The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-01

MAKE ESCAPE
Five Canadian Criminals
Beat up Keepers and Flee
From Penitentiary.

Kingston. Ont. May 1.-When aft
err desperate fight on a train with
the guards who were bringing them
to the penitentiary. Frank JONES' Har-
ry Kelly. George Brown and Arthur
Bonner, the four desperadoes who
We're sent here from the Stony Noun
tain penitentiary in Manitoba be-
cause 1t was feared that institution
was not strong enough to hold them.
Kelly remarked to one of the guards,
oh! you won't keep us long in King
ston." he was not testing. Today he
and his three compa Mons proved this
to be the case when they made one
of the most sensational escapes in the
history Of prisons. Guard Ruther-
ford. who was in charge Of the nortl,
gate to the penitentiary yard. at noon
noticed what he supposed was a saua d
of prisoners coming along from the
isolation building in charge of cou-
pie Of armed guards. He opened the
gate and let them through. AS the
man In uniform nearest the gatekeep-
er arrived at the gate. he felled Ruth
erford with the butt of revolver,
and Immediately the five made wild
dash for liberty. When Rutherford
came to his senses and realized what
happened. he raised the alarm. and a
few minutes later guards and police
men were rushing in every direction
in search of the five desperadoes.
The fugitives made a dash through,
the grounds of the residence of War
den Platt. Guard Mccarthy was on
duty on the grounds. and made a
rush for the fleeing prisoners. but
they hit him over the head with a
club and continued their flight.
Took Horse and Wagon.
fugitives captured horse and waE-
on which a farmer was driving past
ThoWing the farmer out. they piled
into the wagon and whipped up the
horses. A tthe end of the road they
abandoned the Quilt and struck into
the country in various directions
Meantime the penitentiary bell was
pealing loudly, and it put everybody
alive to the fact that prisoners had
escaped. Mounted Scout Patton frs,
sighted the prisoners and gave chase
George Brown, the husky ruffian who
held the young Snowflake schoo
teacher prisoner in the Manitoba
woods for two days. darted into the
prison quarry and was caught by In.
structor Beupre. He went back te
the prison swearing like a pirate
| Kelly struck down toward the village
of Portsmouth. and finding the chase
was getting too warm for him, rar
into barn. He was seen going ir
by some children. who told a guard
who went in and captured the des.
perado. He made no resistance. The
other three. which included Nincen,
Mcneil, who was sent down for five
years from Woodstock four months
ago, had in the mea antilne dro--,nt' ou,
of sight.
1t developed later that Jones. who
wore the uniform of a guard. went in.
to a farm house and saving that some
prisoners had escaped from the peni-
tentiary, asked for a revolver or CUR
of some kind. He said that he had
lost his. The farmers Wife told hin,
she had not such thing in the house
and having her suspicious by reason
Of the mans closely shaven head. she
|telephoned to the penitentiary. Jones
quickly made off.
Took to Water.
a party of guards finally sighted
Bonner and Mcneil on tho front road
near the lakes. When the convicts
saw them coming they jumped into
the water amid shower of bullets
from the guards weapons. The Off.
GERS stood on the bank and peppered
at the men in the water as they en-.
deavored to swim out of range. theil
idea no doubt being to gain one o.
the islands and get across into the
United States. They ducked unde,
the water Whenever the bullets whis
tied in their direction The waite,
was ice cold and they soon had to give
in. Chattering with cold the two
were taken back to the prison. There
was no fight left in them. in fac
they seemed glad to get back to the
pen. 1t was thought that Jones. the
fifth man. had made his escape wher
the message from the farmers wife
came over the phone. That gave the
officers a clue to the direction he had
taken and they soon came on him or
the Straubenzie farm. When he saw
Guard Driscoll bearing down on him
with shout. Throw up your hands,
Jones obeyed quickly. The rife in
the guards hands looked wicked. ~
might as we'll give up, but If had
got a gun I would have made you
hump before you got me-" he said
Seventeen years is long time tc
do"
At the penitentiary the Ave men
were placed in separate cells in the
dungeon. They may be sentenced to
receive lashes for the way they beat
up Guard Davis.
Have Given Constant Trouble.
To begin at the real beginning here
is how it all happened:
Since their arrival at the pen the
western desperadoes have been CIV
ing the prison officials a lot Of trou-
BILE. They refused to obey orders,
cursed the keepers. and were general
batRgdeb7toreof q Join DIN innnn
~ incorrigible. Consequently they
have been kept most Of the time in
solitary confinement. It is the custom
to allow one man out in the corridor
to clean up. Today this happened to
be Vincent Mcneil, q man from wod-
stock who is serving five years for
burglary. He too has been on bad
behavior.
Used Wall Tapping.
Apparently the five prisoners in the
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