The Capitol Hill Weekly News The Oklahoma Fairdealer (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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|& FBOfESSIOHAL DIRECTORYj
PHONH 2104. Office and RnM»nc*,
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Dr. I. N. Cottle
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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Ctpftol Hi 1, - Okla.
DR. W. C. MOTTLE
PHYSICIAN AfiD SUEGECH
Office Corner Robinson and Avenna
G. Over fitate Bank. All calls answer-
ed promptly. Office Phone 3491.
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Liberty
Once Doors
of Sing-Sing
Close
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Phyiician and Surgeon
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BUjjjjl CITY BUSINESS
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PHONE 2233
Price & Perkins
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
418 Lee Building
PHONH RED 1012
Residence Phone 5932
G. P. WARD
Loans and Real Estate
115 1-2 W. Grand Oklahoma City, Okla
THE ENTERPRISE SEED CO.
E W YOR K.—Escapes
from prisons are by
no means a rarity, and
will not be until
plucky and energetic
criminals have passed
from the earth; but
there probably never
was a more daring and
romantic escape than
that of william Green from Sing Sing
a short time ago.
When the delivery Is described as
that of William Green. It Is not for-
gotten that four other convicts es-
caped with him. Hut It was Green's
delivery and not theirs. His was the
conception, his the execution; the
other men simply accepted Ills Invita-
tion to go along with him when he had
made the way, beaten down the keep-
ers. and. In the presence of 195 con-
victs, spent 20 minutes In leisurely
I carrying out his plan.
But for the crowded condition of
Ring Sing prison he could not have
done It—at least, not in just this way.
A man of his determination and ln-
j genulty would probably have found
some other. For, as a well-known
prison official said to a New York
Times reporter:
“Well, the Brooklyn bridge war
I opened In 1883, wasn't It? And after
j that the transit conditions In New
York had to get to the point of unen-
durability before another bridge was
opened, didn’t they? And your Sub-
way was opened only when the ele-
vated railroads were absolutely un-
able to carry the passengers, wasn't
| it? And your subsequent subway and
| other transit Improvements have come
| only when the patience of the public
was taxed to the laat notch, haven't
they?
"That's the answer. You can’t get
a reform In New York state until con-
ditions have become positively un-
j bnarable. It's no use to point out the
| advisability of a reform; you've got
to prove that not a wheel can be turn-
| ed until the reform Is enacted. Other-
| wiso you won't get It.”
New Prison projected.
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122 W. Ut
Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Insurance
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OKLAHOMA CITY
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FISCHER PRINTING COMPANY
117 ta 119 N. Broadway
Pk*a* 2294 OKLAHOMA CITY
In 1907 a commission was appoint-
ed to relieve the congestion In Sing
Sing prison. It recommended Bear
| Mountain as a site for a new prison,
and work was commenced. It went
on for two years, and then J. Pler-
pont Morgan, Mrs. Fdwnrd II. Harrl-
man, the Rockefellers, and other rich
i peopie got together, bought up the
surrounding land, and presented It to
| the state as a park, with the proviso
| that no pnrt of the ground should be
used for prison purposes.
The state accepted the gift, with the
conditions, and that put to naught all
that had been done In the meantime
In the way of relieving the Sing Sing
congestion and made !t necessary to
begin all over again.
This escape of Green's was more or
less of a novelty. The usual course
has been to make a rush. But Green,
In the roost leisurely manenr In the
world, attacked the two keepers in
cha.ga of the dormilory, laid them out,
then took out a saw which he had se-
cured somewhere, sawed at a window
for 20 minutes, Invited his fellow-con-
victs to Join him, was reinforced by
four of them, dropped out of the win-
dow, and disappeared.
Few Get Away.
Warden Frost Bald to a Times re-
porter that In his Incumbency there
bad been six deliveries at Sing Sing,
and tn five cases out of the six the
convicts were caught before they were
out of the prison precincts—that was
— ■ rj= ( a case In which four men made a rush.
In another case. In which two men
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A. P. Qwartnoy
E, B, Gwartney
Gwartney’s Cash Grocery
COLLEGE AND ELDER
STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS
Notions and Fresh Meats
EAST CAPITOL HILL
COL. F. I. BRET2
Sale Crier and Auctioneer
Fine atock a specialty, satisfaction or no pay
Residence,
CAPITOL HILL
Diagram
Escape at Sing Sing.
quite near that where Green and his
followers fled the other night.
All clues were found false, and no
attempt to capture the men proved
successful. But while on their way
down the river they quarreled, and
one of them shot the other with
Hulee’s pistol and then committed sui-
cide.
