Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-11-03


whom refused In each case Roehl
and Pallister. having received the re-
fusal. locked the cell doors on the
doomed men.
Roehl and Pallister broke through a
skylight. hoisted themselves to the
roof. drorped easily TO the ground
scaled twelve-toot fence. got down to
the riverside, and showed OF in a small
boat. The scene of the escape was
quite near that where Green and his
followers fled the other night
All clues were found false, and no
attempt to capture the men proved
successful. But while on their way
down tho river they quarreled and
one of them shot the other with
llulse's pistol and then committed sui
eide.
Escapes from Sing Sing have not
been very frequent. and no concerted
jailbreaks 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 duck
shaped helmet out of felt obtained
from a hat factory operated in the
prison. He foated ont into the river
with 1t drawn over his head, drifting
with the tide for n mile. when he land
/ cd and made good his escape
Almost Gained Liberty.
Two men were caught once under q
1,~.,
| hauling away from the prison yard. A
guard stationed on the Ossining hluf
noticed that the horse was straininz
harder than usual in making the UP
hill trip and ordered the load throw
| off
| Alfred Walker. who was once
prison contractor. had a flowing beard
| \ prisoner made up a beard like hi:
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 mile away and re
4 captured. Another prisoner. in the
| days before the close supervision ant
the practise of patrolling the walls, at
tempted to ride away on a saddle
4 horse on which contractor named
Anthem Murray had ridden up to tho
| prison The horse was shot from un
der him and he was captured
The most remarkable Jail delivery Ii
4 recent years, before GREEN'S adventure
was recorded, was thing that hap
pened in Sing Sing on July IS last
The sudden sight of an open gate
unguarded and within easy reach
! stirred an unprecedented wanderlus
| in the hearts of several hundred pris
! oners Twelve had the courage O
1 their convictions and broke for liber
! ty, but of these eight wavered ant
turned back when bullets from repeat
| ing rifles in the hands Of assembling
guards began to kick up the dus
about them The four who kept going
enioved period OF hunted freedom
1 lasting for fifteen minutes In the case
Of three of them and an hour for the
! fourth
The break occurred at $50 o'clocl
| and the next two hours were the mos
exciting OF any in the big prison since
4 w dT'lei fioSt ic"h VldlSN' UP 10 tHt
time Of Green's flight The warder
himself was in the prison yard wher
the guards began to shoot from the
north wall. ard he assumed command
of the situation. ordering that the
north gates be swung to and every
/ prisoner inside marched as speedily as
4 possible to his coll
| All work was shut down. and while
the guards pursued the four prisoner
outsle tho So prisoners remaining
that was the number then. In this
prison built to hold 200 we're locked
/ in their cells. from which they coulc
i hear the rifle shots and speculate up