The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-24
FOUR PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM GARRETT Co. JAIL
Leader of Quartet Sawed Through
IaIl Bars While They Sang.

-Four prisoners confined in the Garrett
county jail, awaiting trial at the Deem
Der term of the Circuit Court for Gar
rett county, escaped some time between
midnight Sunday and daybreak Monday.
The cells are of double steel construc-
ton with two corridors, one containing
the cages and which does not give ac-
cess to the windows and the other Civ
ing access to the windows, where some
of the prisoners are permitted TO go
when considered of good behavior.
At 8 o'clock Sunday night Sheriff
Shartzer locked the men up for the
night, when everything seemed to be in
good shape. Among the prisoners es-
Gaping was Charles Sullivan, who was
held on different charges. He was
evidently the one who led the way, as
the bars in his cell were sawed and
twisted so as to give space for the men
to crawl through to the street, and the
jail being only a short distance from the
railway water station, all evidently
made for this place and boarded
freight train.
Two of the charges for which Sullivan
was held were for running away with
the wife of Thomas J Saucer, of Oak
land, and assault and battery upon
Saucer. Mrs. Saucer for a week was
confined in jail, and after libel alton it
is supposed that she in some manner
got saw to Sullivan.
In the early part of Sunday evening
the prisoners were heard singing and
making other noises, which was evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose of drowning the
noise of the saving. The Sheriff and
his family live in the residence part of
the Jail, but the noise did not awaken
them, and they knew nothing of the
escape until they went to call the pris-
oners for breakfast Monday morning.
The other escaped prisoners are
Skinny Bell and Harry Right, both of
Piedmont, W. Va, held for the grand
jury on the charge of stealing brass
from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, and George A. Bittinger, of
near Grantsville, who was in jail for
the action of the grand jury and was
charged with beating his wife.
Three of the men, Sullivan, Bell and
Right, were seen in Keyser, w. Va,
Monday afternoon, to which point
Sheriff Shartzer journeyed but when he
reached there the men had disappeared
This is the second time Bittinger has
escaped from jail. His first escape was
made shortly after he had been convict
ed and sentenced to serve 6 months for
having killed man named Barkholder,
when he dug through the walls of the
old jail.
LATER-The liberty of three of the
escaped prisoners, Skinny Bell, Right
and Sullivan, was of short duration, as
all three Of the men were captured at
Piedmont Tuesday afternoon and even
ing. Right and Sullivan were easily
taken, but Bell, being fleet of foot, led
the officers, in this case Sheriff Davis,
Of Keyser, and Baltimore and Ohio
detective, merry chase over the hills
surrounding Piedmont and was not cap
tured until late in the evening and then
only after he had been repeatedly fired
upon, one bullet passing through his hat
and grazing his skull All three of the
men were brought to Oakland Tuesday
night and are again serenely resting
within the walls of Garrett county's
Jail, where Sheriff Smarter will exert
every endeavor to hold them until the
charges standing against them are dis
posed Of