Escapes from Sing Sing have not
been very frequent, and no concerted
Jail-breaks have been successful. Be-
fore the tall Iron fence was built along
the river front prisoners sometimes es-
caped over the Hudson Ice In winter.
Once a prisoner constructed a duck
shaped helmet out of felt obtained
from a hat factory operated In the
prison. He floated out Into the river
with It drawn over his head, drifting
with the tide for a mile, when he land-
ed and made good his escape.
Almost Gained Liberty.
Two men were caught once under a
load of barrel staves a contractor was
hauling away from the prison yard. A
guard stationed on the Ossining bluff
noticed that the horse was strr ling
harder than usual In making t up-
hill trip and ordered the load thrown
off.
Alfred Walker, who was once a
prison contractbr, had a flowing heard.
A prisoner made up a beard like his
and drove out of the prison tn the bug-
gy tn which he had Just driven In,
none of the guards suspecting him. He
was overhauled a mile away and re-
captured. Another prisoner. In the
days before the close supervision and
the practise of patrolling the walls, at-
tempted to ride away on a saddle
horse on which a contractor named
Anthon Murray had ridden up to the
prison. The horse was shot from un-
der him and he was captured.
The most remarkable Jail delivery in
recent years, before Green's adventure
was recorded, was a thing that hap-
pened In Sing Sing on July 28 last.
The sudden sight of an open gate,
unguarded and within easy reach,
stirred an unpremeditated wanderlust
in the hearts of several hundred pris-
oners. Twelve had the courage of
their convictions nnd broke for liber-
ty, but of these eight wavered and
I turned back when bullets from repent-
ing rifles In the hands of assembling
guards began to kick up the dust
about them. The four who kept going
unloved a period of hunted freedom
lasting for fifteen minutes 1n the case
of three of them and an hour for the
fourth.
Two Hours of Excitement.
The break occurred at 9:30 o’clock
nnd the next two hours were the most
exciting of any In the big prison since
i Warden Frost took charge, up to the
rushed the guards while they were at j time of Green’s flight. The warden
work in the kitchen, the men were j himself was In the prison yard when
the railroad track, and then caught a
freight train as It passed him at full
speed.
Saw Prisoner Board Train.
Had It not been for the fact that I
residents of Ossining who had beeu
attracted by the excitement In the
prison yard and out of It saw the pris-
oner swing In between two freight j
cars he probably would have succeed-
ed In getting away. Several citizens
ran down the bluff east of the prison
and notified Warden Frost that one of
his men was going south at twenty-
mile clip with a good hold on a
coupling device between two cars.
The attention of the warden’s fores
had been concentrated on the land ly- !
lng close to the river, and they were
still scurrying over It when the news
about the freight train reached them.
Six guards were Immediately hustled
Into an automobile, and, with an extra
supply of ammunition, were sent south
under orders to overhaul the freight
train and cut off retreat Into the hills
along Its left flank.
Another squad was sent directly
down the track on foot to see that no-
body wearing a prisoner’s gray es-
caped tn that direction, while a pas-
senger train waB commandeered to
rush a Bquad past the freight and form
an advance guard for ft.
The freight was ordered stopped by
wire from a signal tower and the pas-
senger train speeded past It, stopping
Immediately afterward long enough to ;
let off Warden Frost’s men. They be-
gan their search of the freight on a
siding Just north of Scarborough, Into
which It had been directed to pull by
the railroad officials on request of
Warden Frost.
The guards coming rrom the rear ■
and those who covered the roadways ;
leading toward the hills closed In grad- ]
ually, while the squad that had come j
on the passenger train searched care- j
fully through the freight cars.
At first it seemed that their quarry
had got away from them, but suddenly |
he darted out from between two cars
and made a break northward up the
track, only to find himself an easy cap-
tive In the hands of a squad of guards
who were too tired from their long
run from Ossining to chase him fur-
ther and were willing to use their re-
peating rifles.
The prisoner, by skillfully manoeu-
verlng between the cars and under
them, had escaped detection during
the first part of the search, but had
finally broken from cover to take a
chance on the (leetness of his heels.
He was marched back up the railroad
to Ossining surrounded by the three j
squads that came out to make the cap- j
ture certain. When he was taken to j
his cell the count stood 1,836. which j
was the full number of Warden Frost's I
list.
ED J. BAUMBACH
GEO. M. FLANAGAN
KNOWN AS
ED & GEORGE
500 West Main
PLUMBING and GAS FITTING
No Contract Too Large or Tea Small
To Receive Our Prompt Attention
Business Phone 460 Oklahoma City
Leeper Bros*
Lumber Co.
