Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04

situation quite naturally by strollin
out Of prison disguised in workman
clothes, and carrying Il plank on hi
shoulder.
Still moro ingenious was the famou
Casanova. He was not of royal blood
but his exit from q prison cell owe
the room where the dread Inquisitiol
met is one Of the famous escapes II
history. Casanova's escape has bcel
spread out over several volumes. Tht
most amusing incident is that in which
| he desires to send a crOwbar to a fel
| low prisoner. He planned to concea
the crowbar i'm big Bible, but i
stuck out Il few inches beyond the
covers. so he arranged with the jaler-
who was either naturally or inten.
tionally half -witted-to carry dish o.
marcaroni and the Bible to his friend
The platter was very large and very
full. The crowbar was placed in the
Eibla anu the dish was laid on top OF
the Book. The idea was that the jailel
avoid spilling the sauce that he would
not notice the cr0wbar projecting from
the Book below the dish.
An Ingenious Escape.
fEou can imagine a modern prisoner
evolving such wild pan Or modern
warden guilclessly bearing unexamincd
gifts from one cell to another. Yet the
rusc succeeded, and with many more
brcLthlcss adventures. Casanova and q
fellow prisoner battered their way out
Of one Of the best prisons Of eighteen
tn century Italy.
In Casanova's day, 4 prisoner was
shut up in Il fortress six feet thick and
then left alone TO get out any way lie
liked. Once Il day somebody came
around 10 Gcr that he was there, and
after this interruption, digging. rope
making and other preparations went on
undsturbcd Now. watchful guards i'm
the corridors and walls too thin 10 shut
out tic noise from pounding, seriously
interfere with the traditional methods
IF dramatic escape.
Once in great while. indeed. guards
are still hoodwinked by an audncious
trick. Some years ago in Ncwgate,
Conn. very unusual and original de-
oartuIc from prison occurred.
y prisoner had died, and his body
was lying in a pine box in the chapel
ready for burial. A co:ored prisoner
realized the possibilities Of that box.
Pretending illness with convincing
realism at the dinner table, the negro
was permitted TO leave the room and
30 to his cell unattended. Instead. he
went To the chapel. removed the body
from the box and hid it in 4 corner.
Then he fixed the nails in the lid SO
that the Lux would open easily, and
got inside.
After dinner. three Irish prisoners
and u guard were sent to get the box.
The four got into the prison wagon
with their burden and drove off 10 the
cemetery. As they set the box down
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The men stood staring at it with bulg-
ing eyes. Then Il louder groan arose.
"IIuwly murdthcr!" yelled the Irish
convicts, "the corpse is aloive," and
they tore back to the Jail, the guard
only one step behind them.
The "orpsc" lost no time in coming
out of his hiding pace. The guards
gun lay where Inc had dropped it in his
liight, and the prison wagon was also
conveniently left. With these to hep
him, the fleeing convict had q good
start before the pursuit began and he
got away.
This is an escape after the pattern
of medieval affairs. There is adVen-
ture i'm it. But such tricks arc rarely
planned, let alone executed. Mostly,
prisoners who depart unofficially from
jail do SO By co.luson with IL guard,
hy force tin small jails. not strongly
DnliccdD, or occasionally by hrckang
their word when given liberties under
the honor system. And when the
prisoner does carefully break out or
jail by one Of these methods he usually
ends by coming: tn Dr.. Duddints to
help him break in again.