aoe
,ving given birth to this plan of pre- Nv
4nting the escape of prisoners. But uS'
zen now the officials live in dread lest
burrow under the earth, or adopt
me other novel plan Of breaking out -
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