The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-01
PRISONERS TIRED or JAL.
TEN SACNTER AWAY FROM CHAR
LEY VAN SISE'S STRONGHOLD.


WHY III IN solemn silence in a dull, dark dock
Avaring me sensation of a short. sharp shock?
What a he Use Of any Teller sittin here within
This prison?
Alttie .av. a little work and liberty is his'n.
-ko-kO rsUistd.
len q the 40 or more prisoners in the
Queens COUNT Jail, Long Island Ci,y, de-
rided early yesterday morning, after Civ
ing much careful thought to the matter,
N 60 away from there. They began going
through sawed bars at 2:3) O'Clock in the
morning and continued until $50 TO PASS
out without the aid OF a net. Warden
Charley Van Sise heard about the gates
alsr about this time and il was then decided
To detsin the forty-six prisoners still left
on the ground floor OF the jail.
About the only thing il was impossible
20 get out Of the prison after this was any
infer nation as to what had happened.
The black truth Of the general. delivery
NJ the carly morning and how it was brought
about we're Theoretically sealed from anx-
ious inquirers. Warden Van Sise shut him
self Of from visitors in the dark dank depths
of the prison during the greater part Of the
dsv. The task Of getting a consecutive
stor,. Of the escapes from the warden during
the few minutes that he did show himself
= Nl-ltOIs WaE ike DldHttnX information
from n hotel clerk.
IL was the general opinion Of the officials
who did talk about the matter that the ten
prisoners had got out with the aid OF a
saw that had been struggled in to them
on Sunday which is visiting day at the
jail-concealed in a bsby's clothing. The
wife Of Sandy Templeton. one OF the prison.
ers who decided yesterday to leave, called
-, Tapo-loton an SUNDAY ra win a hahr
in her arms. The woman was examined,
Il ia alleged. before she was permitted to
see the prisoner, but the baby was passed
in without being suspected. The SUPPOSE
ton Of the jail officials is that the baby,
which Templeton carried about during the
visit on Sunday, wore the saw beneath its
outer w~rsppings.
The ten prisoners who left we're all rom
hned in cells on the ground floor OF the
Jail. which is popularity known among the
residents as the Flats. The Flats and the
tiers Of cells above them and which face
each other on either side of a big hall form
the two sides Of a big, cagelike room within
q room. These rows of cells facing each
other are connected at either end by iron
hars, and thus a wide rectangular inner
court ia formed, into which all the prisoners
on the ground floor are turned every morning
AZ a o'clock, when the keepers automatically
open all the cell doors that open on the
inner court. There are doors at the backs
If the cells also and these open upon a
narrow corridor that runs all around the big
cage.
In the cell furthest from the entrance
10 the big cell hall were confined August
Schrsm. charged with robbery, and Thomas
Summetti, charged with burglary. Tenn
pleton, who was W Waiting extTadition to
New Jersey for wire stealing, and Jack
Leonard, who was soon to be tried for
burglary, were in the next cell, and il is
supposed that Templeton got the saw
on Sunday and first cut one of the "a inch
hsrs that separated him and Leonard
from Schram and Summetti and that the
last two cut the bars that led out of the
hack part OF their cells and so got out into
che corridor that runs around the building :
This preliminary cutting was all finished
In workmanlike shape about half past ?
Yesterday morning, and the four men then
stepped Out into the corridor. Templeton
and Leonard by way of the cell OF the other
two men. The four then walked down the
corridor 10 the eastern end and cut a bar
In a window that opens on the Jail yard.
The only work after that was to walk about
100 feet TO the wooden fence at the back
Of the yard and go over the hills and far
away.
The fence is a cinch. Small boys were
noticed climbing over it yesterday after
noon and dropping down in the jailyard
10 hunt for a ball. The boys had the adj
vantage, Of course, on the outside of the
fence, because of some dirt carts resting,
against il which aided in the scaling from
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fenos IL equipped with braces that run
from the top Of the fence to the ground
at an angle Of about so degrees or less,
and which enable a man in the Jail yard,
no matter how tir-d he may be from aw.
ing ~ inch bars, to get to the top also
without the aid Of a net.
After the first four men strolled away at
half past = things Jagged around the
Jail until 8 o'clock. At this time Keeper
that opens all the cell doors that open upon
The big inner a When the keeper had
done his duty he left temporarily. While
his footsteps died of in the distance six
other prisoners decided to go out also and
went. Their names, however, are known
totbe keepers, and much hope was expressed
yesterday that they would be ~returnedsome
time later. Only seven years ago a man es-
cared from the Queens county jail and he
was ARE sted in Chicago last spring as handy
ssyou please.
One of the first things done by Warden
Van Sise when he was aroused from his
led yesterday morning was TO find out
Just who had remained. By comparing
this list Of stsyers with the total list OF
prisoners il was then discovered that in
addition TO Templeton. Leonard, Schram
and Summetti the following had also de-
Parted: Nose Naedel, charged with grand
larceny; Charley Smith, grand larceny;
Fred R~eller-aIias Dutch, alias Yellow
robbery; Jim Singleton, grand larceny;
Tom Meskill, grand larceny, and Mart
Thorfer, also charged with grand larceny.
Why the rest Of the ffty-six prisoners in
the Flats remained is not known positively.
One theory Is that they smelled breakfast
cooking. but the supposition more gen.
orally believed il that they didn't want
10 90 away at the very outset OF a hard
winter.
The trouble with those men" COM
planned Chaplain John Gill bitterly yester.
day afternoon, sis that they were treated
too we'll here. They merely show by this
that they have no appreciation OF what
has been lone for them"
Immediately tha nOliCe were notified that