The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-12
WINDOW OF PANTRY
HIS ROAD LIBERTY.
Interned British Officer Used
Stratagem to Eldde' Dan
ish Guards.
POSED AS SHIP POTTER
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LONDON, Nov. 2S.-A remarkable story
Of the escape from Denmark 10 England
Of Lieut. Commander E. Layton. VI the
British Navy IL told by a Liverpool 0 r
RESPONDENT. Lieut. Commander Layton
WINS In command OF the submarine Ella.
which was. bombarded In Danish waters
by the Germans.
The Fla was sieiied and destroyed
when lying helpless where b
stranded OF the Danish coast. Ihe
members Of the British crew were IN
termed at Copenhagen on parole, bun tne
Commander refused 70 promise NOT 70
attempt to escape, and was kept moo
close surveillance ut h naval bar
racks.
Despite the utmost vigilance ana a
double guard. however, he 70
escape by An ingenious ISan. one
night when all was quiet he LETT M
bed. putting In his place beneath the
sheets a jimmy, and got through the
pantry window. The ave barracks
wore situnsed on an Island Off the
coast, 70 in order to- get to III main.
land VI Copenhagen he had o Jump
into the water and swim for II. From
Copenhagen no made his way to Bergen
aud thence I o Newcastie-on-Tyne.
Two other officers also made an AZ
tempt to escape the Same evening. ous
they we're recaptured before they could
get outside the dockyard boundary.
Eight DAYS previously Lieut. Commander
Iay,on had lntimated that X was pos
stble he would attempt an escape from
the dockyard should an opportunity
occur, and after this h a~ur1sorities
kant on the alert.
At 1 A. NJ. II was discovered That the
three prisoners had escaped. The two
other officers were rccaptured near une
dockyard boundary. whore they had en-.
deayored TO hide. An officer then went
TO the Commanders room 20 ark TOR an
exclamation, but that officer had al.
ready vanished, snd In his bed lay q doll
made up OF a large sponge some
cushions.
The Journal adds that Il was supposed
Lieut.. commander Layton swan out 10
a motor boat which was In waiting and
conveyed him TO Malmo or some other
place on tho coast Of Skane.
An account given by h Times says
that Lieut.. -CoSimander Layton. In 81.
cap.ng from the naval barracks. lowered
himself from a window by a rope. He
had previously obtained q thick serge
suit and changed Into It. He swan In
his clothes, . task rendered moro DIM
cult by the fact that he had not com'
pletely recovered from an attack Of IN
iuenza-
ON a ferryboa. be turned himself into
a porter and managed I o get the Job OF
carrying a passengers heavy bag 70
the station. There he boarded q train
and in due course reached the dock eide
where he caught a train TO ChristiaS!a,
on the boat from Bergen 70 England
q passenger asked him II II was true
that he was an American. He replied
that Il was. whereupon his fellow travel
Ter remarked: IF you were o so
darned sure about Il I should say you
were a British naval ofieer." When the
travel stained young Englishman. with.
out money, presented himself before a
transport officer at the British port he
was not unnaturally looked upon with
SUSPICION, but he vas o o able TO es-
tablish his Identity.