The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
MOST DARING ESCAPE. From Ohio State Prison Was That Made by "Red Charlie"

From the Brooklyn Citizen.
 The escape of Charles Clark, alias Charles stetson, alias Red Charlie, and alias several other titles. from the Ohio State Prison some years ago was fair sample of the genius and despera ton of a desperate crook who had been settled" for seven or eight years for robbery. From the moment Clark entered the pris- or he began making mental notes for fu- ture use. The number of doors the loca- ton of the guards. the defenses of vari- ous windows, the lay of the sewers, the thickness of the walls-every point was noted and stored up in his memory. He was assigned to a cell on the ground tier. In three days he had estimated the dis tance of the outside wall to Q fraction of an inch. His idea was to remove one of the fagstones from the floor of his cell and tunnel out, and within 60 hours after being received in the prison he was at work.
 With an old ehsel which he managed to secrete and bring In from his shop he scraped out the cement from around ths stone, One of the corridor sentinels pass ed his door every half hour during the night. and it was two weeks before Clark had the stone ready to lift out. He found a foot of concrete under this stone. and he went through that and hid the dirt in his bed He calculated that the sewer for that wing ran within four feet of his cell and he was right He wanted to make use of 1t simply 10 carry off the dirt from his tunnel. For many weeks he dug away at night, unsuspected by the sentinels but as he carried the dirt out in his pockets he made but poor progress. r. was nine weeks before he struck the sewer: 1t was of hard brick. When he had made an opening the sewer gas poured out in such quantities as to almost suffocate him Indeed, it poured through the tun- nel and filled the corridor until the pris- on officials were alarmed and began 10 search for the cause. Clark had to go down and stop up the hole and he was made ill for a week. At the end of that time he tried it again, but the gas was worse than before, and he found himself obliged to give up the undertaking. He could easily have run the tunnel, but there was no way 10 dispose of the dirt. He replaced the 1agstone, eemented if with dough and his efforts were unsupported.
 Clark had been In prison about five months. when he concocted another plan. From some local conyiets he got tho name of a minister of the Gospel in the country who somewhat resembled him in general anucarance He also ascertalned that the man was very timid and kind-harted. Pretty soon Clark was seized with m "in- disposition and. while not sick enough to be sent to the hospital, he was excused from work in the shop and permitted to remain in his cell. The Prison Chaplain found him an eager listener to his exhor- tations and matters were soon SO shaped that he was led to belive that Clark had something on lls mind. When pressed to admit that such was the case the prisoner basitated lust long enough to put the rhaplain's curiosity on edge. Yes. he had something on his mind. If was something Rev Tobias Green ought to know. If he would call al the prison some day he l wonld hear q confession which wonId clear mp a great mystery and sci certain things right
 1 For three or four days Clark beat about l inc bush playing the Chaplain for all he l was worth. and the result was that Rev l Tobias Green visited the prison. with his mind made up to llaten to some strange