Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 February 1895 — Page 4
THE BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20. 1895.
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AN ESCAPE EROAI PRISON. By CHARLES B. LEVIS <il. QUAD).
Consumers of diewiig tobacco whu are willing to paij a little more than tbe price charged for the ordinan) trade tobaccos, will find this brand superior to all others BEWARE Of IMITATIONS. B. F. «]OSL*IN 1(11114 >B (he Iliifliest Grade I!ra/.ll UIock
l Copy right. 1895. l»y Charles B. I.eu 1 I was assistant warden at prison when (ieorRe CunninRhaiu .enter I its doors on a ten year -eiitenee, and 1 was the official who one day looked into his cell and found it empty The newspapers had more or less to say about “a mysterious escape,” but none of the re porters got the full details or the real
facts iu the case.
(ieorge Cunningham was a young man of 22, and though his parents were highly respectable people he was wild | and wayward. He was finally east off ! by tin father and became a professional j gambler, hut it was said of him that he j was not vicious. One day, after ho had I made a call at a store, ii was discovered that a robbery had been committed Cnnningliani was arrested and convicted on circumstantial evidence The fact that he was a gambler satisfied the jury that ho would steal Just at the time there was a demand for reform, and the police were seeking to suppress various evils, and the young man was railroaded through without delay His father l extended neither help nor sympathy, i but with the old mother it was different She ramo to the prison to see how her
straight enough to do credit to an engi-
neer.
When the miners came to the wall of the prison, they took out some of the foundation stones and thi n dug to the surface of the ground inside. This brought them under a lumber pile and gave them an air shaft which could not bo discovered. From that point they no longer depended upon the fan. Drifting on 50 feit further, they made another air shaft, and just before reaching the passageway they erected a third. From the third they had 15 feet to goto reach the wall of the wing and 20 feet to leach Cunningham's cell Neither Girard nor any of his men eve r visited the prison, but C'nuningham’H mother was there very often. I am certain that she knew nothing about the tunnel, but Girard met her several times as she left the prison and ascertained the lay of the ground within. When told that Cun ninghain occupied the cell on the northwest corner of the wing, and that the cell was within five feet of the wall, he wanted nothing more. So far as 1 could ascertain, the prisoner received no hint that men were working for his liberty until the miners had reached the wall of the wing. Then a note was smuggled in to him by a visitor I noticed a change in him at that time, but as ho feigned to be sick 1 supposed his nervousness was duo to some
news as possible about escaped prisoners. We had but little to say in this case, and the public was informed by such reporters as discovered the existence of a tunnel that the prisoner had dug his way to an air chamber and had no confederati s A reward was offered, and we made every t flort to recapture the man ami discov ; those who had aided him Not one of the latter could ho trai' <i Before leaving tie house Girard had -'.111 it for about half price, and the m w mYii< r \\.i> about ready to move in wh< n we found that end of the tunnel Five years afti r the escape I took pass on a sailing vi --el fium Loudon to tii ' cape of Good Hope. There was one ottaiv passenger—a man named George Wilson Wo liked each other from tho first hour, and after tho voyage had fairly begun we spun many an evening yarn to each other on deck or in tho cabin. One night when we were within a week’s sail of the cape Wilson suddenly turned to me and laughingly asked if Cunningham had ever been recaptured As tho incident had not been mentioned before, I at once suspected him of having a hand in the escape. Ho admitted it and gave mo the particulars us I have related them. At tho time of the escape lie went by the name of Girard, but his real
name was Wilson.
| A year after Cunningham's escape, though I had not before heard of it, Ills
I presume we have used over one hundred bottles of Piso's Cure for Consumption in my family, and I am continually advising others to get it. Undoubtedly it is the Best (iough Medicine I ever used.—W. C. Miltenberger, Clarion, Pa., Dec. 29, 1894. 1 sell Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and never have any com- JLjHCTaraEfJfc hunts.—E. Shorey, i ostmustcr^ horey Kansas, Dee. 21st, 1894. tuua 0 ■jMSQCSQDZBSQljlPi
was-Dunn .land to leave him money physical ailment. There was a period of father died. Tho convict had been hv-
and weep over bis sad fate, and all o r us were sorry for her. At the same time everybody felt friendly toward the con vict. We had read the reports of his trial and realized that them might he a mistake, and his demeanor after reach ing the prison counted greatly in his favor. Ho was made assistant shipping clerk, and a better behaved pristine’uoyur entered a penal institution i!
