The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-26
PRISON REVOLT KEPT
UP AS LEADERS GO
Chief Mutineers, in Chains.
Are Taken to
Auburn.
STILL LOCKED IN CELLS
Ossining Fears Danger of Gen.
eral Delivery Is Not
Averted.
LOCKED IN CELLS

ObNINlNt July Sos-CiAty 'ouN'N'S wNi'
sent from Sing Sing prison to-day to
Auburn prison amid the greatest uproar
In the history Of the big Jail on the Hud-
SON II was the new wardens body blow
at an insurrection that isn't over by any
means.
Last night was the worst Ossining ever
knew. The I. 400 men In the cell block In
the prison shrieked. sang. howled and
cursed all night long and could he heard
for miles In the village the naval militia
men stood around with loaded pistols In
their pockets. In the houses people lay
to the racket and wondering IL
II would stop long enough to let them fall
asleep. II didn't.
Soon after sunrise ninety guards. the
biggest array the prison has mustered In
a long time. gathered In the yard to pick
the men who were TO 90 to Auburn. Five
guards went UP 20 each cell and hauled
out a s|eepless. noise crazed felon. As
fast as two men were pulled out they
were shackled. ankle to ankle. wrist to
wrist. The pairs were driven to the yard
and lined up against wall
Like . MenaGerie.
Their comrades indoors made more
noise than ever Bed legs went crashing
against the cell doors. the yelling sounded
like howls from menagerie. In the yard
under heavy guard the drafted men cursed
their keepers. cursed the warden. and
above all the prison itself. Hash. buns
and coffee were brought out to them.
The task of getting the sixty men ready
Ill S.,.
hours.
II was . o'clock before the procession
was ready TO move. The hundreds OF
men ordinarily at work were still In their
cells yelling like Indians and demanding
a breakfast long overdue. But Warden
Clancy was taking no chances. Indoors
they stayed until II O'Clock.
When the shackled sixty were all ready
for the trip a dozen guards mixed UP
among them. two dozen more guards sur
rounded them. and a start was made for
the railroad tracks. The chain gang was
around to the south end Of the
Jail and out OF a gate looking east ''Old
=. k."-Principal Keeper Jim Con-
staiked in front and the out
lying guards waved long and business
az hest they could. tripping each other
and laughing a little In spite Of their hit.
terness OF spirit.
Town Folk Driven Back.
out the lower gate they came. From
Ave hundred to a tn ,usand townspeople
We're on the hill overlooking the prison.
The guards drove them back. The draft
moved slowly past the man Office.
Don't let him take our picture"
yelled big negro shackled to a white
mar. The man behind pretended to have
stumbled, stopped and picked up a stone
AS big az his fis,.
NO. no. Don't throw. They're our
friends. :" shouted "A wildeyed forger a lit
tie back. Say. you guys. give us a
writeup for Gods sake. The men In that
hell are starving
The stone wasn't thrown--just then.
Although Warden Clancy had ordered his
men not TO keep the newspaper men be-
y ond their lines two guards smashed a
camera and manhandled the reporter who
carried IL. The convicts didn't like this.
There was more stumbling in the line
OF march and when the chain gang got to
its feet again a shower OF stones went
sailing AZ the guards ahead. The guards
ducked for their lives A couple were
struck, but only slightly hurt
Curse Prison as They GO.
"Good-by. Sing Sing. rotten thing
thing" chanted the men in chains as they
s,umpcd along the path outside the cell
block
4 hiC indnnre ha
salute Of the men left behind There was a
furry OF caps and wavine arms from the
ranks on the hill outside
by, fellows." called the marching
men. Take 1t out on somebody and any
body for u.s."
Wen fix EN-" came the cry from the
cell block. Did they feed you" They
didn't us"
Hundreds OF women and children were
running down the steep hillside and even
scaling the iron fence above the New
York Central track The procession
rolled slowly down gravel path to a
little platform beside the rails.
Plead for COWrRdrs.
They were twen,y minutes ahead OF
train time. They stood in n wretched hud- |
die. pleading with the folks who peered
down from above to do something tyr |
those poor guys back there"
'Say. you folks" cntreated the fOrEer !
who looked near collapse. "Thcy wouldn't
let our folks know We were being sent
lp to Auburn. Amt that u - shamec"
The big negro laughed until he shook |
Then he plucked chunks OF rock from the
hillside and hurled them at people across
he tracks. The guards didn't stop him.
ON the blum all the police Of Ossining
we're busy helping the prison guards to |
<eep the crowd from railing down on the !
'elons' heads Then came n long shrek
u IA locomotive and the 9.43 shot out Of
he tunnel near the prison entrance and Z
slowed till her last ear stopped abreast
he men In chains Six guards headed by ,
state Detective jackson showed the
'hained men into the car and then got |
aboard themselves with suitcases and big !
Doxes to bring back tho leg irons and |
The convicts made one last |
title fettered stand. but were swept on the
rain with ease. They had moments
revenge breaking half dozen windows
Ssh Ssh! went the bellcord. There
VAS a last despairins chorus from the
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