The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-25
Men Start Another Fire and
Hundreds Are Locked
in Cells.
"SQCEALER" Is STABBED
Warden Clancy will Transfer
IS MalcOntcnts to Au-
burn Prison.

o"'N'N". ~ T., July J-Tvo hum
dred and Atty men spent to-day in their
cells because Warden James NJ. CLANCY.
the new head Of the prison. received
word that there would he a fire in the
knitting shop n the convicts employed
there were put to work
One hundred first term men. mostly
East Side rep'atcrs and gangsters. who
WORK in the shoe shop, struck. and we're
locked in their shop all DAY.
convict set a fire in the clothing shop
ana second Are IN the knitting shop
was not set as had been planned only
because Warden Clancy had been told
that 1t was to be done.
The warden. In addition 10 hearing NJ
schemes to set the two fires. was warned
OF something much more serious. "a pro,.
ect Tor general delivery OF prisoners.
The delivery hasn't been attempted vet.
The warden thinks the men planned to
make the dash tomorrow morning. when
sixty-hve second term men are to start
Tor Auburn prison. So well founded was
the warning he got Of the break" that
the task Of getting together the men
selected for the trip to Auburn will be
begun at o'clock tomorrow morning.
although the train does not leave until
s:4o. The men will be pulled out OF their
cells one at a time. Five guards will
handle each man. As fast as two are
taken out they will be shackled together
with handouts and leg irons and hustled
under guard to the prison yard.
Gaassters Ready 70 Ala.
Others besides the OssininR folk count
on delivery before the prison rebellion
is over. Friends Of the East Side gang.
sters who struck In the shoe shop were
wandering all over the village yesterday
with suit cases full OF clothes for the "fel.
lows inside to use to make a quick change
for getaway. The hotels and saloons
did big business. Young men with slickcd
rack hair leaned over bars and boast.d
that all Of ex-Warden Kennedy's friends
would make Warden Clancy wish he'd
never entered prison Tammany Hall.
said these hcelcrs was Kennedy's friend.
The escape Of the burglar who got away
last Saturday and hasn't been caught yet
was only the precursor OF n general break
the word went round. Schoenherr--thats
his name--had got clean away. II was
that he might be dead in the
ruins OF the burned shops. Warden
Clancy said probably not.
A negro prisoner known aS Texas
Jack. one OF those who warned Warden
Clancy of fire threats. will probably pay
with his life for giving the information.
II" works usually In the barber shop,
but was in the shoe shop when the strike
started and was called on by the guards
20 help them drive the men back to their
'"iis tn" prisoners taunted him for
'squcalinG" and chased him from one
md OF the shop to the other. The in
'ormer' was stabbed five times II. threw
open window and was about to jump
'ut when he was pulled back into the
shop and stabbed again.
Texas Jack was taken to the priaon
hospital when tho convicts wcr. auieted.
Dr. Wrenn says ne will die.
Worst Dny Of Revolt.
To-day was the worst day in the prison
'evolt. First tn" warden !. d word thar
Tres would be Set IL ne didn't have every
mop watched from the minute the men
vent to work. He had only fifty.hys
'uards on duty and sent out h,rricdly for
thers' BY night he had scven,y.fve
'rmed men around the place. Tomorrow
morning there will be- ninety guards and
very on" OF them will have his hands
ull shacklinG the men who start for
auburn.
The days struggle began at breakfast
inc. When the men were unl,ckcd ana
marched out with their buckets t,cy .oon
ound that many of their comrades weren't
here. As they entered the mess hall for
BREAKFAST the word spread that the men
'ho had struck In the knitting shop the
ay before weren't To he released this
morning. and neither were the m. n whom
he burning OF the mat, cart and wagon
nd lumber shops had throw Gu. uf work
'ltogether $50 men were not in the morn
ng roundup.
The men In the mess room compared
otes and talked strike They were
,arched to the shops and MS soon as the
90 a. or first time men, who make
hoes. got Inside their shop on the second
oor OF one of the big buildings II was
cen there was going to be trouble. The
yards started to parcel out tools. but the
zen folded their arms
Twenty years or life. what the -
oes II matter to me-" shouted one of
hem as he backed w against the wall,
Clancy IL Called.
The guards began to gather up the
,Ols they had given out and sent for the
arden. Clancy came over on the jump
What's the matter. boys" he asked
a chorus OF shouts and curses was the
My answer, The warden stood his
round. The East Side gangstcrs, who
,ade up most OF the strikers. couldn't
gree on spokcsmen. Ono hulking fellow
houted:
IT'S the food. That ham you gave us
rotten. Yoi want to poison us>'
Let the othsr men on Why have
ou locked up tho u mem" bawled sosno
Tiers
ThA man ~hA haAo't h>>u IA, <s,t