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three or fonr days when he complained of feeling badly and was excused from work. This was about the time the tunnel reached the wall of the wing The plan of Girard and his miners was to go straight to Cunningham’s cell. No measurements could be taken and no surveys made, and that the tunnel was a success has been considered a wonderful thing. Only four days before it was finished I had decided to have the gr on ml tier of cell- whitewashed and Yetit.ilat ed. The idea was to double up the men temporarily, and had it been carried out Cunningham’s cell would have been vn cant for a couple of weeks. The con tractor who was to put in the ventilators fell sick, and the work had to go over. The miners worked ten hours per day at tlie tunnel and did not. hurry themselves. They met with considerable rook and had several caveins and were about DO days in getting to the end of their tun net When tin y believed themselves to be directly under Cunningham's cell, work was stopped for three or four days During this interval Girard purchased a disguise, booked tho prisoner to sail for Cuba on a certain date and arranged about the train ho was to take for New York In our prison, at that timo of year, all the convicts were looked up after dinner on Saturday, and later on
bomi of THE RKt'ouTF i cm i.Flt were marched out in srpiails to tho bath had been with us three months when a u,,, l ' l "' I'arber s I be miners had o oet man named Girard, who was a sporting concrete to break through and a pa' r - m.an and had been the partner of Con '»k’ xf"" 1 ' ''ft They got through tho ningham, drew the sum of $20,0(10 in a concrete about ,t o clock of a Saturday lottery. He gave out, as we afterward j afternoon. Cunningham had just rotnrnIearned, that ho proposed to spend every I ,!, i fiom the baths At I o clock I passed dollar of this money if necessary to gel j around the corridor to look at a leaking tho young man out of prison. I?" bi-t I steam pipe, and ■. • I turned the coiner moved through a lawyer for executive I saw Cimniiigiiam sitting on the floor, clemency, but Cunningham's father op with his back to the door, reading a
posed this, and the project was ahai8 doned. It was given out that all hope was despaired of, and after a few da vs the matter was dropped out of sight. The prison grounds occupied ten acres, inclosed by a 12 foot wall. Tho building consisted of a large main building four stories high, with a wing three stories high on each side. Tho east wing
ing in Cuba for many months. His moth er sold off everything and joined him there, and later on they went to Aus tralia. The young man had seen tho er ror of his ways and thoroughly reformed, though Wilson laughingly admitted that ho himself was as had as ever. 1 told you at tho start that Cunningham was convicted on circumstantial evidence. A package of money lying on a desk had been taken, and tho merchant swore that uoono but the young man had been near it or could have taken it I was inclined to think Cunningham guilty, and it puzzled me to think Girard would go to all that trouble to free u man who was simply a good friend of Ins It was all made plain now, however Wilson (Girard) frankly told me that ho stole tho package himself before Cunningham entered tho store. Ho had a horror of going to prison,.and therefore remained passive while an innocent man was eon victed. Though a had man, he had a conscience, and Cunningham had scarcely donned tho prison dress before plans wi re being laid to get him out Wilson said that the tunnel and escape and what he b IS I on tbe liense, tog. titer with (tis own loss of time, stood him in about $(i,000, but ho considered it tho best spent money of his life and was enthusiastic over tho convict’s reformation. From that day to this I Itave not heard of the man who left mo so quietly by tho underground passage, but hope h ’ is still living and an honor to his mother, whoi ntlioi Highly believed in him when
all others thought him guilty.
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up, und he xviis n fr<-H limit The end “f the tunnel was i xuci Iv liclow the centi i
nf Ins cell.
A suit, of clothes had been bought for the convict, and wlit n he had donned them he made a dummy of his p’-ison suit and placed it. on the bed. He left, at 5 o’clock. Tito stone was let down, so
the female prison, and the west Mint nothing could be suspected by one
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wing was given tip to short term and well behaved prisoners. Tho murderers, highway robbers and other despurati men were confined in tho main building. Cunningham had one of the corner cells on the ground tier and was tints at the extreme end of the west wing. There were two tiers, or 120 cells, in this wing. From Hie end of the wing to the wall j was about 125 feet. The nearest house j outside the wall was 70 feet away and | was a cottage owned and occupied by n laborer This cottage stood on the bank ’ of a river and quite nlnno. BotAreen tin end of the wing and t he wall wi re pileof lumber for chair and wagon making | Just before Cunningham came to tin | prison a great lot of green lumber was | pile d np fosenson and roofed over, lenv | ing only n passageway 15 feet wide next to the wing. Girard’s first, move was b
buy the laborer’s cottage,
legally made and published in the pa pers, but none of us at the prison ban petted toseuit. If wo bad, it would havi made no difference, as property aronml tho prison was constantohtinguig bands. After getting possession of the house Girard went np into Pennsylvania 1 and hired three miners to work f |,r him [ No donbt lie told them his plans, but j the promise of double pay made them
I willing to take chances.
Tlte first move was to enlarge the drain from tho cellar and run it down tho bank into the water. This work was done openly and aboveboard and with out exciting comment When the drain | had been completed, the miners came on from tho coal regions. Girard brought an old woman from Philadelphia to keep house for him, and he disguised himself as much as possible and erected a sited hack of the house and claimed to be an inventor. Pome of the reporters called and interviewed him, and he exhibited portions of machinery which, he claimed, would eventually materialize into a
loom for weaving cotton cloths.
No one ever saw the miners about. From the cellar of tho cottage they began a drift or tunnel for the wall of the
Girard had purchased all the
glancing into tho coll. At <> o’clock a piece of bread and n cup of coffee were shoved under all tho doors, and at 7 a watchman passed along and threw the light of his lantern into each coll. He was completely deceived by thedninmy, nor did any one have the slightest suspicion of tho trick that had boon played until all tho prisoners wore turned into tho corridor Sunday morning for inspec-
| tion.
