The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-18
KEEPER SLAIN, ANOTHER SHOT
 IN JAIL BREAK
Waiting Auto Speeds Fugitives From County Jail In
 New Jersey.

Camden. N. J., July 1s-Wilson Ashbridge, awaiting trial for mur- der. and George Thompson. who was soon to face jury on charge or forgery, escaped from the Camden County Jail last night. after murder ing one keeper and badly wounding second
 Their jail breaking in every circum- stance yas almost parallel with that of Oresto Shillitani at Sing Sing Prls- on New York, a few weeks ago, ex- cept that they at midnight were stlll free, whereas Shillitani was captured soon after he had gained his freedom. Later he was executed.
 Similarity Goes Further
 Ashbridge, just as Shillitani said, employed ruse to induce the flrSt keeper to open his cell door. The flrst keeper was the one killed at Sing Sing and here. In each case the revolver was smuggled into the jail by confed- crates In both escapes the second keeper was wounded, but not mortal ly. The man shot to death here tonight was Isaac J. Hibbs, sixty-five years l old and long in the jail service. Three
  directly through his heart. He died at once. The wounded keeper is Jos- eph Ellis, also sixty-five and a veter- an in his job. He was shot twice, one bullet passing through the fleshy part of his breast from side to side and the other reentering his groin. He will probably recover.
 l Ashbridgea and Thompson (who al- so is known as Francis Murphy were confined in an upper section of, the jail where all untried prisoners are kept. There are two tiers of cells in a large airy room and around the. out side of them is a three-foot corridor where the men are permitted to ex- lercise in the day time. When they Tare ordered back to their cells after the exercise period all the cells are locked at once by means of lever which shoots bar across the top of every door.
 Wanted to "Show Notev
 Just after the prisoners had been locked up, at o'clock, Keeper Hibbs was passing along the corridor to see that everything was all right when Ashbridge called to him genially: Come here, Daddy"
 Hibbs was a kindly soul, whose gentle manner has won him the pa- ternal nickname.
 "Open the door; I want to show you this note,'' the prisoner went on. He was holding in his hand a piece of paper.
 | Unsuspectingly, the old man shot the bolt from an end of the cell tier. Ashbridge stepped out of his cell hold ing a revolver pointed at the keeper and exclaimed:
 Throw up your hands!"
 Thompson as quickly emerged from his cell, a few feet away, ana stood directly back of Ashbridge.
 'fWhy, what does this mean?" asked Htbbs, wonderingly. What
 Some of the other prisoners came to the doors of their cells and looked out One of these was Alfred Will Hams, who later described the ac- tions of the men in the corridor.
 Before the aged jailer could com :, plete his sentence, Williams, said. Thompson. with an oath, grabbed the revolver from Ashbridge's hand and fired three shots into Hibb's body as fast as he could pull the trigger. He was within three feet of the old man
 Met Another Keeper on Way Out.
 As Hibbs fell Ashbridge bent over him and took from his pocket the bunch of keys to the various doors of the jail. Then he took the re. volver from Thompson, opened the door giving egress from the corridor | and both ran out.
 They raced through long hal leading to a door which stands a the head of a flight of stairs to thu street At the end of this corridor : they met Keeper Ellis, who hal kheard the firing and had ran, unarm ed, up from the prison office below t find out what was the trouble.
 up with your hands and get out O the way!" shouted Ashbridge. point
 ing the revolver at the second guard
 Old, as he is, Ellis is sturdy ant
 game, and he went straight for the flu
 gitive, regardless of the weapon. H
 clinched with Ash bridge, but the gril
 lasted only a few seconds, for the run
 away prisoner fired twice at him an
 he fell. .l Ashbridge and Thompson jumpe'
 over his prostrate form and ran dow
 the stairs and into the street. Ther h }t they must have proceeded leisurely
 for no one in the neighborhood, whicl is populous, saw any one running a 'S the time.
 y. Probably Fled in Auto. "a Ellis dragged himself to the tele T. phone and rang up police headquar III ters.
 ts Send some one to the jail, quick! l. was his message. Ashbridge ha l. shot me!'
 Within few minutes many police m men were searching the city for tn s: jailbreakers, but not trace of then is was found. It is believed they ha v- an/ automobile in waiting in a quie Id residential street nearby and spe away.
 s. The police think their escape wa s, carefully planned in every detail, a pr it was arranged for time when pnl
 the two aged keepers would be 0
 duty. They had several visitors ,. W couple of days ago, and it is suppose DO the revolver was smuggled into the1 then. It was not an ordinary pisto - but was .44-calibre weapon of-th type used by officers in the regula army service, and the police hay
 hopes of tracing it through the agenc
 of dealers or pawnbrokers.
 Ashbridge and Thompson took tn IT. weapon with them, but its type wa IS determined from the bullets whic ny were extracted from Ellis. The tw Id f,,oitives because of the fact that the