Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-10

ne police were not notified until early
and every policeman in Newark ana
men, Not one has beer retakeu
Inc men who escaped are
hooert Defino, 9s years Old, IL IA
M~cDougal street. New York cifv.
steven Reape. 22Nyears old ~ 10
Boycen street, Newark.
f1oaNert Miller. ~ years old. Or IL
York city. 80
Louis Schmidt. 2e wears a,a
schenectady, N. Y.
William Abuto, 20 years old. Of a
west Grand street. Elizabeth.
When the five escaped the ,hree
keepers on duty, Julius K
Walter Cain and Matthew orBrien
were on the third tier investirafinr
what they thought was an atfempt Il
suicide.
Heard Means ON Upper Tier.
Inc Keepers entered the north r.inp
a few minutes after . O'Clock ~ jfc+
tine cells for the night. Their aften-
ton was attracted by moani1-
which seemed 10 come from ~. -
the cells in the third tier.
wonder what the trot,h,e
asked Mckinney.
ne turned insrinrtively to steven
heape, a go~od-natnred trusty. VIVA
was on friendly terms with every
II sounds to me if someone ~
n e kill himself" -he replied
Come ahead cried Kahn, dashinr
toward the stairs.
The other two keepers foilousas hi-
put the moaning they went to in
'sstigate was a ruse-the clever
seneIhe OF the I'VE conspirators.
Two prisoners from the third f;er
a been smuggled down 10 the 5rrr
hidden in a cell before the keen
ers had appeared.
They crept cautiously from the cell
Is the Keepers went up the stairway.
iNo Prisoners stole fika
shadows from a cell and Joined them
heape' the trusty. threw the lever
lhat opened the outer, s-teei-barred
ooor- Then he m~otioned to the four
and dashed into the corridor.
Al h end of it was a door. rarely
used, opening into the court. This
door was locked-at least Warden
McGulnness says It was. Whether
the door was open or NOT the men
got out with not an instant's DELAY.
1hey rushed across the court TO the
heavy iron-covered gate, twelve feet
high. On either side was the brick
and-stone prison wall, extremely diff
cult to scale.
For the five desperate prisoners to
climb the gate. however. was a SIM
pie matter. The latch gave them a
first foothold. Three feet above was
the joint Of the sheet-Iron-a long.
thick ridge. They dropped from the
gate top into Wilsey street and fed.
As soon al the three keepers found
that the grooming had been feigned
they surmised that there was trouble
ahead and hurried down again to the
first tier.
Told of the Jail delivery, Warden
McGuinness summoned Keepers
Leonard, Walden, Fitzgerald, Fischer
and Kain and led them personally in
the hunt.
e. was AAOAAt-A4A a0Oat LLE LlOLAIE8
of the men to stamp them as escaped
prisoners. As it was comparatively
early in the evening. the five could
have walked through the street and
boarded a trolley car or train without
exciting n comment. This. nc
doubt. accounts for the success OF
their escape.
Rumor of Other Jail Deliveries.
Warden McGuinness was asked to-
day whether it was true hat there
had been two other Jail deliveries
since November, when Sheriff Mona
han took office. and. if there had.
why they had been hushed up. He
said thai only one man had escaped
a prisoner who was sentenced in Mo-
vember for violating a city ordinance.
He was allowed to work outside.
sweeping the sidewalk and doing
similar work. A day or two before
his time was UP he disappeared.
The warden did not remember who
the prisoner was, what time he had
been serving or under what sheriff
the escape took place
However. there have been other jail
deliveries.
The records show that Anthony
Gomez. twenty-five years old. a Span
lard. escaped from the Jail yard
while being led into the jail by Po-
licemen Thomas Campbell and John
Sickles, February Is. 1911 He was
captured after swimming across the
canal. in Newark street, BY Lieufen-
ants John Harris and John J. Mtcon-
nall A shot from the formerss REVOLT
yer resulted in the death Of the