Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-29
Following Evening Bsll d,Re
Desperate Men Easily
Scale high Walls
Darkness Of the Night Gave
Men q GOOD Lead Over
Their Pufsuers
Stranger Wounded BY The
Warden Was Trying to
Board Freight Train

At late hour this afternoon E.
G. Robinson, probably the most des.
perate of the four convicts who made
their escape from the penitentiary
last night. was overtaken by the
guards near Mckenzie. He was held
there until the arrival of No. 3. when
he was returned to the pen. He Of
fered no resistance to the 0fficers
whatever, and he was not placed In
irons when he was brought back to
Bismarck.
Frank Erwin, Edwin Ross, Harry
Lewis and E. G. Robinson, all first
grade prisoners, made an escape from
! the rpenitentiary last evening about
eight O'clock by going over the prison
wall. ,3s5
1t appears that large number OF
the inmates Of the institution were
engaged in a game OF baseball In the
yards, and that in the dusk following
the twilight of the early evening, the
men above named managed to escape
the notice of the guards for few
minutes and the last seen of them
was when they were disappearing
lover the garden wall"
One OF the guards saw the men
going over but as he was unarmed he
was only able to give an alarm. and
when the officials of the prison had
hurried around the wall the men had
escaped in the dusk.
The bloodhounds were sent out on
the trail but on account Of the fact
that their regular trainer was away
from the prison on short leave OF
absence the dogs we're able to do but
little. Automobiles were secured and
a hurried search OF the surrounding
country was made, bua up to N early
hour this morning there had been
nothing heard from the fugitives.
Stranger Shot Ia leg.
Warden Hellstrom who was In one
of the searching parties that went
near Mckenzie saw q man who was
attempting to get aboard q train and
called on him to halt, but when the
suspect kept on going the, warden
shot at him, striking him In the leg
and inflicting flesh wound. The
wounded man was taken to the hospi-
tai at the prison where he Is being
cared for and it is not expected that
the injuries will prove serious.
Fugitives Headed East. s%
As near as can be learned the men
who escaped made for the East and
it was in that direction most Of the
searching parties we're sent The con
victs escaped over the east wall OF
the prison and have had but little
chance to get far AZ M
Description Of th6 Men.
Edwin Ross is one Of the most des-
perate criminal confined in the
North Dakota institution, and has Z
number of charges hang -ng over him
in addition to the one he is doing
time tor. He is at the present time
serving 81 year sentence for safe.
blowing, having been convicted about
six years ago Of breaking into "
store and postoffice and entering the
safe. Ross has been caught in sew
eral attempts to escape but has al
ways been detected In time before.
d Z. G. Robinson belonged to theta
NOUS Sawyer gang OF bank robbers
and was one Of four convicted Of the
crime, He is serving 9 sentence OF
seventeen years and six months, and
was sent up little over seven years
ago. Robinson 10 the man who was
mixed up in cutting atfray ct the
pen last winter In which iConroy, an
other convict was quite seriously Ia
jured. He Is . man about dvs feet
eleven inches IN heighth. weighs 145
pounds, is Of medium dark com
plexion, has the initials ~. q. n. ut.
tooed on one Of his arms ana sword
on the other. ne has agbullet wound
in his ankle and walks With y decided
limp. He received the wound at tho Y
hands " deputy Shsfik while. he
was endeavoring to escaps arrest ct.
ser the bank robbery
Frank Lewis wAs cent up from
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