Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-12
Watkins Arrests Old Offender
Who Was Violating The
Law Al Wing
viii Investigate the Reason
Reilly Was Not COmplet-
ing jail Sentence
Man Sought to Get Away
During Night in Officers
Automobile

j. Reilly, who was supposed to be
serving sentence in the Burleigh
county Jail, was arrested early Sun
day morning near Wing, n. D., by
+. l.. Watkins, constable and officer
of the enforcement league. Reilly
was brought back to the city by Wat.
kins and is now safely locked behind
the bars. How Reilly managed to be
out of Jail when his sentence did not
expire until some time during Sep
TENDER is puzzling to the authorities
and will undoubtedly be hard to ex-
plain.
Watkins accompanied by Fred
Carstens were making a search
through the northern part of the
county for bootleggers when they &C
cidentally ran across Reilly. Watkins
when interviewed by Tribune rep
resentative this afternoon had the
following to say concerning the ar
rest: II was making search
through the northen part of the coun-
ty endeavoring to .ocate some blind
pigs that had been reported to me.
We stopped at Wing Saturday night
at the Knowles residence. We left
the car out in front Of the barn when
we went to bed. About 6 o'clock
Sunday mornig Carstes was awak.
ened by the chugging Of an autorno'
bile which he recognized to be his.
We got up Immediately and investi.
gated and saw man trying to make
his get away in the car. ! managed
to step on the running board white
the car was travelling at fair rate
of speed. ] was surprised to see
Reilly at the wheel thinking that he
was in Jail. He stopped the car and
l put him under arrest. Reilly must
have had communication with some
one in Bismarck or he would never
attempted to make his getaway In
our car" +
Mr.. Watkins cannot understand
Just why Reilly was out of Jail and
states that he intends to make thor
ough examination of the affair. Dur
ing his conversation Watkins stated
ABOUT two weeks ago he was inform
ed that Reilly was working In Morton
county and when he went to arrest
him he had disappeared. On his re-
turn to Bismarck he found Reilly back
in Jail.
How Reilly has managed to leave
the Jail when he liked and returned
when he got ready is mystery that
Watkins intends to unravel.
Tailor Lee, Explains Why.
Melvin A. Lee, who has the distlnc-
ton of being turnkey of the Burleigh
county Jail, when interviewed this
afternoon concerning Reiliy's absencs
from the Jail, stated that Reilly es-
capped Friday night. He stated that
he and Reilly were setting out on the
court house lawn and at about nine
o'clock the telephone rang and he
got up to answer the phone and left
Rely sitting on the lawn. After
conversing over the telephone he re-
turned to get Reilly to put him in his
cell but found that he had escaped.
Sheriff Barnes was away from
home and did not return until late
hour and therefore he was unaware
of the fact that Reilly had escaped.
Lee stated that Barnes left early the
next morning on another trip and did
not attempt to locate Reilly that day.
He was just preparing to make q
search for Reilly when watkins re-
turned him to the jail. For some un-
known reason Reilly's escape was not
made public.
Reilly has seemed to have had
much freedom Of late but it is sur
missed that from hereafter Reilly will
not be given as much freedom as he
has enjoyed in the past.
ORGANIZE TO FIGHT MURPHY.
Special to The Tribune.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. IA
movement to rescue the democratic
party in New York state from the
domination OF Charles F. Murphy, the
Tammany Hall leader, was launched
here today at conference of mum.
Der of representative leaders Of the
party, including several members OF
the state committee. The especial OBJ
iect Of the movement Is to prevent
the Tammany Hall leader from die.
tating. the actions of the Going state
convention. 1t is hoped to accomp'
lish this by making the fight in every
county to send delegates to the con.
vention who are opposed to Murphy