Evening star., 1915-10-03

TILL IHAnO AuV
In THR STAR
The District jail nifty years ago stood
on the north side Of judiciary Square
at about the present
Escape From location Of the PEN
County Jail sion building: It was
! building, the security Of which was
seriously questioned. Jail escapes were
SO frequent that public apprehension
was continually felt. On tho 25th Of
September. 1865. seven prisoners broke
jail and caused general alarm In this
region In The Star Of September 80.
1866. is the following on the subject:
| This morning Warden Brown has in
| his custody at the jail 205 prisoners,
quite as large a number as there has
been for several months OF those who
escaped Sunday night last. seven in
d, number. four have been recaptured.
namely: J. W. Bryson. by Mr.. T. M.
Robinson. on Monday morning near the
navy yard: George Davis, by Messrs.
Duvall. Fayman and Russ. on the same
day near Georgetown; william Berry.
by the eighth precinct police, near Con-
gressional cemetery yesterday. and
John Hern. by the police. in one Of the
market houses yesterday. Berry stated
that he had walked half way to Balti-
more, but returned. He went to the
house Of some one on the Island and
| obtaining permission remained during
the night. but left in the morning minus
his old clothes. but plus another suit.
He was tracked by the owner Of the
| clothes, who had him arrested, and was
returned to jail with the additional
charge.
! 'It is stated now that the parties
| were engaged in tunneling about six
weeks. having nothing to work with
exc"Dt a tin spoon and two pieces Of
| wood. Some Of the earth was taken
out in slop bucket. but the greater
portion was disposed Of by making 1t
| up into balls and throwing 1t through
| the bars OF the window on q pile of
earth from an excavation in the north
yard, where 1t was not perceived. The
prisoners state that they had one man
at work constantly, even when the
guards. who had received an intimatio
| that something was going on. were
making an inspection OF the cell. But
by Keeping sharp lookout they al
| ways had the flag down and over in
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Asiatic cholera had been raging dur
Ing the summer Of 1865 in the regions
bordering on the eastern
Cn0iefa In Mediterranean. Accord
Er,on. ing to a publication in
Ga
20. 1855. the disease was working west
ward:
dispatches received from the United
States consul at Rr'pdis'. Ita,v da+ea
August 30 say that the Asiatic cholera
made Its appearance on the Adriatic
coast of the italian peninsula and at
the time of the writing seemed to be
spreading in all direc+ions. Ancona
was the first place to feel the fatal ef-
fects of this terrible sconrge and the
anatha fo- long time averaged about
100 per day, but II has not seemed 10
have spent its force there. onlv some
twenty new cases hefne reported
daily II newt brntA out IN Sem Severe.
a Mace Of some ~ a"n inha h'tants The
an-+hs averaged about sixty per day
and the disease ia stfn -a~'-- <n"--
frIlv the-e few caees ~ the chol-
eva have been at Eo~efa. and anne also
tn every place between Brfndisi and
P,~i
saer,s new m he snre"Hiug R-ad-
rn1Iv in all Sf-ar+sn-s 0~A~ Tu~one and
that ~ ie r,,t-n 1'Le1v 20 F-d ita wav fo
thA rT,iteS S+ntns hrit the aUfUrna1
weeta-n tr'nds NAV Sef"v or ,->de via
,,,-ch ac~oss tNe Af,nr"'~" f~he t~tA
', tive 80 ohntn-a arH *6d vranrer Of
tie 'eo-----,,o,r~t tson Nv drinking water
WOO ,,nt thAn t~o~s-n,
-.'r.n r>~ites cs~+As consr,1 ~ ron-
~+ of;,- n..le u,-sAI,-- IN the dara rtv~, ant
,,,da- T.+e ~ Ari~,st 20 -ene-ts thnt
+ha raro ~ cho'a~a In thof MO re
h-ra almost erfs~n1u ransAd ~ the
~tea ST. iro-ea cfn~ decline continues "
SC co- e1cn+lv heI;e-e1 +hat the r3tv
-:i,l hn fraad f-o... tho cnnur~a w'thfn
.Ar anvs II 10 arti,,,o tod nv f,h,-esn'"ns
ND otLn-e thnt the r"-"hA- nf victims
~, ron~ta r+innrin ard virin,tv will be
found to be not less than $4,000"
Nn+withstan1iro the i11-suecess at
tending the iail h-nak of SUNDAY nieht
the iail nrisoners we've
More Ao@;--;+v still husv a1nne the
same line. according to
dt We the following para
toee.
~, III, cAeo-ts 1a'1~ to ascane. Within
tu,o davs Nva~dan R-ouu hae discove--
cd several att"r,rts TO h~eak n"t The
r~ieore-s wn-k on the walls datlv. die-
-;r, in wa -inus ~ts at the time
vo~+~-dar- a Ia->-n holo 1'~novoro6
=, east v-au of the n~isnn and
si ono in the wnet end. Svha~e the
n~i~ore~s had ~",,ovod a number o.
h-icks md rcn'acad fhar, loosely. COW
n~irp the Joints with whitnwash. 80
that a carelass observer would rot de-
tect it a la~pn butcher knife. convart-
cd into saw. was discovered in a
s'ocri-e hrre I'm in one of the Anes
Warden Rroup ia determined 10 secure.
il possihle. all BURGLARS and thieves now
in his custody. and In order to do SO
has made a rule which prohibits any
one from visiting them or sending
thines to them. The number of des-
perate characters in CUSTODY is unrisu-
ally large. and to prevent their efforts
to escape REQUIRES a constant exercise
of vigilance by the guards. as we'll as
the strict enforcement of the rules"
In The Star Of October 2. 1855, is an
account of the arrest at Lynchburg Of
Brevet Brig. Gen.
Ge,1a aro1 Arraefad os eph Briscoe,