The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-10
EASY ESCAPE FROM sing sing
TEN WHITES WORN WITH 4
HACkSaT DED THE TRICk.
LATE Prisoner ono &C tine TIVE mat go
Away. and He's stilI at Large NeI
the Nsin Prison ThAt Thry s:at out %.
hot n MakeshiGt sing sing Crowded

Two prisoners escaped from one Of tbs
factory shops used ~ a dormitory in the
ward of sing Sing PRISON at O'Clock yea
tcrday morning One Of the prisoners
Alexander Devoe. was under life sen
tsnoe for the killing Of Lefty Boyle in this
city in 1897. the other. John Clark. was
serving a four years term for burglary.
There are some people outside Of SING
Sing who are OF the opinion that " the
stat" does not hurry up with relief for
the "vsrcTowding Of the prison this prac-
tice ~ escape will become habit there,
because u - - hard job for Warden Frost
securely 10 restrain Just the kind Of men
who are sent to Sing Sng when he has no
more secure places a. confne them than a
chapel. a hospital and factory. those
are the places Ut confinement 81 Gas Of
| the prisOner- and even 80 there arr about
! 100 prisoners sleeping two m n cell.
| The two men who escaped yesterday
! were good. that u. from the PRISON dis
/ Cipline viewpoint. Otherwise they would
not have been drafted into the dormitOry
| squad The hest behaved prisoner.
/ without regard to their behavior before
| they became PRISON inmates. are taken
] from the overcrowded cell rooms and
sleeping quarters are given them in one Of
the TIRES yard buildings used az dOrini-
tories.
Devoe and Clark worked IN the wagon
factory Among the tools in that factory
are hACkzaNs. used for cutting iron A.
knocked time each afternoon the convict
workmen hand over to the free foreman
! their work tools That is they are SUD
I poaed 10. Rrit there are many prisoners
uslnK many tools and tho inventory il
taken rapidly and amid some con
fusion
These were the circumstances which
permitted sither Devoe ar Clark to psAss
~ on his foreman At otIT quitting time a
woodon saw. shipping the genuine little
strip 81 steel AxT@ssn inches long up hts
shirt sleeve. That Wa their inst move
toward escape,
The most Dorth~rIy factory in the
I prison yard. formerly used for making
ilnware, ~ the on. whose second floor
has been converted into \ dormitory.
D~voe and clark were among he 10
prisoners who slept there In a corner
! 81 tbs. hig roo'r - toilet scrs-ned nv
a half door which also hides from tbs,
view ~ any me IN The main room the
lower part nj window. THIS window,
like all others on that foor was barred
hv seven -sighths inch iron rods.
good workman can cut through such -
rod with the kind of saw the conspirators
had ~ ten minutes ~ " was not much
"f a job for the two men. alternating their
work. TO divide one of these hArs
The rest wAs Easy. Tn. har hent
'ar hark afforded space enough for a
man to crawl through Th~re were a
drop of fifteen feet - the yard. a sixteen
foot iron fencs between the yard and
rvsr to climb, a vet cold scramble over
broken iCs. 10 a pier south ~ the prison
and the two scantily clad e-.ap~a WEIR
h"ating N down the New York 1nntrsl
track, az t-otIrzs they headed for New
York
IN" guard inside tho dorinuory after
fifteen minutes or 80 became suspicious
aud went L. the closet and gave the alarm.
The prison whistle blow. and all guards ~
duty hurried tO inin IN the search. and the
man ~ night duty In the office hogan 10
work the telephone 10 nearl'y towns
Iw" hours later poli'r Snrgpant Up-
lanCv ~ Tsrrytown going his rounds.
saw tvo hatles- and roatless men hurry
tug along 'he Old post road and although
he had no' heard - the tels phone me-sags
from sung sing he made a good gvIe-- and
gave Cha-s The mon SEPARATED hiit
Delaney caught ore. tlark and landed
HIM m the Tsrryto~n jail J,i-i a. the desk
man there Was answering a -''c"nh call
from sing Sing
Warden Fro-t never volunteers tuforma-
ton, huT' he never refuse to reporters
IN answer 10 QUESTIONS Yesterday he told
these facts sho'It the population ~ Grim
nal- no has charge - and the housing
CAPACITY he has for them
The total cell capacity II sing Sing
viii provide fer i.2no prisoners ono 10 4
cell Yesterday census showed that
there wer- sS2 Cpnvtc's housed there.
IN iao7 the Convic' population was 20
aud last year was 7al Nhen he was
rr-' obliged ~ md accommodations
outside - Tho "ells for convict sleeping
quarters Warden Frost made uGa ~ the
Protestant chapel. = room about iSn fee'
square. over The biy mess hall where the
prisoners at~ fed N the morn ing and az
noon Row If prison made ~ota PLACED A.
'lC-0 together may TO. with passage
Navs between douhl" rive. made -lesp- /
me places fpT 80
Next the -~Cond fonr IT the I'm fa~tory /
va. similarly ttt.-d ~ accommodate 9Oo F.
and he Old hos IT. I Was made over into a
durmfory for ivy five rnor,'. THIS cN- /
h1u-'nsi hi- available outside -pars. and |
We. ..hlctautly tho warden h-aRan plar-
ug tWo pri-ou~r- ~ = cell until about /
hundred were 80 provided with sleeping ,
quarter
Al tlt- trr-e new prson- were promised |
The now PRISON ~ tornzfo"k Vas started |
and yearly roIupotssi with RI" uioney |
PROVIDED SySH.'S Their - Az Appro- |
priation hiil "a the present Legislature, |
To- prrvid.. rhs sum u,~- --ary To- fuish
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