Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-12-11
DARING ESCAPE
John Mack Escapes from County Jail
Tuesday Evening-Under Sentence
of From One to Twenty Years-In-
timidates Fellow Prisoners Con
federates on Outside.

John Mack under sentence OF from
one to twenty years in the Ohio Peni-
tentiary for blowing safe at Bradley
store last October succeeded in break
ing from Fulton county Jail last Tues
day evening and making successful
escape; up to time of going to press
no trace of the escaped prisoner had
been secured
John Mack received his sentence of
from one to twenty years in the Ohio
Penitentiary last Saturday, when
Judge Bailey overruled motion for a
new trial and passed the foregoing
sentence. Tuesday afternoon four
white women and one colored woman
came to the Jail to visit prisoners
Sheriff McQuillin who was in his office
saw them coming went Immediately
to the Jail and required the visitors
to lay aside all wraps and hand par
cells also required Mrs. McQuillin to
search all the women before they were
admitted to the room in which the
prisoners were confined. This has
been the invariable rule of Sheriff Nc
Quillin all persons who come to see
the prisoners have been searched for
concealed weapons or implements
that might be used by prisoners to
effect an escape before they were per-.
mitted to enter the corridor surround'
ing the cell cage. At about fifteen
minutes before five the visitors rap
ped on the door to signify their de-
sire to leave and turnkey Andrews
opened the door to let them out just
as the door was opened Mack rushed
into the group at the door pushing the
women aside and presenting gun in
the face of the turnkey knocked him
over and rushed from the Jail.
Sheriff McQuillin and deputy Boone
gave chase Immediately and succeed
ed in tracking Mack as far as the
corner Of East Leggett street and
Shoop avenue where all trace Of him
was lost. Deputies searched the
country all night Tuesday night and
all towns and cities in every direction
from Wauseon were notified of the es-
cape by wire, but thus far no trace
of Mack has been found.
The women were detained at the
jail and questioned by Judge Barber
Prosecutor Templeton and by F. S.
Ham who had assisted in the prosecu-
ton; they gave their names as Gillett
Heath, O'Brien, and O'Connor; the Of
ficers above mentioned satisfied them
selves that none of the women were
implicated in the esacpe Of Mack
and having no legal hold on them per-
mitted them to leave.
On investigation its was found that
three inch and half steel bars had
been cut out of the cage in the south
east corner where the toilet and a
shower bath are located making an
opening ten inches high and fifteen
inches long near the floor through
this opening Mack had crawled thus
making his rush when the door was
opened to permit the women visitors
to go out. Where and how Mack OBJ
tanned the gun which he had when
he made his escape and the saws with
which he cut out the sections of steel
bar remained mystery until We'd
nesday morning when Sheriff McQuil-
| lin succeeded in eliciting the informa-
tion from the prisoners who are in
the jail.
A week ago last Sunday, Nov. 29tE
two men were discovered at the south
side of the Jail they disappeared
about as soon as they were discovered
the Sheriff's suspicion were aroused
and he Immediately made thorough
search of all the prisoners and all the
cells but failed to find anything in the
shape of tools or weapons. Wednes
4 day morning prisoners told the Sheriff
that Mack had stuck broom handle
from the cage across the south cor
ridor and through the bars of one o.
the windows on the south side of thu
Jail which was open for ventilation
Macks confederates had fastened th'
gun and the saws on the end of tn,
broom handle and Mack had securet
them by the simple process of pull
ing in the broom handle.
4 Mack had threatened to kill an,
prisoner who should give any infor
nation concerning his acquisition
and evidently had the whole bunch in
timidated. The gun had been hiddel
on top of the Combination box whicl
is located at the North side of tn
cage and is so high up that it woul,
: be impossible to see anything on tn
top of it without climbing up o.
something for that purpose. Thi
combination box is fastened to tn
bars of the cage and is wholly on tn
outside of the cage. Every night
guard has been on duty in the jai
. watching the prisoners and Mack ha
utilized the day time when there wer
no guard or anyone except his fel
low prisoners about to saw the bars
he had threatened to kill anyone q
them who should "squeal on him" an
7 they all seem to have been very muc
. afraid of him. Mack finished his "ge
away without doubt in an automobil
which was in waiting for him and
i is very doubtful if he is ever az
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