The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-09-02
OFFICERS LO9
ALL TRACE D.
CONVICT
With Prison Force Practical!
His Heels, Chung Duck S
Eluded His Pursuers in D,
ness, Who Gave UP the CI
Because of Disagreeable i
and Mud.
(From Monday Advertlser)

(From Monday Adyertiser)
sam M Io,go aud doe,;nr ,ho oH
-, W"
Vi tcrrltoriai ana munlcipai PI
Onuhs Duck ooon' the horean col
VINO escaped Saturday night from
Oahu Prison, is the object of sc
of the entire nol;c. forco
'ouiisues' MS Part"e1
crime and his soulmatc,' as
ponce iacetiously refer to HIM, is
ed IN solitary confinement and OF
10 the fact that Rodrigues was uit
cessiui IN ms effort to escape at
same tiihe, the horean has becomek
.nahPioh eseaper from the pr
rms is the Iourth or NTH time
ne mas made good his escape and
getaway saturday night was no
.emarkaDle than his previous mel
Die ieats.
hlgh oherln Henry, warden OF
prison, yesterday characterized the
'st Jalloreak as one OF the worst
mas occurred during the last +
years in the prison. One guard
almost Killed and several hurt in
Scuihe necessary to subdue the L
hieah.
walked out Front Door.
Having previously climbed outl
windows and broken out through
floors, the two convicts this time ct
ly cut their way through the fl
doors of their cells. walked down
main corridor of the prison, and !
of the front door. The mere audal
of the attempt won freedom for Clt
Duck Soon and almost won it for n
rigues.
In some mysterious way the two
secured possession of one or two nj
saws. Their escape was planned u
the lnhnite care that they formI
exercised, Tor In nearly all instaT
the two men have made their attenl
at escape together.
| Ihe cutting OF the bars of their
door was not accomplished in one nj
out appears to have been the work
many patient hours.
Ihey had peen assigned to cells
the waikiki wing of the prison wi
cement hoors made 1t impossible
them to repeat their former exploit
breaking a h0ie through 1T with u
paiis and chains. The doors of u
Cells are Simply heaVy IRON frat
consisting OF -FOUR or hVe stout vert
oars and several heaVy laterals.
was impossible to squeeze between
Dars ana even after one OF them
been removed the space secured Sc
ed too small for an infant to |
through.
+ osed saw to Cut Bars.
| However, after securing possess
of the saws, or saw, they set to W
to cut out portion of one of
yerticals below the lowest lateral
little was done at time each nj,
when the passing of o. r. g. l.. trf
outside caused so much noise that
guards were not likely to hear
noise.
The prison serves grease to tho Z
victs to soften their shoes with,
after each cutting operation was o
they scraped this grease from Il
shoes and filed in the incision; /
turning their lamps up until {
smoked and securing enough lamp.b
to color the grease. Thus the |
could have remained practically Sc,
ed for weeks presenting a whole
pearance except on minute exami
ton. The remains of the grease
lamp. black could be seen still adher
to the door sections which were
moved.
The two men were never sent out
gangs but during the day were
mitted to walk back and forth in
courtyard. They could have I
passed the saw back and forth betw
them, in case they had only one.
After removing the bars the n
thing that had to be done was to .
through the heavy chains that boz
eight pound iron balls to their ank
This was easy for the two men.
severed balls were found in their CO
They timed their escape nicely.
one moment of the night when tn
was bare possibility of there be
no guard in the upper corridor fl
whence he could overlook their ent
aisle was at ten o clock when
watch was changed So it was
as ten o clock was struck through
the prison that the two men br
out the bars aud crawled through