Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-10-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DESPEBADO AT BO W-STIILET.  At Bow-street Pollee-open some particulars were reported rated.° to the attempt of Peter Fromer to escape from the cells at Bow-street. The prisoner had been apprehended by Sergeant Andrew. at Swansea seine weeks awn, under an extradition warrant, for having murdered a white man and a p& iceconstable at Bull Biter, firma, in the juriselictron of the Coined States of America, and he bad b-en remanded from week to w,,k pending the arrival of the depointione taken abroad. Ile is described aa a most deeperate character, who has on two or three previous OCC•Bi011s escaped from prison. The white man is said to lama been in partnership with the primmer on the covet of the river, and they , ehered a smell bout; but a barrel having taken pIACIS between them. the prisoner shot his peeper, and took pom-seion of the boat and the other joint riiperty of the linen. He was pursued by s coloarid officer of police, who Knight to apprehend henefor the murder or the white moo, but the prisoner struck him down with& pickaxe. and killed him on,the spot. He then took to his boat arid the river, and after neme• time applied to the captain of the ship, Commander Dunkin, bound for Simmer, turn pares° to England or Wales, offering his boat as security for the ensilage. The captain declined to have anything to do with him, having some simpicion as to the , character of the nine, and he twice re, used to take lain on board. Some days alter leaving St. Urine's Sound, however, the captain was sterilati to dud that the, prisoner had got on board, and had concealed himself in the "hatches." The captain said he had no alternative but to take him on to Wales, where, through the operation of the telegraph, Sergeant Andrews was in gumt of him. The captain mound Lim of having committed murder, but he denied it, although COll- that he had querrelled with his partner and left him. While en board, however, he confessed to another sailor, named Rogers, that a policeman hat. leg presented a loaded revolver at him, he (prisoner) struck down the officer with his axe and left hue dead or alive, while another men, who followed and got on lais (prisoner's) boat, was pitched overboard. None of these particulars were given on Thursday. and the prisoner, being formally remended, wes put back in the cells to be conveyed away by the prison van at six o'clock. He we. the I only occupant of the cells, one Pt is young man named Wileon, who had been committed for six rnonthe.for felony. It is conjectured that the primmer, either with or, without the assistance of bin fellowprisoner/succeeded in tearing up a strip of boarding from the half -rotten floor of the cell, and passing it through the narrow aperture of the ' door, contrived to draw back the outside bolt, after previously working at the keyhole, and ' forcing back .the spring latch by means of a metal pencil or some such instrument. Wilecin , hee since stated that he had been working at it all the , afternoon, when the gaolers' backs were turned, and eventually, having forced open the door and escaped. Ihe closed it again. Enraged at this, Wilson at once gave the alarm, and a woman who had seen the fugitive climbing up the water-pine by the roof of the court, gave a loud scream. The gaoler, Pitman, and under-gaoler, Berry, at once went in penult, assisted by the court-keeper, Washburn., and Short, the second usher of the court, who also sent other constables to watch the outside of the building. The pri. miner was chased along. the roofs of the adjacent  houses by Wisslaburne and Berry, Short keeping guard on the leads of a building on which he had jumped, and which, giving way portly, nearly precipitated him to the depths below. The prisoner jumped down into the back yard of Mr. Gotelee's officer, in Bow street, a depth of over fourteen feet, and was followed by Washburn° and Berry, who, taking up a broonistick, threatened to enmsh his brains ont if he continued the struggle. The man then yistded to his pursuers, and was safely brought back to the cells by the latter, who sustained no other injuries than a slight bruise or two.