The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-26
JAIL DELIVERY
PLOT FRUSTRATED.
Weapons Of AL Sorts, Hidden
n Cells, Taken from
Convicts.
RING LEADERS MOVED
Sixty Taken from Sing Sing 10 Auburn
While BedIan Reisns in Prison
Villagers Go Armed.

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ossining, n. Y. July s5.-A cunningiy
conceived plot for a wholesale jail de-
livery at Sing Sing this morning was
frustrated in highly dramatic manner
oy Warden Galley.
Nearly four hundred men had prepared
to overpower the guards In the mess
rooms at breakfast, while the majority
OF the keepers were busy manacling the
sixty men who were transferred to Au-
burn today. The warden learned OF this
new conspiracy while it was still brew
ing. Instantly he ordered the guards on
duty to assemble.
search every CELL" he said. IF there
is anything like a weapon take it away
by force If necessary"
By midnight enough weapons had been
found to fill three or four bushel baskets
There were daggers. dirks; and saw-like
knives fashioned from knives stolen from
the shoe shop. There were stockings
stuffed with crushed stone, billies fash
toned from bed posts, and even rims had
been torn from the cover of the pals
and the tin made into peculiar disc-like
weapon.
Villagers Go Armed.
Without weapons the prisoners were as
powerless as children. And today broken
in spirit, apparently completely mastered,
they acted like tired boys. Hoarse from
the all-night yelling, and weary from
their three days mutiny, there was barely
a sound from them tonight.
Many Of the villagers still slept, how
ever. with guns under their pillows or
beside their beds, in fear of another up
rising.
Bedlam was loose. However, this morn
ing when the go convicts. many of whom
had been ring leaders in the strikes.
were transferred from the prison to the
car which took them to Auburn.
Manacled in pairs. their legs chained
by ankle irons, the sixty marched out
shortly after o'clock in a wild chorus
of howls, jeers, and cheers from the
other convicts crowding against their
own bars in the cell house, past which
they had to be taken to the railroad
platform.
The transferred men were for the most
part, suIien, IeerIng, ana mIscnaeI Dent
a score of photographers. moving pic
ture men, fronted them at the prison
gate with battery Of cameras.
1t was like the waving of a red flag.
Stone Camera Men.
what are you going to plaster our
faces all over the country for?" shouted
one. There was an angry snarl of pro-
test from the rest.
The convicts strained at their chains.
They stopped in pairs and picked up
stones from the road and threw them at
the photographers. All the missiles few
wild, but the unlocking villagers fed
panic-stricken.
forty guards rushed at the photogra-
pliers with their clubs and slashed right
and left.
Warden Clancy sent out an order to
let the photographers alone. and said
that he would investigate every man who
had interfered with them.
Then, without warning, the prisoners
turned on <he guards and stoned them
instead. Three or four were hit. But
they fiourished their arms and soon re-
stored order.
lust as the Empire express approached.
several convicts stepped close to a deputy
that they particularly disliked. The big
engine, at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
tore past them. Just as the tender wheels
flashed past, two convicts lunged against
a deputy. He caught himself just in
time to escape being ground under the
wheels.
As the train pulled out, some who still
had rocks concealed crashed them
through Ine Train WlHOOWS- SOIhc III
wild frenzy pushed through the panes
with their elbows. When the prison
train reached Albany and was forced to
wait there some ten minutes the con-
victs made the best of their time appeal
ing for sympathy.
I'VE struck because our food was rot
ten," they wrote on notes they scattered
out to women gathered at the station.
Several petitioned Gov. Sulzer for bet
ter food.
Yet before the convicts left Sing Sing
they had told Warden Clancy that the
food had been greatly improved during
the past two weeks.
Shortly after the convicts left Syracuse
serious trouble broke out in the prison
car. Exact details of what took place
are not forthcoming from the prison
Trainmen, however, said
that two men tried to overpower a guard,
and that the guard turned and fired,
wounding one of the men. No
confirmation of this could be obtained.