Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-07-31
DREGS OF CRIMINAL CLASS.
SccOnd-Tcrm Men Enrnged mt Being
Taken Far from Friends.

Ossining. y. Y, July 25.-Sixtv convicts,
the dregs of the New York criminal class,
We're taken one by one from their cells in
Sing Sing prison to-day and placed
aboard a train for the state prison at
Auburn. Recent riots in Sing Sing caused
the warden to take no chances. Each con-
Wet was heavily handcuffed and shackled
and then chained to his place In the rail-
road car which had been brought inside
the prison enclosure. ! hundred prison
guards did this work while in the State
armorY, not far away. a company of
militia waited for a call to protect the
town In case the transfer of convicts re-
suited in a prison mutlnv.
The crisis to which the stormy events
of the past two days have been leading
was expected at Sing Sing to-day beca use
the second-term men, who are being
transferred to Auburn. have led the re-
cent mutinies. They were enragcd be-
, cause so many of them were to he sent
upstate far fom their friends and rela-
| tives in New York city
There was little sleep in the prison
! last night. At Intervals some of the
! prisoners would start to howl, and
bang on their cell floors the din would
Increase as it was taken up down the
line Of cells and continue until the
angry convicts had worn themselves
out. II was scarcely daylight when the
weary night shift of guards was re-
lieved by the keepers who had charge
OF transferring the 60 second term
| men to Auburn When the first con-
/ vets were brougV out to the car,
Sing Sing suddenly awoke. More than
thousand prisoners rushed to their
cell windows and cursed and howell
and yellew threats at the keepers
The task of the prison authorities
was by no means over when they got
the prisoners aboard the car On the
train to which this car was attached
they expected to find friends and rel
atives of the conviCts and threats had
| been made that attempts to release
the second-term men might be looked
Tor anywhere between Ossining and
Auburn. For this reason there were
almost rs many guards on the train
as there were menacled convicts The
town of Ossinine last night and this
morning was fun of men breathing
vengeance against the prison authori-
ties.
REST WILL QUICKLY FOLLOW.
After he has rid the prison Of the
second-term men to be transferred to
Auburn, Warden Clancy expects to have
no more trouble keeping order. The rest
of the second-term Conyicts are to be
sent away tomorrow. To them ana "A
few of their more desperate sympathizers
the warden attributes the mutinlcs that
broke out at Sing Sing this week. the
two fires in the prison shops which caused
more than $4,000 damage and the at
tempt to mureer negro convict whom
the mutneers regarded as a traitor
The attempt to burn the shoe shop yes
terday was frustrated and strike among
the shoe workers was foiled because the
warden had been warned of them In ad-
| vance, Some of the convicts believed that
| this infouation reached Mr. Clancy
| through a negro known in the prison
| as Texas Jack" Yesterday evening as
| the prisoners were filing out of the work
| shop Ave of the convtcts with shoe
| knives In their hands leaped upon the
negro and sashed him so savagely that
| he may die
With the ringleaders of the rebellion
gone from Sing Sing prison to-day nor
NAL conditions returned, The convicts
kept on with their yelling and moaning
through the forenoon but in the afternoon
| the men in the cells seemed to tire and
the din died out entirely. The convicts
| in the shops made no trouble Of any kind
Kurt Schoenherr, the Mneola, l.. l.,
burglar who mysteriously disappeared
last Saturday, was found to-day hiding
in an ll-lnch space between the ceiling
OF the knitting SHOP and the floor Of the