New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-20
CATCH TOMBS FUGITIVE
Philadelphia Police Arrest
George Wilson for Robbery.
BOASTS OF HIS EXPLOITS
Plot OF Prisoners to Escape
from Raymond Street Jail
Discovered in Time.

Philadelphia, Sept ls.-George Wilson.
VINO was arrested in railroad station
mere this afternoon, confessed. the police
say, that he had escaped from the Tombs
prison, New York, on July last.
The police Of Philadelphia were watch
ing for Wilson on advices from the At
landc City authorities, who said he was
wanted at the seaside resort on charges
Of having committed many robberies.
When taken before Captain Cameron at
the City Hall. Wilson Dragged about his
achievements In crime as II he was proud
OF his record. He gleefully told how he
had escaped from the Tombs, and said
the revolver taken from him when he
was captured was the identical one he
had stolen from Tombs guard and used
TO force his way out OF the iail.
Wilson said he had picked the pistol
from the pocket Of the guard who had
charge OF the tier In which he was I'M
prisoned during recreation hour. The
guard did not miss II until that same
night. when he suddenly looked into its
muzzle az IL was held in the hands OF
Wilson. who was in his cell
Wilson made the guard open his cell
door, AID escorting him TO the end OF the
corridor. took the key TO the door lead
ing into the yard from him and locked
him IN an empty cell II was little trou-
BILE TO Wilson, once he was in the yard.
10 climb over the wall and jump into the
street
A general jail delivery was narrowly
averted at the Raymond street Jail.
Brooklyn. by the vigilance OF the keepers.
on "Wednesday night. and the arrest Of
a young woman yesterday afternoon. has.
in the opinion Of the police. placed all
the conspirators in the hands OF the
authorities
The keepers discovered Wednesday
night that two bars of the gate. seven
eighths OF an inch thick. OF cell No. T..
on the ground tier. had been sawed
through at the bottom in such a manner
that they could be broken loose readily
and used as weapons by the prisoner.
Harry Miller. a confessed burglar The
removal OF the bars would have left
an opening large enough for the prisoner
10 get through to the corridor.
The prisoner was removed and tho cell
searched. The keepers found an eight
inch hacksaw and a bottle OF hydro
chloric acid. Further search showed the
doors OF cells No. s and No. s OF the
same tier. occupied, respectively, by
George Becker and Charles Loehr. both
urder charges Of burglary in the first
degree. had been similarly sawed.
Warden Thomas J. Kane had the three
prisoners placed in close confinement. lie
learned that Miller had been visited on
the afternoons Of Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday by a young woman. and he
concluded that she had brought tho sa"
and acid into the jail.
This woman reappesred at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon and YVES seized and
turned over TO the natron. Catherine
sIayin. who searched the girl and found
a bottle OF acid and a siN-incn sa" IN
her right shoe.
detective Martin Dovney took the wonl-
AN 10 the Adams street police court "here'
v,hen arraigned before Magistrate Handy
che said she was Mrs Stella Moore, twenty
two YEAR. old. OF No. 2Is East 1th street
Manhattan. and was a telephone operator
Her husband 1t is said by the police, IL
serving a sentence for burglary on Black
Wells Island. and is n friend OF Miller
r,ha uvoman's husband y said 20 be Harry
N,oskouitz. who goes under the alias or
Moore. Moore and Miller formerly hved
IN the same house.
The woman denied that she had taken
tho ,av and acid to Miller, and SAID enc
did not intend the saw and acid found IN
her shoe for him. Magistrate Handy held
her in a.. 900 bail and sent her to the Ray
mond street Jail
Warden Kane said last night that the
only reason the woman had gone 10 the
soil with another saw and another bottle
~ acid was, I'm his opinion. to hclp III
waking possible a general Jail delivery
Miller was arrested, with Louis kapior'
ON August 20, In the house OF Nelson +.
lewis chief engineer of the Board OF ~
,imate and Apportionment at No. 1bll
Alber.arle Road. 4 Waterman sa" them
end called the police in time to eaten
.ha,, redbanded Miller was armed. They
later pIeaded guilty 10 burglary In the
third degree. and are awaiting sentence
packer and Loehr are awaiting trlal.