Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-16

were paraded to their various work.
shops and set to their daily task ThH
Is done so regularly in every prisOl
= that the regards regard II as bit All
. routine they do mechanically. Moth.
ing to them is more surprising than ~
be called upon suddenly to do the very
work they are put there for So II was
: on the morning of Monday, June 2,
No one of many who were in the foul.
; dry seems to have seen what occurred.
, Certain II Is that Tracy and Merrill
. Walked to their places as usual Ger.
. tain II is that somewhere near t!s
places In which they worked we're two
large rifles loaded and ready for work.
. The two prisoners could not have car.
ried the guns from their cells. No ona
! seems to have seen them seize these
rifles, but just as the foundry squad
was about to be turned over to Guarl
Frank B. Farrell and put to work u
shot rang out and Farrell fell dead.
Fired at Every Guard.
The stove foundry is next to the
. wall. A yard surrounds II and thirty
|; feet from the wall Is the dead line.
, Guards are stationed upon the walls
armed with heavy rifles to shoot any
, luckless or reckless prisoner who
r crosses that line. Tracy and MerU II
rushed to the yard. followed by inc
guards who had paraded the foundry
, gang to its work. Near the door Frank
, Ingsham, a life convict, undertook To
stop them, only to receive rifle bail
in the leg.
Reaching the yard Tracy. whose
| shots seldom fail. fred at every wall
guard In sight. One of the bullets kill.
ed Guard s. X. T. Jones, and his fall
made every other guard in the place
hesitate to expose himself as a target
Tor either of the desperate men. The
/ watchmen returned the fire, however,
=, from all sides and ed shelter, 3us
in the rain OF bullets the convicts toJk
ladder from the side OF the foundry.
put 1t up against the 20.foot wall
| climbed up and jumped over.
, In the meantim, a couple of he
r watchmen had rushed out OF the main
gate and circled the outside OF the
, wall hoping to head OF the fugitiv,s S.
4 They ran into them face to face. but
= with the quickness born Of thorough
T desperation the convicts had them
, covered with their rifles Compelling
, the officers to drop their guns, they
: made them walk In front of then
:, across the fields, hostages Of the go1d
, behavior of their fellow jailers on the
r walls.
[ Excitement prevailed throughout the
I. prison. The men on the walls not III,
r Outstanding the danger OF their col
, leagues in the field. fired a volley u
4 shots at the fleeing figures. Immedi
q ately the conviCts fred on the hos
tages. Guard y. F. Ti.>.ny fell dead
while his companion, Ross, either wit
= rare presence of mind or from she'
n fright, dropped to tE-, ground and la,
l. motionless. Tracy and Merrill wei
4 too intent upon their escape to Civ
y him any thought. They hurried on
n leaving him to fly back to the prison
where by this time something like OF
"A der had been restored, for at the frs
!, firing II was feared that all the prlt
r. oners would attempt to escape. 4
M 1888 such an attempt had been made
/, and those who remembered II dreade
A. another.
Ia II was soon seen. however. that III
=, two desperadoes were alone in tn
N daring scheme they had EVIDENT
MIA tpit nj hn "a "a
executed with skill and nerve q
?. amazing to the prison officials as
: was to the public,
How the two conviCrs got the ria'
~ as yet a mystery. conspiracy
the guards Is easily disproven by Il
fact that three OF them met their deaf
In trying to Illustrate the escape. IL
stated that the Salemn prison Is not
well guarded as 1t might be; that Il
walls are insecurity patrOlled
night. An Interested outsider mig
scale the walls In the dark, put wea
ons where they could easily be fouI
and get back without detection. IN
theory, backed by the fact that Har
Wright, who worked with Tracy 81
Merrill In the foundry, and was,
nearly as prison discipline would p'
nit, friend and confdant, was
\ leased only few weeks ago, Is nj
thought to explain the mystery. Be
as II may, the rifles got In and the ca
vlcts got out. Three guards lost th'
, lives, the life convict, lngraham VI
: in attemDting to block the escape, W
shot in the leg. has since had the
amputated and has Deen IardOned
Governor Greer, OF Oregon.
] Salem. though the capital of Greg
Il is a city of only little more tn
: 1000 population, about forty'five mil
: south Of Portland. on the same rig
= the Willamette. II Is surrounded
& wild timber land, broken only by ncD
y sioual farms and rough roads. Ira
4 and Merrill literally took to
q woods where they spent their II
n day In hiding. posse OF twenty m
followed in hot pursuit but could 4
no distinct trail The first heard
them was about 10 o'ClOCi that mig
when they came upon J. W. Stewa
OF South Salem, on his way hor
They made him take OF his cloti
and enter his house. So violent u
effective were their threats that
did not inform the officials for fear