Lumber and Hardware
South of State Bank of Capitol Hill.
Phone 7657
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at lowest rate of interest. We make
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caught before they had been gone
i three hours.
The historic Instance of an escape
from Sing Sing was In 1893, when
| Roehl and Pallister escaped. It was
an unfortunate escape tor them, for
a few days later one of them shot the
other in a quarrel and then commit-
ted suicide. But In the meanwhile
they bad baffled all the efforts of the
| state to recapture them.
Pallister and Itoehl lay In wait for
! Hulse's partner, John W. Murphy, let
| him Into the death house, and shut on
i him the heavy, Ironbound oak door
! that shuts the corridor from sound
and Bight. Then they pinioned and
disarmed him and thrust him Into
Roehl's cell and locked him In.
Refused Their Freedom.
KILL the couch
mo CURE the LUNCSj
v,ith Dr. King’s
New Discovery
FOB G8“ds3 niSife.
AN9 ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES.
the guards began to shoot from the
north wall, nnd he nssumed command
of the situation, ordering that the
north gates he swung to and every
prisoner Inside marched as speedily as
possible to bis cell.
All work was shut down, and while
the guards pursued the four prisoners
outside the 1.832 prisoners remaining
—that was the number then. In this
prison built to hold 1 2on—were locked
In their cells, from which they could
hear the rifle shots nnd speculate up-
on the fate of tho four who were miss-
ing.
It was not dne to the marksmanship
of the guards that the prisoners were
recaptured. One of them, ran a dis-
tance of .700 yards under fire and foil
from exhaustion. Another made for
an lee house In the flat north of the
After that Itoehl nnd Pallister open prison wall, and succeeded In reaching
ed the cell of Carlyle W. Harris, the it, only to be dlaeovered by a search-
medical student who murdered his ing pnrtv as he was attempting to
wife, and offered him freedom. Harris crawl under the floor. A third made a
declined tt. They made the same of- clump of bushes 400 yards away In
fer to two other murderers, both of SDlte of the bullets that spattered
whom refused. In each case Roehl around him, and was hunted out of
and Pallister, having received the re- j his hiding place.
(uni, locked the cell doors on the \ The fourth had as exciting an ex-
EWERY 20
MiPlUT
The east side Interurban Car leaves 5:40 in the morning and the last car at
Robinson Street, east on D street for night.
The last one leaves Oklahoma City
Oklahomp City the first car leaving at' at 12 o'clock at night.
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103 1-2 West California
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OR HONE Y REFUNDED. I
doomed men.
Roehl and Pallister broke th-ough a
•kyilght, hoisted themselves to the
roof, dropped easily to the ground,
scaled a twelve-foot fence, got down to
the riverside, and shoved off In a small
perlence as any dime novel hero could
wish for. He worked his way nlong
the prison wall directly beneath the
guard towers, where ho was In easy
range, scaled a stone wall that was
higher than his head, braved a maze
A New Cure for Dipsomania.
A new and remarkably successful
treatment of dipsomania Is announced
by a medical paper. The patient who
has been cured was an apparently
hopeless case. P.ls doctor prescribed
a drug to be taken In minute doses to
begin with, saying:
“It Is a violent poison and car lie
absorbed only gradually. Tn tlr a the
system becomes Inured to !■„ The
drug must be mixed with your wine
or spirits at the rate of one drop the
first day, two the second and so on,
until your system Is able to assimilate
a whole glass of It. The drug will
discolor your wine."
The dlpsomanlnc dutifully did as
he was told, Increasing (he dose very
gradually. He observed also that he
became accustomed to drinking less
and less wine ns he Increased the
proportion of the drug. At last he
drank with pleasure a glass full of
the latter with only a dash of wine
In It. He now feels no craving for
wine or spirits. He went to thank
his doctor, and said: “Now, doctor,
tell me what that marvelous drug wae
which has made another man of me?“
“Water," said the doctor.
General Employment Agency
All kinds of help supplied for railroads and domestio
purposos. J. J. Grier Rock Island Eating Houses a spec-
ialty. Rock Island System. Phone 2551
S. R. RAYMOND,
President
A. L. NIMS,
Cashier
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF CAPITOL HILL
CAPITAL, $25,000.00
:We Want Your Business'
he has
boat Tte soene of the escape was | of railroad signal wires In leaping to
A Mystery.
“The sultan of Sulu says
only one wife."
"Yes, and since seeing his portrait
1 have wondered how he got her."
We pay interest on time deposits
We combine absolute safety with satisfactory service
A strong bank can accord liveral treatment to its patrons
We Invite Accounts on Merit and Strength of Our Facilities
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