The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
| YNOHEHHUN'S UNUSUAL
CAREER IFS A CRIMINAL
TumedI Into
Burning

he wished to release the horses. The
unIucky woman fell into the trap.
Coming down stairs she handed the
keys to the criminal and was turning
round to go back to her room to dress
when Lynchehaun pounced upon her.
Winding his arms around her, he drag
ger her to the stables, now burning
fiercely, and tried to throw her into the
flames. She struggled bravely, how
ever, and defended herself so we'll as to
arouse all the beast in her assaiIant
Lynchehaun not only did his best to
strangle her, but with his teeth he bit
off part of her upper lip and nearly all
her nose. He tore out one of her eyes
entirely and injured the other serious
ly. Then he finished his work-as he
supposed-by dealing her a frightful
blow, which crushed in her forehead.
The picture of this frightful struggle
between an Infatuated man and a help
less woman, alone in a burning build
ing at night, was one that must have
terrified even Lynchehaun after his
first burst of fury. He left the woman
lying on the stable floor and fled. But
Mrs. Mcdonnell was rescued by neigh
bors who had seen the flames of the
burning stables, and, in spite of her
terrible mutilations, she lived and was
able to apear against the man when
he was brought to trial. Lynchehaun
was capturedl not long after his flight
and started off for Castelar, Jail. hand
cuffed, on jaunting car, with two DO
licemen. On the way one of the po-
hcemen was thoughtless enough to lean
across to the other to get a light for
his pipe. and of this single minute of
grace the criminal took instant ad-
vantage. Holding his ~manacled hand
above his head, the better to maintain
his balance when he struck the
ground, Lynchehaun leaped from the
car, and then the ground seemed to
open and swallow him. UP for three
months. The story that he brought his
own capture in order that one of his
needy friends might pocket the $500
offered for his apprehension is appar-
emily myth. His hiding place proved
to be in a house close to the local
postoffice In the floor of a bedroom
hole had been dug and a packing
case placed over it, and in this Lynche-
haun was found, half naked, filthy and
huddled up like a toad. His trial and
sentence to life Imprisonment in Mary
borough prison followed immediateIy
The mere. statement that ,Lynche-
haun'S escape from Maryborough iail
was made by destroying the lock of his
cell, getting out on the prison roof and
then climbing the outside wall gives
hardly a hint of the ingenuity by which
this criminal surmounted the obstacles
which stood between him and freedom.
The only thing approaching it in re-
cent English prison history was the
scheme by means Of which Edwards,
the Camberwell murderer, just failed
to escape from Pentonville several
years ago. Edwards made a hole in
the wall of his cell by taking stones out
of it and hiding them under his bed,
and concealed the opening thus made
by pasting over 1t leaves torn from his
prison Bible and darkened with dirt.
Lynchehaun's plan for making USE
less the lock Of his cell door was more
ingenious because there was no ex-
ample for it In fiction as in Edwards
case. Attached to the lock was an au-
tomato indicator which showed white