The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-02

armed could get and defy the gatling
guns. If he could do this, he figured, he
could escape with the entire gang, save
those who would necessarily be killed at
the first fire from the guards. who were
known to be dead shots.
well he finally figured out that the one
spot where such thing was possible was
behind the prison ice house, which stood
! on the edge of a stone quarry excavation
about 100 yards from the prison grounds
Unless the gatling guns trained over this
ground could shoot through the ice house,
which he knew they couldn't, 1t was the
very spot he was looking for.
The next thing was to get arms George
Sonntag, the famous train robber, who
was a life prisoner at Folsom at the time.
was in the deal with the engineer, and ne
got into communication with one FRED
ericks, another famous train robber, who
had recently been released from Folsc IN.
and was hanging out in the woods several
miles away, probably waiting TO assist
some of his friends to escape.
"Fredericks succeeded in placing twenty
rifles and lot of ammunition in the stone
quarry excavation one night, and early the
next morning the carefully planned revolt
occurred. The engineer and Sonntag led
about twenty men to the quarry on the
run
The rifles OF the keepers and the tower
gating guns brought down about three
Of the men before they dropped into the
excavation and got their weapons, but
once there it seemed as though they. were
all rig and had an even chance in the
battle that was to follow.
Imagine the utter chagrin OF these
desperadoes when the whole side OF the
ice house wall, facing the quarry excava-
ton, suddenly dropped out, the nose OF a
gatling gun was pointed down at them and
moment later was beching steady fire
Ne hull ,ns1 kL,,. a ,T,f
the cruelest slaughters California ever
saw, but old Aull realized that it was a
necessary massacre. and in the preservation
of the system of Folsom he hesitated at
nothing
Thirteen Of those men we're shot to
pieces in that excavation and their bodies
were buried In the little prison graveyard
with inscriptions on their headstones tell
ing how they met their deaths. The rest
were nursed back to life and became red
shirt men.
THAT was the last revolt at Folsom.
Old Aull thought there might he some
flaw in his system that a successful escape
would develop, but he had long before
figured out that icehouse as likely place
for a prisoner with mechanical turn OF
mind to select as a spot where the g. thing
guns would not reach him. So he solemnly
rugged up gatling gun on the premises
and adjusted the side Of the icehouse 80
II necessary he could drop II to the ground.
at would he supposed that Aull would
fear for his life, but he knew not the mean
ing Of fear. In fact, he loved the danger Of
having these desperate characters in his
prison so much that when Judges In Frisco
would occasionally send real bad man to
San Quentin Prison he would get mad
and go right down to Frisco to protest that
all such men should come to him.
"In his great experience Aull learned
many queer things. I will only mention
one. That was, that he had to be especially
watchful when northeast wind was blow
ing.
at was then that his prisoners were most
restless; it We then that individual attempts
at escape would come. A northeast wind
always worried Aull for it always meant a
dangerous restlessness on the part OF the
desperadoes in his care
why. he never knew. He only knew
it was So and it was one OF the many queer
things that Aull discovered in his vast ex-
perience with these desperate criminals Of
the West