The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-12-15
SCALES WALLS
OF DOLLHOUSE,
FLEES TO CITY
Bloodh4ounds Put on Trail of
Charles Bryer and Track
Him to Bismarck
3rd ESCAPE IN TWO YEARS
Bryer Was One of Four Men To
Escape From Prison Over
Year and Half Ago

at large from the state peniten-
tlary today, after making a dar-
ing and clever escape over the
prison buildings. Bloodhounds
traced him to the 500 depot in
Bismarck, and word was sent
broadcast today for authorities
to watch for him.
. his second escape here. He
got out of the prison a year ago last
March when four prisoners tuhneled
out under the dining room walls. He
was captured several months ago in
Kansas and was brought back to serve
the rest of his term Of five years for
assault with intent to commit rob-
berry.
Bryer's escape from the prison ap-s
parently was the result of careful
planning. He worked in the boiler
house. AS he was returning from work
about 3 o'clock last night, after dark.
lie Jumped upon q storm shed just be-
fore reaching the cell house, scaled a
water pipe to the roof of the cell
mouse and slid down another water
pipe at the corner of the Office and
main building. He dropped pair Of
SCISSORS on the outside of the prison.
Hounds on Trail.
The escape was made at tima
when guards were making their
rounds. Bryer was coming alone from
his work. He acted very quickly. His
absence was discovered not long after
and the bloodhounds were put on his
trail. :. "
Buyers escape came at the conclu-
sion OF the pardon board session. a
time when many prisoners. II denied
clemency, seek to escape. He had
not, however, applied for"clemencv at
this session.
He was known as good worker
and was not hard man to handle. .
Daring Escape
bryer. while a good prisoner, is de-
clared by prison officials to be
hardened criminal. His escape last
hlght could not have been made. nv
any other than an athlete. thew de-.
clare.
This makes the third escape for him
in less than two years. After hf,
escaped from here a year ago LAST
march ne was sentenced to one to Is.
years in the Iowa penitentiary for
burglary Last Christmas day he es-
capped from the Iowa prison with
Charles yelling, who recently killed
kenmarc policeman and was cap-
tured at Minot, and is being returned
TO the Iowa penitenitary to complete a
life sentence for murder yelling
was brought to the penitentiary here
for a short time recently for safe
keeping.
H. : Prison Record
The prison record on Bryer fol-
lows:
Charles Bryer, alias James Cellen.
alais James, Cline, alias Dutch"
RECEIVED at the North Dakota
State Penitentiary Nov. 25, 1919, to-
serve a term of five % yeArs for the
crime OF Assault with intent to com
init robbery in the first degree:'
: "On March II, 1920, Charles Bryer
escaped from the N. d. Prison with
four other prisoners, Arthur Buck,
Ray Burke and John Stupard, by tun-
neling thru the Inmates dining room
and over the wall John Stupard was
apprehended week later.
''On May 3, 1921, Charles Bryer was
returned to the N. D. Prison from
Fredionia, Kan, where he was appre-
nended. Charles Bryer had escaped
from the Iowa State Prison on De-
cember 25, 1920, with three other
prisoners. He was serving term of
twenty (2O) years in Iowa.
ION December IA, 1921, Charles
Bryer escaped from the N. D. Prison
by scaling over the dollhouse, and de-
scending down a water pipe between
the main cellhOuse and the Office
building"