The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-25

you run risk of breaking your bottle
against them?"
Not the slightest. I have just sent
that much thinner electric lamp
through, but in this case I'll just tie
up the bottle and squirt gun in my
stocking. attach that TO the wire. and
the current will cehthe rest. You can
unload and I'll pull my stocking back
again. II 1 dared wrench of a table
leg. l could perhaps shove bottle and /
syringe through 10 you from here, but
the material would come TO a dead cen /
ter in the middle Of this tunnel unless /
l had a stick to push it within your I
reach.
every well: We'll work away until /
our excavation connects and we have |
made it of sufficient diameter for you
to squeeze through. You are then in |
EAy CELL We put out our lights, and |
you conceal yourself behind the door.
Jailer and man with the lantern come
in. You must be very careful not to
close the door, because IL you once
shove 1t shut we can't open 1t from this
side, even though IT is unlocked and
the bolts drawn. 1t fits like wax and
almost Theoretically seals the room.
/ You spring forward and deal the jailer
with your fist one Of your justly cele-
brated English Touchdown blows, Inn
mediately after Telling the man with
the lantern. Knowing something OF
the weight of your blow. take it that
neither OF the two men will recover
consciousness until we have taken off
their outer garments. secured reyolv-
ers and keys. Then we lock them in,
you and on the outside"
'My dear Jack. we don't need any
tunnel to accomplish that. The first
time these two men come into my
room l can knock them down as easily
here as there"
81 thought of that, and perhaps you
could, but you must remember we have
only one shot. If you made a mistake,
If the lantern man bolted and fired his
pistol and once closed the door-he
would not need to pause to lock it
why, we are done for. l should be
perfectly helpless in the next room,
and after the attempt they'd either
QlOWA Us VI put AulO NOAoO (SIlo do
far apart as possible"
st don't think 1 should miss fire."
said Drummond confidently "Still
see the point and will obey orders"
''siy official position on the rock ever
since / arrived has been that of cleo
trical tutor in chief to the governor. 1
have started his dynamo working and
have wired such portions of the place
as were not already wired before.
During these lessons have kept my
eyes open. So far as the prison is con-
cerned, there are the governor. a sort
of head clerk, the jailer and his assist
ant-four men, and that IS all. The
jailer's assistant appears to be the
cook of the place, although the cook
ing done is of the most limited descrip-
ton. The black bread is brought from
st. Petersburg, l think, as also timed
meat and soup, so the cuisine is on a
somewhat limited scale"
do you mean to say that only these
four men are in charge of the prison"
practically so, but there is the gar
|, rison as well. The soldiers live in a
suit of rooms directly above US, and
are fourteen men and two officers.
> When a steamer arrives, they draft as
many soldiers as are necessary, IN
; load the boat, and then the Tommies go
upstairs again. The military section
apparently holds little intercourse with
the officials, whom they look upon as
jailers. / should judge that the mill
tary officer is chief OF the rock because
: when he found the governors room lit
l by electricity he demanded the same
for his quarters. That's how l came
: to get upstairs. Now, these stairs are
: hewn in the rock, are circular, guarded
by heavy oaken doors top and bottom
and these doors possess steel bolts on
both sides of them. 1t is thus possible
for either the military authorities up
stairs or the civil authorities to isolate
themselves from the others. In case
of revolt among the soldiers the gov
ernor could bolt them into their attic
and they would find great difficulty II
getting out Now, my plan of pro
| cedure is this: We will disarm jailel
and assistant, take their keys, outside
garments and caps. The jailer's tog
gerry will fit you. and the other fellow
may do for me. Then we will loci
them in here, and If we meet clerk o.
governor in the passages we Will hav,
time to overcome either or both befor
| they are aware Of the change. I'll e
| up the circular stair, bolt from the in
| side the upper door and afterward Dol
| the lower door. Then we open all tn
| cells and release the other prisoners
! descend from the rock. get into tn
| Finnish fishing boat. keep clear Of tn
| two cannon that are up above us an
sail for the Swedish coast. We can
miss it. We have only to travel wes1
and ultimately we are safe. There
80 only one danger, which is that we ma
make nnr attarnnf when the steamer