The evening world., 1906-12-10
Warden Believes sctlieii-
mann, Who Disappeared,
Is Within Walks.
POSSE SEARCH WOODS
Model Prisoner, Possibly IN.
sane, sane May May Haze Canrted
Death in River.

Though an nil-niStit search u u@
ysras OK slne sing prison fatlfA q re.
seal she w11ereab0uts of Frank SNse'-
mann. a Federal p-ia3aet rom tiais Oily,
who es-apsa early IN the eveaiilg. war
A., Johnson n confident :he eaayiN' ~
ia hiding on tho grounds. and a strong
force OF guards is cortinninf the hunt
for him. His disappearance ~as on@ OF
sise rs.ost mysterious IN the history OF
ts1e prison.
,rha blowing OF the big siren whistle
nve minutes nfter the man was fnisssd
threw the bts prison into The widest
excitement, and. while 4, Ms a. hrst
tfrousht he had scaled the wall ana was
dfowned, It ia nov beiievcd he Waa IN
game ard Is acting With the cunning OF
one who suddenly loses his mind sehis'-
mann. who had only FIVE eSuorths more
Il, serve. had been actins strangely OF
lats and the warden concluded several
dass ago that his mind vas weakening.
rwo years ago tho prisoner 5wnn sen
fenced for eounterfcsing He Was
ut,ie! In his department. and i've
,a5,nths ago was assr ii fif;,.. 20 !. place OF
tr,rse--that OF night duty at the engine
~ ,he regular hour To go to work ne
VIA = not on hand. and an alarm was
Dotinded.
aDniy ten minutes baso7e ne WIS ass''
oh tho grounds. but when. the ReeIrrs
and guards started out TO nun, tpF hiii
vAay were In a auandary None Of tho
sa,tr4as slong the wall had seen hsh'
ffio gates were MT
3,e,slsle means of escape h:Frs- 4s-ee scarf
f,,lly wntcAe,3 A heavy SNOW hasi i2-lFsn.
but not n footprint could be found
Search Woods for Fugitive.
fsnnoed,ately the po.ics Of all towns
> tx,,,g the river and In rWestchester
..sA,nty were notified. The wooas ats'Ass
l.sin,,ra we're searched early to-day.
tan for he had spent the night IN
,he open 1t must be certain he was
almost frozen.
i, nerhaps, he did scale wall IN
IL i,.aa hs, must have drowned, for II
.ye. ttn,yosxipie for any one to swim
anal tho ice drift The peril at this
nae OF tAs year is such that pr!s-
oner would know attempted escape
meant death. and the Warden did not
bsaieye nun VINO had only ~ short
,Irne 10 serve would take such q des-
perate chance.
n believe said Warden johnson.
"sahieimann wiil be found In tho
grounds. and vii be back in his cell be-
fore tonight. ] think lie HAS lost his
nl6nd. for he was model prisoner and
waH harry IN the tIiouGnt that he
would sooa gain his freedom. There
ARE 30 many places on the grounds one
can hide II ia possible we may not lo-
cate him beforr several hours. The
TACT that there WAS heavy cAoth!nE
left In the eng ine-fonin Untouched in-
dtcates he did mot leave.
ss4ileiuann and Elizabeth RQbea. whl
was enHaged TO marry MN. We're nr
rested Rt 40, D. EAST roGrln street
The couple said they had been too pooi
fNo.g marry ana nAu taKcn NJ cuuitEg
siiiI7r4..tes tie a.faseiias ilaa s.e.,a
ed they were married IN gHe sT5abs
The police OF New York. VINO were
notined OF tne convict disappearance
are tr9lng 10 INA me young woman
believing that u the man did escape II
IS now with Ger,
! There has been an average OF on,
ese.ipe q year from Sing sing sinlse 1876
Several have tried 10 swim nsm rIY@f
nt4this particular aalson. buI ppne evCI
tipIslss the tiIslt- III iSG5 EUslt h;lt
Pdllister. murdererr. escaped aflt
Jumped into the river Their bodies
Were found on the Ice several day
later.
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