Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-02

Chief of Police Thomas D. Brown and John Pierce, an officer from the state prison, resumed the hunt for Skeete Allen of Westerly. the escaped state prisoner. Tuesday, after futile Monday. In addition to the exchange Of the shotgun. that Allen took with him from the prison. for a revolver. and exchange of a suit of clothes be- longing to Howard Babccck, at the Babcock cottage, Pleasant View, he ate al i nearly % a 'w whole S pie. That Alien made himself perfectly at home ta evidenced in his change of clothing, his eating and drinking and in addition taking a shave using MT. BaDcocK's razor. brush and cup; The officers walked along tho beach. using the gun as a staff, walked along by the cot tage, and about twenty feet beyond turned towards the cottage, entering by the window route and making exit by the same. his tracks being lost in the sand. Allen is familiar with this section and it's environment, and no iIi-
 dividual is better qualified to elude his pursuers. He is now well armed with revolver and supply of am- munition and Is in condition to resist capture if cornered. The gun he took from the state institution was loaded
 and was in shape for action when found at the Babcock cottage.
 When Allen visited the residence of Lafayette Main, in North StoninEton,
 last Friday, MT. Main was not at home
 and Allen, with gun in hand, cleared
 the house of it's occupants. He ate and
 drank, made an unsuccessful search
 for money and finally departed, taking
 with him some old coins. He evident IY- f,~aN- 1.a1 ;T1 "a nirnYVifNI1G from
 North Stonington to Pleasant View.
 as the Babcoclz cottage was entered
 Saturday night.
 While the officers were scouting for
 Allen along the shore cottages at Quonochontaug, two farm hands in
 the employ of Tristan D. Babcock,
 Stewart and Glasson, acting as care-
 takers of the Dr. Williams place, mo-
 ticed that the house had been forcibly
 entered. Stewart went into the house and investigated. He found Skeete
 asleep in one of the rooms and locked the door. Stewart then summoned Glasson, who responded and carried a shotgun. Just as they reappeared, Skeete jumped from a window and ran, the two men following. but they were soon outdistanced. The shotgun
 was discharged twice, but not at Skeete, believing that he would stop
 and surrender. He did not scare, but kept on at antelope speed. stopping oc-
 
 his pursuers, but did not fire.
 The watchman on duty at the Watch Hill coast guard station, with the aid of a field glass, saw Allen running
 down the beach and dodge into some brush along the shore. Close watch 1 was kept, but Allen did not reappear. As soon as Allen was discovered in l the Dr. Williams summer home, Po- l liceman Frederick T. Mitchell. on duty l in the square, was notified by tele- k7 | to the Williams cottage in an autonao- ! bile but Allen had fled. Chief Brown and State Prison Officer Pierce were | notified and Tuesday evening. an effort i was being made to surround and cap- | ture Allen.
 |. The searching party soon arrived at 1 the place where '.Skeete" was seen to enter the thicket, but the elusive chap had escaped, his footprints indicating ] that he had doubled and started back
 towards the Watch Hill road. The tracks soon became undiscernable. ] darkness came on and the hunt was abandoned. Chief Brown planned to summon a posse and renew the hunt early Wednesday morning, when the
 whole section will be deployed In the hope of securing Allen and returning him to the state prison to serve the uneXpired two years of his term, and | then some more.
 John R. Wilcox sheriff for Wsshinu l ton county. continued on his third days search for James Morris. sus- 1 pected of being the murderer of the | Olsen brothers and William Rhodes, l in the sheriff's home town of Kingston | Sunday morning. Morris joined the section gang, of which the Olsens were q part. and lived with the Olsens in l the house where the murder was com mitted and has since disappeared. It
 was said he belonged in Bristol. but no man of that name. or description, was known there, so far as the sheriff could learn. It has been learned that
 tho man seen coming from the house
 of death at o'clock Sunday morning
 was q milkman who did not enter the
 house
 Sheriff Wilcox is satisfied that the nnprders were committed early Sun