Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-09-11
500 REWARD FOR
ESCAPED CONVICT
LEFT NO. 2 IN JAMESTOWN RAIL-
ROAD YARDS-BLOODH
USED FOR TRAILING.


USED FOR TRAILING.
A telegram was received by Chief
of Police Obermilber late Wednesday
night stating that a convict of the
state penitentiary had escaped and to
look out for the man on train No. 2.
The convict's name is Harry Fosty,
and he rode "blind baggage" from
Bismarck to the jamestown round
house, between the baggage and ex-
press cars.
Usually No. 2 does not stop at the
roundhouse or in the yards west of
the station but runs direct to the de-
pot, where the engines are changed,
but last night was an exception and
the train stopped on account of
switch being turned in the yards, and
during the stop the escaping prisoner
got away in the darkness. Had the
train come into the station he would
have been met " the officers who
were in waiting for him. He still
wore his regulation stripe uniform as
far as known. 1t was known that
Fosty was riding on the train before
he reached jamestown, by the train
men.
, A deputy warden. from Bismarck
arrived on No. 6 early this morning
and with a couple of bloodhounds at
tempted to trace out the fugitive from
where he left the train near the
roundhouse. 1t was known just where
he left the train and that he disap-
peared on the left hand side of the
track.
A reward of 500 has been offered
for the prisoners recapture, by War
den Talcott.
Fosty was sent up from Williams
county for five years, on December
II, 1911, being convicted Of assault
with dangerous weapon. He was
subject to epileptic fits, or pretended
to be, and was allowed to work in the
garden outside the pen walls, with
two other prisoners who were trustys.
It has been the rule that whenever
he said he was not feeling we'll and
felt that an attack of fits was coming
on, he was allowed to go to his cell
and rest. Yesterday afternoon he
made this statement, and was allowed
to return to the prison from the gar
den, but instead of doing so skipped
out. The man weighs 145 pounds, is
33 years of age, has light pale blue
eyes and light brown hair. 1t is sup
posed that he has on one of the coats
of cadet gray which he wore in the
field.
Deputy Warden Briggs and B. H.
Cabanniss, who has charge of the pen
itentiary dogs used in trailing escap-
ed prisoners, after a long search To-
Gated the convict wanted in the brush
or jungle south of the track, about
$3.50 this morning. They were ac-
companied by Sheriff Wright and
were beating through the bush
searching for the man, when the time
keeper for the railroad extra gang
saw Fosty hiding near the track and
notified the sheriff, but the man man
aged to get on a west bound freight
train which just at that time was
moving up the grade and was carried
west towards Eldridge. Sheriff
Wright did not at that time know for
sure that the prisoner had boarded
the train, but started west in an auto
to head of the train and make a
search for him. Messrs. Briggs and
Cabinnass were unable to do much
with the dogs on account of the many
tracks that had passed over the place
where Fosty left No. 2.
The warden has doubled the first
reward of $50 for the recapture of
Fosty. Several shots were fred by
the deputies near the old slaughter
house, as a signal to the sheriff, which
accounts for the report that the con-
vict had been discovered and was be-
ing fred upon.
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