Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-11-12

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
Hulse'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 f1oated out into the river
with it 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 barrelstaves a contractor was
hauling away from the prison yard. A
guard stationed on the Ossining bluff
| 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 a
prison contractor, had 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
Anthem Murray had ridden up to the
| prison. The horse was shot from I'M
der him and he was captured.
The most remarkable jail delivery in
recent years, before Green's adventure
was recorded. was a thing that hap
pened in Sing Sing on July % last.
The sudden sight of an open gate,
unguarded and within easy reach,
stirred an unprecedented wanderlust
in the hearts of several hundred pris-
oners. Twelve had the courage of
their convictions and broke for nber-
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
1
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 fight. 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 to hold 1 ,2O0-were locked
in their cells, from which they could
hear the rifle shots and speculate up
on the fate of the four who were miss
ing.
1t was not due to the craftsmanship
of the guards that the prisoners were
} recaptured. One of them ran a dis
lance of 400 yards under fire and fell
from exhaustion. Another made fol
an fee house in the fiat north of the
prison wall, and succeeded in reaching
; 1t, only to be discovered by a search
) ing party as he was attempting Il
crawl under the floor third made {
clump of bushes 400 yards away II
spite of the bullets that spattereC
around him, and was hunted out o
his hiding place.
The fourth had as exciting an ex
perience as any dime novel hero coult
a wish for. He worked his way alon,
> the prison wall directly beneath tn,
|, guard towers, where he was in cas-,
D range. scaled a stone wall that wa
i higher than his head. braved a MAJ
s OF railroad signal wires in leaping t