The sun., 1919-09-14

their dead bodies, each with n h,,u..
hole, were fishcd out Of the HudsoS
River. The prison officials decIa.a
that they had shot one another in
dispute in a rowboat as to whether -
proceed across the river in the aw,'',
gale or turn back.
PallIster's body was taken 10 ~.
south gate. Shoemaker took Tow
prisoners from the jobbing shon ava
moved It to the execution chambos
where prison officials and Mrs. Pal,
lister, the slayer's mother, idents..
It. Helms the morning Of the desn
house break" relieved Keepers Hnls.
and Murphy, whom tho murderers hsS
overpowered, disarmed and locked ~
the cells they vacated.
Shoemaker passed out the rif,es a.
posses Of prison employees to ON.
able them to chase Big Bill Green
chronic jail breaker, and three othsr
convicts when they assaulted Keenor
Gormley and jumped into the Hud.
son River trying to escape in 1914
DR.. H. T.. Mereness and Keeper No
Clelland, in a dory, were the first IA
overtake the fugitives. DR.. Merepss,
with rifle kept firing at the swim.
ming convicts until they SURRENDERED
One Successful Getaway.
The oldest getaway Sing Sing eve,
had was that OF George w. Carter
When he had finished a term IN
Blackwell's Island Jail he went bacL
there the next night and robbed War.
den Louis Pillsbury's residence For
this he was sent to Sing Sing. Hs
strangely vanished on June 6, 1899
Believing Carter was slowed away
inside the walls Warden Durston
made Helms and other keepers search
the yard for fifteen consecutive nights
But no trace of him was found. Threa
years later Keeper Thomas Coultrv
discovered a cavern Carter had dug
secretly under the shoe shop boiler
room. In 1t he had stayed until the
warden had called off the search. evi
IDENTIFY, and then got out at night
over the river fence. When the dug.
out was found in 1t was the food
water bottle, tea, tobacco and news
papers Carter had left behind him
Nobody ever has seen him since
The boldest getaway in the prsont
history was that of James Blaine.
Big Ben, the prison siren whlsus
which had just been installed TO give
alarms, roared out just before noon
on May 10, 1897, the news that some
one had escaped from Sing Sing,
1t was Blaine. There was then an
arched passageway under the middle
Of the cell block leading from the
prison enclosure to the railroad tracks
outside. Blaine, falling in behind A
company OF prisoners marching IN
lockstep through the yard, fell out
when he reached the passageway.
With a hammer he smashed open
the paddock that locked the inner stee
gate under the arch and passed
through. Quickly throwing off his
suit of stripes, beneath which he wore
civilian clothes he stole somewhere
he ran to the outer gate. This was
locked from the outside. With the
blade of a large pair of shears, while
keepers and convicts were moving
about near by, he ripped the rear plate
off the lock. Then he shot back the
bolt. In another instant the big gate
swung. open. Blaine closed II behind
him. hurried down the railroad tracks
and made off. Before the alarm
sounded he was riding safely away on
a freight train. Shoemaker, Helms
and others Joined the search for him,
but 1t was all for naught Three
months later Blaine was located ser'
ing another sentence in an Indiana
penitentiary. When he had expiated
his offence there State Detective Jack
son brought him back to his old
haunts and made him. finish the "b!t'
ba bad loft habipd bir,,