The Sun. — 1847-11-16 (London, England)

ESCAPE OF A DEBTOR FROM  JERSEY GAOL. Jersey promises to become celebrated for the ingenuity with which prisoners contrive to slip away from the fangs of their creditors. Mr. Leopold Murhoff, who was confined in our gaol for a debt of about 8001., has followed Mr. Wake's example and departed without leave. We can now indulge our readers with an accurate account of this little incident. Mr. Nlurhoff, who had been under confinement for a considerable period, had evidently become tired of his quarters, as a short time ago he made an unsuccessful attempt at escape. On the present occasion, however, his plans had been more successfully laid, and, ingenious as Mr. Wake's mode of exit may have been, we must say that it was surpassed by Mr. Murhoff's, at least in boldness of design and intrepidity of execution. It appears that Mrs. Murhoff, who was in England, had procured a small vessel which brought her to Jersey, and lay off St. Brelade's Bay, in readiness to receive the fugitive should the attempt prove successful. At half-past 8 o'clock Mr. Murhoff ascended the chimney of his cell, and having reached the roof put himself in communication with a confederate, who had taken his station in a stable court adjoining the Kensington Repository, Kensington place. Mr. Murhoff was provided with a cord, which was thrown down to the person below, who fastened the end of it to a strong rope, which was immediately pulled aloft by Mr. Murhoff, and made fast to a chimney head ; the assistant in the meantime having found a suitable fixture for the lower end of the cable, Mr. Murhoff executed his perilous descent with no other inconvenience than the fall of an excellent new hat, which was picked up in the yard on the following morning,. The night being clear and dry, something unusual had been observed going on upon the gaol root; which had attracted the attention of a number of passers by, who continued to view the descent in the same cool manner that they would have witnessed a skilful performance on the tight _1.11,3% and then took their departure very quietly tn ut ever dreaming of giving the alarm.— Guernsey Star.  the G, stave Count Gustave , Picardie states that the death of The position was caused by accident, and not by suicide. all bear out the of the body, it says, would not at nothing on the part of the deceased could lead to the supposition of a suicide, and idea that he intendrd though afflicted at the jul'a,ttke away with himself; alappearedmade li hin:ent given against him, he to have to bear it, and had nielotilrdversed at some length even on the morning of the 2d necessary on several arrangements which t his irnprigonmont. to make relative to his atfeirs durinw:ild be founyd '.i'eentt, the well An inquest, before Mr. Rupert eta Mr. lien; e, of Reading,, has been held on the body of known trainer, of Ascot, who was the floor of his sitting-room, on Tuesday last(l' lYin,,g," silence, close to the heath. Mr. Brown, su3r'gh - -of Sunning-hill, who was called in as soon £l3 the bOd°37",;:„; found, early in the morning, having, given an ofinionthat apoplexy' was the cause o, death', the jury jam,. diately returned a verdict to that effect. The deceastd had just attained his 63d year.