The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-22
HRIPPER', DOING LIFE SENTENCE,
 FLEES PRISON
Emil Totterman, Slayer of
 Woman, Escapes From Honor Camp.

man. . life term prisoner at Sing Sing. . 'rippsr" whoss killing of a woman in this city in 1908 was one of the meuk k,asrocious acts of the sort New York had svsr known, has es- caped.
 He got away Sunday afternoon apparently just walked away, without my hindrance-from the "honor camp" for prisoners at Beekman, N. Y. He had bsens workings there with eight otheer msn, in charge of . slugle guard. for,several months.
 Reluctant to believe that Totterman had actually had gone, the officials at Hing Sing until early yesterday morn inx held to thes belief that the mur dsrsr was 'gcGt In the woods" near Roskxnan and thut he would surely re- tuEn- Thersfore no alarm was sent out for him. It was. not until the day was wall aosanced that Warden Os- borne notiAsd the police. Then no txace of him .oould bs found.
 ToesermAn rot pefmission from his 9uard Sunday to 70 blackberrying in tho woods near the convict farm. It is snid that he had made the ac- Qua3utnnns. of . ,soldier,at Camp Whit man at Des1man. Tho soldier started on . @ hour leav~ of absence about the tizne Tukteuman vanished. Member of vpeafaEe League. ] The '1iear~ waa member of the Mutual Weltaxe League of Sing Sing, and as such vas sranted the privilise .ef workins atsths 'eaonor camp" un- der merely nominal guard. But TruY.- Iau u< ing to explain that 1t wasn't he who permitted the man. guilty of a partic- ulariy hsluouas crime. to go about practically free.
 '.ThiBaunfortunate escape" said the wardan. 'swas by one of a group of men selected lastS spring. during my anssune, fer farmA Awork at Beekman- lOf ccurss. I could have Decalled him laftsr my rstufn to duty, but did not II am free to say that I should not have approvsd this particular selse- tion-~
 rottsrman wast selected for the sshonor eroup"s duzing the period that Dean Kirchwey oc Columbia Untver- aity waa acting a warden.
 Tottermau h . eWede. ovsr six feet, with . powerful fFNkae. blue eyes and gray hair. Heswaasa sailor.
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 In Decembsr. 1eoa.STotterman kill led Sarah Martin. otherwise known as '-Cob pock eallie. 1" h aihotei at James elip and water street He mutilated her body tsylib1y with knife. In iEebruary, 1906 he was convicted of fmurdsr and senkanced to be electro cuted two months later.
 4 record of heroisrn saved his life. ;In the batt1a cf'eanfisso he was in the United GtnteA uaVy and ddd gallant iveRk abuaxd the Iowa in her fight with the Christobal Colon He went ;ashore and helped capture Spaniards IWho asd whan the Colon was beachsd. Tt vas said he caught % single hand lea During his oaeear tat seq, which lhegan when he wAs Il years old. he ,saved nuunsFous lives.
 On account of this record Governor iHigxins oommutad his sentence. Whrdan OIhcgna said last night: IsT an ooing my beSt to bring about ja moro buaineas-ika administration iof prisoners hy omcarA The officer lof the road gang from which a pris- omtr epcaped three weeks ago hsa jbSan suapended for . month without lpsv. The one from whom two sol Iaway the week before last has alsc been tutpended and charges have been brpught against htm-'