Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-09-23
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at Night By
Pounding
(From Fridays Daily.)


the county jail to make an escape by
breaking through the wall at the Sc
cond story A large number of bricks
were removed from the inside and
enough were knocked from the outer
wall to the ground below to permit q
small person to crawl through. 1t was
narrow escape from a wholesale de-
livery. During the night Sheriff Henry
L. Hale was awakened and made
the discovery. He nipped the af-
fair just at the proper moment.
This morning the prisoners at the
Jail were brought before Judge James
O'Neill who is holding court here and
the guilty one was decided upon. The five
brought into court and with the crimes
with which they are charged are as
follows:
Clarence ST. Claire burglary.
Fremont Newell, assault.
Cornelius Finnegan, drunkness.
Henry Martin, county desertion.
Marion butcher, desertion.
st. Claire was summoned before the
Judge and said that he took no part in
removing the bricks.
Cornelius Finnegan of Baraboo was
first called before the judge. He said
that he had been awakened by noise
and when he went to the place where
he heard the pounding he found st
Claire there. He said he saw broken
flat iron and few other iron articles.
Afterwards Martin came but Finnegan
declared he had nothing to do with
breaking through the wall.
Henry Martin Before the Bar
Henry Martin, the supposed count
from Ableman, was next asked to ap
prOach the bar He also said he heard
a noise and when he went to the wall
found St. Claire there. He was pound
ing the wall. He said the pounding
continued for about an hour and that he
had nothing to do with removing the
bricks.
Then came the turn of William Hen
gen. He said he had no concern in the
affair although he heard the noises for
about an hour. He said in conversation
afterward that ST. Claire said he did
some of the pounding. The only others
he saw there were Finnegan and ST.
Claire.
The Sheriff Hears a Noise
The sheriff told the court that he
heard noise about 2 o'clock and in
vestigated. He said that there was
no arrangement at the jail to notify
the sheriff if anything was wanted, ex-
cept to pound on the pipes. He said
that something told him that on this
occasion he was not wanted. He slip
ped into his clothes and hurried to the
southwest corner of the Jail, on the
outside, where he plainly heard the
pounding. Quite soon someone struck
match above and the bricks began to
rain at his feet. He rushed into the
jail, turned on the lights, for he thought
they would stop the noise and told cen
trail to notify Deputy Sheriff w. H.
Hatch. He then stationed himself on
the outside and quietness prevailed.
A ster Mr.. Hatch came an investigation
was made on the inside and all the
prisoners were found to be in bed. He
said that as near as he could find out
that St. Claire did the removing of the
bricks. He did not know about the
others.
St. Claire Gets New Sentence
The court then ordered Clerk of
Court Clark to cancel the sentence of
st. Claire to three years at Green Bay,
which had been pronounced Thursday.
The Judge told the prisoner that he had
advised him less than twenty-four
hours before to be good citizen, that
society was not against him, that the
court, sheriff and prosecuting attorney
were willing to help him. In the
face of all this the court said he
was satisfied that he tried to
break jail for which he was
sorry. The judge told him that his sem
tence of three years at Green Bay ives
cancelled and that the sentence was
three years at Waupun with one day of
each year in solitary confinement.
Month Less for Newell
The court then reduced the sentence
of Fremont Newell one month on oc-
count of the information that he had