Arizona republican., 1921-01-11

he was wanted by the police and might have been arrested on his way. This man did not make any attempt to use either the letter or the ticket to escape. The adventure was over Tor hlm
 Such an instance occurred when Dr. Budding was on q western tflp some time ago. man read in the news paper of the work of this Dr. Budding, who had been a prisoner himself, and came 10 see him. The man eNplalhea that 15 years before he had, m ilr of anger, killed a girl who refused to marry him. He was given life i'm prisonment, but served only Jew months when friends, who were m dignant at what they felt was an un- just sentence, helped him to escape. He went west and built up a business and i a name for himself But the shadow of fear was always worrying him. After consulting Dr. Budding, he went back to the prison.
 As Dr. Budding says, escapes of any
 kind are rare, and the romantic escape, from prison at least. is seldom heard l of any more. William Hohenzollern, interned in q Dutch castle, apparently never thinks of putting poison in the guards afternoon tea or of burrowing his way out of the grounds of his es- tate, as any high spirited monarch used to do in like circumstances. Louis l Napoleon got out of a similar awkward situation quite naturally by stroiling out of prison disguised in workmans $ clothes, and carrying a plank on his shoulder.
 Sln more ingenious was the famous Casanova. He was not of royal blood. but his exit from a prison cell over the
 room where the dreaded Inquisition
 met is one of tho most famous escapes
 in history. Casanova's escape has been
 spread out over several volumes. The
 most amusing incident Is that in which
 he desires to send a crowbar to fel-
 low prisoner. He planned to conceal
 the crowbar in a big Bible, but 1t stuck
 out a few inches beyond the covers,
 so he arranged with the jailer-who
 was either naturally or intentionally
 half -witted--to carry a dish of maca-
 roni and the Bible to his friend. The
 platter was very large and very full.
 The crowbar was placed in the Bible
 and the dish was laid on top or the
 book The idea was that the taller
 would have to walk so cautiously to
 avoid spiIiing the sauce that he would
 not notice the crowbar projecting from
 the book below the dish.
 You can imagine a modern prisoner
 evolving such a wild plan or a modern
 warden guilelessly bearing unexamined
 gifts from one cell to another. Yet the
 ruse succeeded and with many more
 breathIess adventures, Casanova and a
 fellow prisoner battered their way ons
 of one of the best prisons of 18th
 century Italy.
 In Casanovas day, a prisoner was shut up in fortress six feet thick and l. then left alone to get out any way he . liked. Once a day somebody came s around to see that he was there. and &I,s = e making, and other preparations went d on undisturbed. Now watchful guards & in the corridors, and walls too thin to S shut out the noise from pounding, se- d riously interfere with the traditional
 metods of a dramatic escape. r Once in a great while indeed, guards V are still hoodwinked by an audaeious 8. trick some years ago. in Newgate le Connecticut. a very unusual and orig m hal departure from prison occurred. A prisoner had died and his bods n was lying in a pine box in the chape m ready for burial 4 colored prisoner l- realized the possibilities of that box is Pretending illness with convincing
 realism at the dinner table, the negr' or was permitted to leave the room ans is go to his cell unattended. Instead, hl he went to the chapel. removed the bod re from the box and hid it in a corner 10. Then he fixed the nails in the lid s, ll5 that the box would open easily an, v- got inside.
 no After dinner. three Irish prisoner
 and a guard were sent to get the box ou The four got into the prison wagol
 with their burden. and drove off to tn ar. cemetery. As they set the box dowi so by the grave moan came from il ye The men stood staring at it with bulg ed ing eyes. Then a londer grown arose to "Howly murdther,' yelled the Irisl he convicts, The coprse is aloivei" am tn. they tore back to the jail. the guar ou only one step behind them-
 The corpse" lost no time in comin' go out of his kiding place. The guard q gun lay where he had propped It i
 his flight, and the prison wagon wa D. also conveniently left. With these i IT. help him. the fleeing convict had goo ire start before the pursuit began and h i'm got away.
 This is an escape after the batter ir- of medieval affairs. There is adventur ho in it. But such tricks are rarel js planned. let alone executed. Mostl! an prisoners who depart unofficially fror ed jail do so by collusion with a guart at bv force Gin small jails, not strongl -as poIiced), or occasionally by breal1in a their word when given liberties unde pm the honor system. And when the prts ng oner does carefully break out of jail b of one of these methods he usually end let by coming to Dr. Budding to help hiI for break in again.