1 made tho count myself, and finding 1 Cunningham absent I went to his coll and asked if ho were sick. It was only ! when I laid my hand on the dummy i that I realized what, had happened. It j was a long two hours, however, before i we ascertained how ho had departed, j The lirst idea was that one of the night turnkeys had boon bribed, and it was j an hour before wo wore satisfied on t hat
Tho sale was point. Tho next was that Cunningham
was in hiding about (lie prison. We searched high and low mid were still at it when the warden made the discovery
county and received only a common | school education, tho best, to bo had then. He was no more fond of Sunday school and tho church than ho was of leaving his play in tho fields and going j to day school, and he. was nearly 10 years nf ago when he first attended the country Presbyterian church with his parents one Sunday at the conclusion of t ho week of prayer. Communion services ,
were held iu the morning U'tHii •Jrffi" I f'i f ( j „ « was unfamiliar with the way he should , ’ conduct himself. He says: “It was a vJ 1,1 sSWcl PO,
long sermon that morning, and at the nonclusiou I was pntty well worn out and tired Tho sermon was over at last, however, and the elders nf the Presbyterian church were distributing the bread and wine. Not knowing that such things were only for tho members of the church, I partook heartily ef both articles, much to the trepidation of my father and mother Still 1 did not tinderstand for what purpose these things were done, and boylike I received the peculiar impression that they were served ns re froshnients to he partaken of after long sermons Thoroughly imbued with this idea, when tho elder came around again I accosted him thus: 'Say, older, you haven’t got a littloehoeso, have von?’ It is only noce sary to add that my patents were greatly mortified, and it took a j.’oo(t month of tjill miking to their
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that :i stone in tln< thmr of the cell hud friends to explain mv umornneo and m bcin i.iiiqieioit with, it wa.s but nafunii uoccnco. —iTiliadcIphiu T imes,
to suppose that tho prisoner had lifted the stone himself, and as we lifted it up we expected tar tiod him diggipe he- 1
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necessary tools, and as fast as the drift
HE LEFT AT 5 O’CLOCK,
ueath. Our astonishment cmi ho imagined when vo found how much digging had been done. When Cnnuinghum went out with tho miners, they blocked up the tunnel at the wall and did it so
Hud Ills Appetit.. Witt. Him.
Prominent among tlio curly (rmppein and hunters was Peter Fisher, who lived down on the straits. Peter was a very large, strong man, capable of much en durance, and was better known as a heavy eater than as a hunter and trap per. It is said of him that when lie nndertook a journey of several days’ duration he would eat enough to last him before he started, as he thought that an easier way of carrying the “grub.” One of the most prominent farmers of Clallam county said that ho ate a whole venison, bones and pH, for a supper and midnight lunch. Of conrse tho bones were roasted before eating. Jani"-j G Swan avers Peter ate four blanket pieces of whale blubber at one meal, and a person no loss prominent than ex-Collector Charles M. Bradshaw is authority for the statement that ho ate three-quarters of an elk in the space of three hours, devouring all this vast quantity of meat in three luncheons.—Seattle Telegraph.
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progn s.-i’d the dirt was hauled back into effectually that it took two men all day
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tho cellar and ran into the river through the drain. As the river was a good sized stream, and as the dirt was run down only at night, they ran littlerisknf discovery. The excavation was large enough for two men to work abreast and G feet high, und Hie diit was n moved on a wheelbarrow At the mouth of the drift Girard rigged up an air fan, which was driven by hand power, and the miners did a neat piece of work iu going the distance of 70 feet to the wall. In no place did they come nearer than five feet to tbe surface, and the tumid was
Sunday to get through it. Our idea was that Cunningham had tunneled out into the lumber piles, and 200 men worked for many hours in removing the lumber. Indeed it was 10 o'clock Monday forenoon before wo discovered that the tunnel continued on beyond tho prison grounds and almost night before we located the other end in the cellar of the cottage. By that time tho miners had returned home and our man was on the
ocean blue.
Whether right or wrong, tlte policy of all orisons is to give out as little
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" ill supply the people with flrstelass GROCERIES at the lowest living prices. I also keep a full line of Glassware and Qneensware. Decorated Dinner Sets, owls and Pitchers, and Tin ware of all kinds. Salt by the barrel. I keep a line line of Toilet Soaps. All kinds of Fruits, Nuts ami Candies for Holiday Trade. Last hut not least, will give with every box of Mascott’s Baking Powder—price 25 rents—a child s quadruple silver set, embossed knife, fork and spoon. Just the thing.
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A quarter of a century ago fever patients were treated in a way that at present, seems little less than barbarous. They could get no water either by entreaty or strategy and were frequently almost starved, on tho theory that a fever must never lie fed. Nowadays eminent medical men give fever patients eggs, chops, beef and other articles in short, they feed them on the dishes they most liked when in health. Enormous
quantities of water are given, and baths ' as well, with a much larger percentage | . Sul , 8cr i bc for lb
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