Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-11-10
Diagram of tho Escape at Sing Sing.

quite near that where Green and his
followers fed the other night.
All clues were found false, and no
attempt TO capture the men proved
successful. But while on their way
down the river they quarreled. and
one OF them shot the other with
lIulse's pistol and then committed sui
eide.
Escapes from Sing Sing have not
been very frequent, and no concerted
jail-breaks have been successful Be
fore the tall iron fence was built along
the river front prisoners sometimes es-
capped over the Hudson Ice in winter.
Once prisoner constructed a duck
shaped helmet out Of felt obtained
from a hat factory operated In the
prison. He floated out into the river
with II drawn over his head. drifting
with the tide for a mile, when he land
ed and made good his escape.
Almost Gained Liberty
Two men were caught once under a
load Of barrel-staves contractor was
hauling away from the prison yard. A
guard stationed on the Ossining blum
noticed that the horse was straining
harder than usual in making the up
hill trip and ordered the load thrown
off.
Alfred Walker. who was once q
prison contractor, had a flowing beard.
A prisoner made up a beard like his
and drove out OF the prison in the bug
gy in which he had Just driven in,
none OF the guards suspecting him. He
was overhauled a mile away and re-
captured. Another prisoner. in the
days before the close supervision and
the practise OF patrolling the walls, at
tempted to ride away on saddle
horse on which a contractor named
Anthon Murray had ridden up to the
prison The horse was shot from un-
der him and ne was captured.
The most remarkable Jail delivery in
recent years. before Green's adventure
was recorded, was a thing that hap
pened I'm Sing Sing on July 2S last.
The sudden sight OF an open gate.
unguarded and within easy reach.
stirred an unpremeditated wanderlust
in the hearts OF several hundred pris-
oners. Twelve had the courage OF
their convictions and broke for liber-
ty. but OF these eight wavered and
! turned back when bullets from repeat
ing rifles in the hands OF assembling
guards began TO kick up the dust
about them. The four who kept going
enioyed a period OF hunted freedom
lasting for fifteen minutes in the case
OF three OF them and an hour for the
fourth.
Two Hours Of Excitement.
The break occurred at $50 O'Clock
and the next two hours were the most
exciting Of any in the big prison since
Warden Frost took charge. up to the
time OF Green's flight The warden
himself was in the prison yard when
the guards began to shoot from the
north wall. and he assumed command
OF the situation, ordering that the
north gates be swung TO and every
prisoner inside marched as speedily as
possible to his cell.
All work was shut down, and while
the guards pursued the four prisoners
outside the 1882 prisoners remaining
that was the number then. in this
prison built 10 hold 1,200-were locked
in their cells, from which they could
hear the rife shots and speculate up
on the fate OF tho four who were miss
ing.
II was not due TO the marksmanshiI
OF the guards that the prisoners wer,
recaptured. One OF them ran dis
tanco OF 200 yards under Are and fel
from exhaustion. Another made To-
an fee house in the nat north OF tn,
prison wall and succeeded in reaching
II. only TO be discovered by a search
ing party as he was attempting /,
crawl under the floor A third made
clump OF bushes 400 yards away II
spite OF the bullets that spattere,
around him. and was hunted out O
his hiding place.
The fourth had as exciting an ex
perience as any dime novel hero coul,
! wish for. He worked his way aloni
the prison wall directly beneath tn
guard towers, where he was In eas,
range, scaled stone wall that wa
higher than HIS head. braved a maz
of railroad signal wires In lsapinK 4