The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-23

 Sing prison here early yesterday morn ing because in some way he obtained a revolver, possibly two> and a plen- ttfu1 supply of cartridges because al- tered regulations had deprived his guards of weapons with which to op- pose him. and, according to District Attorney Frederick B. Weeks of West chester county, because ,"there was gross carelessness brought about by the fact that the officers under recent reforms do not have the authority the law vests in then.'
 Shillitoni failed to get away, fappar- ently, only because Of the co1vardlice of his friends Prison keepers saw an automobile outside the prison walls just before the escape They saw 1t dart away at full speed just as Shil- uton1 emerged from the Hudson river, naked and dripping, and toward 1t. The prison whistle was drowning all other sounds, and apparently those vide him with other clothes and to carry him away from Ossining lost their courage at 1ts sound
 Warden Efrchwey sent a pre1in1- mary report of the escape, the shoot ing of two keepers, and the recapture of Shiliitoni to Superintendent of Pris- ons James M. Carter yesterday after noon An investigation was begun at once, but last night the agency through which Shtilitoni armed him NGCAA IS SzS LI1NrCu A L41y very as IL was yesterday morning, Then it was sug- gested that Shilntonis sister Tessie, had brought the weapon concealed un- der her skirt when she visited her brother Wednesday and had dropped it and kicked it under the screen that separated her from ShiIlitoni.
 Exculpate ShiHftoraf,s Sister.
 But yesterday Miss shiIlitoni hur- ried to the prison again, eager to see her brother and to learn how he had fared. Her manner convinced the prison Authorities that sf,e had not provided the weapon, and it was re- called that there was never a moment when she and Shil1itoni were not within sight of keeper.
 Instead. the supposition was ad- vanced yesterday that ShilIitonf had got his weapon inside the prison. It was recalled that tip from a convict caused Governor Whitman seven or eight months ago to hurry his secre- tary William E. Orr to Sing Sing late one night to make search of the cell blocks for weapons None was found, but it wasN whispered about afterward that weapons would have been found if the garret of the bakery and not the cells had been searched.
 Wherever he obtained it, Shillitoni's use of it may cost the life of Keeper John Mccarthy. The bullet that struck him entered two and half inches below his breast bone and coprsed downward and to the right clipping the end from his appendix in its passage, and lodging in the big muscle at the right hip.
 Dr. A. O. Squire. the prison pnys1- clan; Dr. Robert Irvine, and Dr. Charles c. Sweet operated on Mo Carthy yesterday, removing what was left of his appendix. The man was too weak to permit them to probe for ha lat nd zS1S~. acknowledged that his recovery was doubtful Ernest BuI1ard, the keeper, shot twice through the heshy part of his right upper arm, was said to be in satisfactory condition It was chiefly from Bullard and Charles Nichols, another keeper, with some facts from Mccarthy, that the details of Shillitonis break became known late yesterday.
 Locked Wounded Keeper in Cell.
 The slayer of John Rizzo, a rival gangster, in New York, and of Police men William Heaney and Charles Teare, who sought to arrest him, had - been separated from the 20 other con- den1ned men since his outbreak, a lit tie more than two weeks ago. Then he had wrecked his cell, attacked his keepers, and shrieked and screamed in a manner which led the prison au- thorities to decide he was feigning in sanity as a last resort to escape exc cution, which had been fixed for Fri day of next week.
 ShilIitoni thereafter was moved from the new death house into a cell in the old, death house. Both are in the same building and are separated simply by a wooden door, which has no lock. Early yesterday. ShiIlitoni called Mccarthy and asked him for a pail The keeper opened the cell door and Shillitoni, stepping so close he could touch the keeper, showed his re- volver against McCarthys stomach and pulled the trigger. As Mccarthy fell, Shillitoni dragged him into the ! cell, Sprang out himself and shut the dor on him, locking it with keys which he took from the keepers pocket
 The shot, the uproar, and McCar- thy's cry, had aroused the new death house and warned Keepers BuIlard and Nichols of the attack Bullard pressed the lever which rings the alarm in the office of the prison and then, with Nichols, sprang to the wooden door, slamming it shut and barricading it with their bodies. Ex- cept for the main entrance to the old death house through which visit ors are admitted and which would let ShiIlitoni out into the main yard of the prison, there was no way of escape for him except through the new death house and through the little green door into the death chamber or out NntO bA1C tiny SAOEC1S0 ydTQ WlLn us Fl foot wall.
 Shot BuIlard Through Door.
 Bullard and Nichols knew that Shfl- ntoni would not risk the r2&in en- trance now the general alarm had been given, and they got the wooden door shut just as Shf1Iitoni sprang for it. Instantly he began to shoot through 1t. In all six bullets p1oughed through the wood nd two entered Bullard's arm, while one passed through the trouser leg of Nichols.
 Bu1Iard fell back from the door in pain and. with Nichols, who could not hold the door alone, fled into the ex-