The sun., 1903-11-17
JUVENILES BOWL OVER GUARD
A DOZEN TUMBLE DOWNSTAIRS
AND QUIT ASYLUM.
They Made Such a Racket That the Manage
ment Was Not Lone In Learning OF
the "Delivery"-An COrrailed and
Locked Up in the Punishment Ward.

LOckCO Up III the PUNISHMENT NaTu.
The superintendent of the New York
Juvenile Asylum, at l76th street and Man
haitian avenue, was not dependent upon
the police for information that yesterdays
contingent of runaway boys was at large.
They all went in bunch and with clatter
ing of feet that woke up the more alert
guards.
In fact, they bowled over one guard in
their fight and rolled. slid. tumbled and
skipped down long flight Of stairs to the
office floor and so through a window to
the asylum grounds, while the guard came
numbering after them just in time to see
the last of the flock disappearing in the
darkness of the early morning hours.
For many weeks back there has been
a pretty steady stream of runaways. of
whose escape the asylum authorities seem
to have heard from various outside sources,
which an investigation generally proved
to be pretty reliable
Elmer the supcrintendent's Office boy,
a child about 10 years Of age, apprehended
two of last weeks batch of runaways in
Amsterdam avenue short distance from
the entrance to the asylum grounds. But
that was only an episode in last weeks
record of juvenile asylum jail deliveries.
There was a plot on If foot foI & general
Whether news Of this enterprise was brought
in to the asylum authorities by any of the
neighbors or by the police is not definitely
known. 1t is rumored that one OF the boys
split on his comrades.
But. however it happened, the fact re-
mains that the asylum authorities by
some quite unprecedented combination Of
circumstances, got near enough IN toucn
with their charges to learn the drift Of what
had been going on at several mass meet
ings Of the prisoners.
The house having thus duly fallen
on the management it walked up and made
a roundup Of the. delinquents. twelve
Of whom, supposed to be ringeaders,
An employee representing the asylum
management jeered yesterday at this
apartment being called the Jail part" Of
the institution, said that he had never heard
connected with the apartment in which
the culprits were shut up. as had been
represented in some versions of the escape.
Anyhow, the delinquents got into an apart
men, opening out OF the one in which !hN they
opened the door In search, OF them they
bowled him over and fled down the stairs
and out through the windows,
1t was before daylight yesterday morning
when this happened, and about tar an hour hour
street station found Alexander Robinson
and Frederick Benton, each 16 years old ,
skulkine in and out of doorways in Eighth
avenue, near l27th street. He. gathered
them in and at one recognized them as
Juveniles" by their clothing
The ten other boys We're all caught be.
fore dark yesterday In the neighborhood of
Eighth avenue between l2oth street ana
l52d street. They were all taken back to
the asylum and locked up in the punish,
ment ward, with an especially alert guard
detailed to watch them,
So far as could be learned. this bunch OF
n dozen we're the only Juveniles who es-
capped yesterday, although, to be sure. the
mana cement had not at dark last evening.
full returns in from all the neighbors, or
from any OF the police save those at the
l25th street station.