The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-23
C0NvtCTS
/ ATTEMPT
/ ESCAPE
Ono Probably Fatally Wounded
and the Other Captured After
a Long Chase.

New York. May 23.-Roy Carroll and
Charles Austell escaped from the pen,.
tsntiary at Snake Hin. N. j.. yesterday
morning. Carroll subsequently, wa,
captured. Austell was riddled with bul.
lets and is believed to be dying.
The men were working In the prison
quarry with 100 convicts guarded by
Twelve keepers armed with repeating
pnes At a. m. Warden John Grimes
neard strange calls from the Bergen
county side OF the Hackensack river.
which flows alongside the prison.
lie sent Keeper Neville and two guards
across the stream 10 investigate. They
saw John Kenney. recently a convict AZ
snake Hill running away. This Incl
oent put the keepers on the alert and
~ were READY for the attempt TO es-
cape when II came at 1875.
Carroll made the first break He
seized steam pipe two feet long and
Struck Engineer Walsh, I'm charge OF the
rock crusher. on the head with II Keeper
Frank Herbin had left his rife lying by
the crusher. Walsh ran and got II and
covered Carroll
Austen whose chains had been
simost through. snapped them off. and.
swinging the heavy ball around his
head. struck Walsh to the ground. Then
Carroll struck Walsh with the pine.
Keeper Edward Tanner ran I'D and
pointed his gun at Austell. who, snatch
Ing the pipe from Carroll. beat Tanner
TO the ground with IT, A negro convict
named stats ran up and grapped with
austen. The two fought desperately.
put the white man was the stronger.
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and Selling Herbin's gun ran toward the
river.
keepers Neville and Murphy began
ehootirg as soon as the men broke away
The lSO other convicts hid behind rocks
20 dodge the bullets. Austell with the
repeating rife sent bullets flying around
the keeper heads. He shot three times
ri Keeper Flynn as he ran past that
guard 8 little enclosed station
Warden Grimes heard the shooting
and blew the alarm whistle Five OF the
guards marched the other convicts back
TO quarters and the others started out
after Austell and Carroll shooting aS
they went Austell shot once or twice as
he disappeared into the tall meadow
grass and made toward the quarry OF the
New Jersey Trap Rock company. Keep
ers Neville. Flynn and Murphy fired
volley at him and he fell I'm the grass.
Carroll seized the gun and ran on The
chase lasted nearly four hours. Capt.
Wohebin. Of eJrsey City, sent eight po-
licemen. Judge Blair. OF the County
court sent Sheriff Zeiler. with all the
deputies he could gather. Prosecutor
Speer Joined In the man hunt. The men
scattered through the high grass and
searched everywhere for Carroll
Two or three times there were rile
ehots. and bullets would whizz by the
heads of searchers. Keeper Neville
finally traced Carroll into a thicket OF
blackberry briars. Slipping up. he saw
@ hole in tho ground. He called out 10
Carroll TO surrender. There was no res
ponse. but Neville saw cleaning rife
barrel raised and aimed in his direction.
THREW DOWN HIS GUN.
Plunging through the briars the keeper
levelled his own gun and told Carroll
20 throw up his hands Carroll saw the
other men back OF Neville and. throw
Ing down his gun. said he would give up.
The hole in which he was hiding was
several feet deep and had been dug out
by Italian quarrymen when on a strike
Carroll shed tears when told that Aus
tell. had two ribs and an arm broken
and a bullet hole In his back He sad
that he and Austell were the only con-
victs implicated in the attempt to es-
cape.
Carroll was a stenographer before he
was sentenced for two years for larceny.
He is said to have highly respectable
connections I'm Ohio. Austell is a graduate
in pharmacy. and IS an educated man.
When rearrested recently I'm New York
he had a bottle of knock out drops and
the police believed he was making liv-
Ing by knockout robberie~.
I'VE decided TO risk death TO get away
from such surroundings said Carroll,
after he was captured.
1T was Austelrs second escape or
Feb. IL the coldest day in the winter,
he broke out and swan through ice in
Penn Horn creek. He was recaptured
by the New York police on May I. and
sent ha0k-to Snake Hi