Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-25
Attempted To Saw Way Out Of Jail
Released Prisoner Gets Saws and Passes hem in Man derville Hall at Kingston-Westery Listrict Nurse Association Gets Over 1000 Tag Day-Other Mat ters of Interest in Westerly.

Granite Citv company of Westerly was represented at the meeting of tn,
 officers of the First Rhode Island regi. ment, Uniformed Rank, Knights oi | Pythias, in Providence, Tuesda~ even l ing, for the purpose of electing a col
 onel to succeed Col Hiram D. Murray
 who resigned after four years of sat
 isfactory service. Major Maurice P Burnside of the Second battalion was
 elected colonel, and Capt. William G.
 Davis was promoted to be major.
 Colonel Burnside announced the ap-
 pointment of Capt. Charles P. Long
 as quartermaster. J. K. Carter as ad
 Jutant and William c. Gardner as commissary. Other staff appointments
 will be announced later.
 John R. Wilcox, sheriff of Washing ton county, arrested John Franklin, in East Greenwich Tuesday, on a charge of breaking and entering the residence ot Augustine Hazard at Narragansett Pier on Tuesday night of last week. Among the articles stolen was a dou- hSe- barreled breach loading shot gun which was sold by Franklin to a sum- mer guest, Franklin was held in bonds of Sl,OOO for appearance before Judge N. B. Lewis in Wakefield, Monday Franklin has served terms in the state pt iSOu lOr burglary.
 Vaudeville Hall, the New York Gay Lothario, who is in the Kingston jail charged, With issuing fraudulent checks on the Fifth Avenue bank, upon Col. Adolph Dick. proprietor of the New W9<ch Hill house, was detected cut tiRg the bars of his cell in an en- Heavor to escape. Sheriff Wilcox was satisfied that Hall had outside as- sistance and suspected David Thomp- son, a former prisoner, whom he ar rested Monday night The accused was arraigned in the district court at Wakefield, charged with furnishing tools to aid prisoner to escape plead ed not guilty. and was held in bonds of $lOOO for trial next Monday.
 Sheriff Wilcox says that through Thompson's aid two prisoners received saws with which they were trying to cut through the bars of their cells. thompson was prisoner in the jail until Aug. 6 and while there he picked Yp an acquaintance with Vaudeville Hall. now the most noted prisoner at the institution, and also with Will liam Ray who Is in jail pending the action of the court on an assault case.
 Thompson was released on the aft ernoon of Aug. 6, and was taken to the Kingston railway station, where he received a ticket for Providence. He left the train at East Greenwich and | purchased a hack saw with three extra | blades That night Sheriff Wilcox was away and Thompson returned to | Kingston and to the jail He passed | the saws to Hall. through the window | Df the cell. after cutting. away the | screen just outside the bars
 Sheriff Wilcox on the following night | vas awakened by noise in the iail | md made investigator. He found | Hall saving the bars, and as the sher- If approached, Hall dropped the saw | nto the bed and feigned sleep. One l Jar had been cut through and Hall vas at work on the second when sur ,rised by the sheriff Suspicion was t once attached to Thompson. and the herif kept his own counsel looking meanwhile for some trace of Thomp- on.
 Sunday the sheriff received fnforna-