The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-25
CONNECTS FROM
 SING SING TO
 AUBURN PRISON so Criminal Mut- ineerS ShaCkIed and
 Chained In Train
Another Big Batch of Second Term Rioters To Be Shipped
 To Same Place Tomorrow


 victs, the dregs of the New York city criminal class, were taken from their cells in Sing Sing prison today and placed aboard a train for the state prison at Auburn. Recent riots in Sing Sing decided the warden to take no chances Each convict was heavily handcuffed and shackled and then chained to his place in the railroad car, which had been brought inside the prison enclosure. A hundred pri6Un guards did this work while in the state armory not far away a, company of the naval militia, waited for call to protect the town in case the trans fer Of the convicts resulted in pris-. on mutiny.
 The crisis to which the events of the past few days have been leading was expected at Sing Sing because the second term men, who gre being trans ferred to Auburn, had led the recent mutinies. They were enraged because so many of them were to be sent up- state far from their friends and rela- lives 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 doors and the d1n would be taken up along the line of cells and continue until the convictS wore themselves out It was scarcely daylight when the weary night shift of guards was relieved by the keepers who had charge of transferring the six ty second term men to Auburn. When the first convicts were brought out toI the car Sing Sing suddenly awoke. More than a. thousand prisoners rush ed to their cell windows. cursing and shouting 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 Rv-ie -oJo lives of the convfcts, and the word had been given that attempts to re- lease these second term men might be looked for anywhere between Os- sining and Auburn. For this reason there were almost as many guards on the train as there were manacled con victs A second detachment of second terxners, as large as the first, will be shipped to Auburn tomorrow With the completion of these transfers War den Clancy expects to have no more trouble keeping order. To these con victs and g few of their more desper- ats sympathizers the warden attributes the mutinies, the two fires in the priS- on shops which caused more than $15o.oOo damage and tine attempt to murder a negro convict whom the nutineers regarded as a trairQr.
 The attempt to burn the shoe shop yesterday was frustrated and a strike among the shoe workers was foi1ed because the warden had been warned Of them in advance. Some of the con victs believed that this information reached MT. Clancy through a negro known in the prison as Texas Jack Yesterday evening as the shoe work CTS were filing out Of the workship five of the convicts with shoe knives in their hands Ieaped upon the negro and slashed him so savageIy that he may die
 The town of. Ossining last night and this morning was full of men breath ing vengeance against the prison au- thor1ties.
 Warden Clancy surprised his nnu- tinous charges today by leaving behind some of the second term men previ- ousIy chosen to go to Auburn in the first detachment and filling their places with twenty-six first term pris- oners who had taken part in yester- days disorders.
 All the convicts were kept locked in their cells until after the train for Auburn had left, Dut even after the train had pulled out the uproar in the cells continued. The convfcts had a plan by which certain groups would relieve each other at intervals, so that the din was continuous. Most, of the time men kept up a steady monoton- ous chant:
 Row, row, row, way up the river.''
 At times the chant would change and the prisoners would cheer fcr for mer Warden Kennedy:
 Kennedy, Kennedy, we want Ken nedy-"
 The convicts taken to the train att eral photographers tried to get pie lures Then a number Of the men picked up stones and hurled them at the cameras and the photographers made a hasty retreat As the train pulled out the men started to sing: