The age-herald., 1902-01-23

pals but when they reached, Coal Creek the men had gone leaving for Mississippi on freight train.
 A. J. Dye. who was retaken Tuesday remains in jail and Is not allowed to see visitors. Sheriff A. w. Burgin. who is detained at his home on account of the critical illness of his wife, was called up over the telephone yesterday and asked if Dye could be interviewed. .l
 Sheriff Burgin declined, saying 'I don't want any newspaper men to interview him at all"
 Being asked what were his reasons for declining to allow him to be interviewed, the sheriff refused to answer and hung up the telephone.
 Will Not Answer London.
 The sheriff was asked if he would make any reply or had anything to say as to the card of Mir Alex T. London, in which MT. London said that the jail was not properly guarded The sheriff replied Not now"
 Circulars are still being distributed giv- ing a description of Duncan and the other prisoners, and offering a reward for their arrest The sheriff received yesterday from the chief of police of Chattanooga a negative photograph of Duncan and his measurements by the Bertillion sys- tenn. A new circular giving these meas urements and having photograph of Duncan is being prepared, and will be ready for distribution today.
 Duncan's measurements by the Bertil- lon system and description of him are as follows:
 How to Identify Him.
 Name, Frank Duncan, alias Frank Ed wards, alias Slim: color, white; resi- dence, No. Montgomery avenue, Chat tanooga, Tenn; date of arrest, March 30. 1900; crime, safe blowing and murder; officers, Wells. Smith, Disheroon, Bode- ker and Gilbreath; disposition of case. sent to Birmingham, Ala.
 Marks, scars and moIss:
 F1rst-vax 3x2 at 8 ab elbo out cic ob 11z at 2 thumb, front. Nav 1zx1s j mid- dle finger in cic ob 11A at i be 2 third finger in.
 second-Cic ob at thumb in cic ir vest 315 at ab thumb in,
 Third-Cic of 11s 2 from m line 15 ab src. Scar ob 1.12 from m line be ear. Two other small scars be this scar. Ap- pearance of scrofula-
 Hcight-1m ITO; Eng height 5.sss. Outs a I'm ITO; trunk S9.9; head length 19.9; head width 15.6; cheek width, 139; right ear "A; left foot 26.7 g. mid f. 11s; lit [. S9; 1 forearms All; circle, az. m; age S3; nativity Ohio; occupation laborer.
 Descriptive:
 Forehead Incln rec. sl height, m; width, m.
 Nose-Ridgc. hump; base. dep; root, m; length. great; projection. lit breadth. m; pecul, inclines to right.
 Teeth-Lower overlapped.
 Chin-Projected and pointed
 Beard-Lt, oh, mustache.
 Hair-Light; oh.
 Complexton-Fair.
 Weight-16S; build, md.
 Escaped From Illinois.
 Duncan is said to have escaped on Jam uary g. 1899. from the Illinois State peni- tentiary at Chester, H., one of the strongest and most carefully guarded prisons in the United States On his trial here, however, he denied this. He mar ried in Chattanooga a woman named Myrtle Haas, whose father kept the ho- tel in which Duncan, Edwards and West were arrested just after the robbery of the Standard oil Company. He is a na- tive of Adams county. Ohio.
 One of the stories being told around the Jail yesterday was that Dye. after making his escape Monday morning with the rest of the prisoners, found when he got outside of the jail that he had forgotten his shoes, and that he went back into the jail for them. climb ing up the rope and re-entering the nar- row opening in the Jail window through which the men had escaped. When he came out again he found that Duncan, vanIIorn and Builard had gone Another story is to the effect that Duncan ana tho others shook Dye, on leaving tho Jail they going In one direction and he in another. The general helief, however. among the officials Is that the men ali separated on leaving the jail and that each man struck out for himself,