Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-19

haun's escape from MARLBOROUGH jail
VAS made by destroying the lock Of MS
cell, getting out on the prison roof ana
iinen climbing the outside wall, gives
4 hardly hint of the ingenuity by which
this criminal surmOunted the obstacles
iWhicA stood between him and freedom.
Z Tho only thing approaching II In recent
English prison history WAS the scheme
6 by means OF which Edwards, the cam
Z berwell murderer Just failed TO escape
from PentonVille several years ago Ed
wards made n hole In the wall OF MS
h tel By taking stones out Of II, and MD.
lag them under his bed, and concealed
Z the opening thus made by passing over
Z II leaves torn from his prison Bible ANA
, tarkened with dirt.
Lynchehaun's plan for making use
less the lock OF his cell door was more
. ingenious because there was no exam
pie for II In fiction as In Edwards case.
Attached TO the lock was an automatic
indicator which showed white when the
door was closed and black when u
was OPEN Lynchehaun had noticed
that the Inspecting Of these indicators
throughout the prison was done late az
night He borrowed a book from the
prison library and In this way got pa
per, with a small piece OF which he
made white the black part Of his In
dicator. Then. With a piece of wood,
ne plugged the socket Of the lockbolt,
40 that II could not be shut, AS final
yrecautlon, he secured the door with
another wedge shaped piece OF wood,
so that, should keeper push IT, the
door would not give He had deter
mined to escape that night and hoping
TO delay the chase for him by foollng
his jailers for a moment or two longer.
ne stuffed part OF his clothes inside his
bed so that II would look as II some
one were sleeping there, and left his
shoes on the floor beside Il, Then,
waiting until after midnight for a ia
vorable opportunity, he slipped out In
the hall in his stocklnged feet
PLAYED IN LUCK.
Luck aided Lynchehaun In making
his escape, for not only was his prison
a new one and in an unfinished state,
which left an avenue OF escape from IT.
but chance gave the convict an Oppor-
tunity of discovering exactly where the
weak point was. The prison Is four
stories in height with four galleries,
reached by large staircase. the top
gallery opening on the roof, which Is
surrounded by a parapet wall. The
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the idea that It would be well to close
this way to the roof by an iron gate.
and, as luck would have Il, assigned
Lynchehaun TO the task of placing the
gate In position. For some reason, the
important duty Of putting lock on
this gate was delayed and Of this care
lessness the convict took advantage
when he made his escape. Sinking up
the long staircase he passed through
the gate and 30 got on the roof Then
he discovered that an air shaft proJect-
ed from the prison wall and down this
he made his way, resting his feet on
the spikes In the shaft, and finally drop
ped safely In the yard. Then, how
ever, there was the prison wall rs feet
high to be climbed. Again the man
had cause to bless the fact that the
prison was stu unfinished. Scaffolding
planks and ropes lay about the yard.
and by means OF one Of the planks he
got up the wall at corner where the
ground slopes upward and the drop
outside Is lowest In his hand he held
a rope Knotting this he placed il
across a cleft In the wall and let him
self down on the other side. From the
moment his feet touched the ground,
however, the trail" ends. The first
news OF him since that time came from
indianapolis.
The story of the search for Lynche-
haun and how one man after another
was arrested for him is too recent one
10 need retelling. A clergyman. even,
who bore just the slightest possible re-
semblance to the pictures of Lynche-
haun was arrested while leaving a
game OF cricket at the fashionable Oval