Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — FOUR CONVICTS ESCAPE [ARTICLE]

FOUR CONVICTS ESCAPE

Gate Opened to Admit Ice Men Furnished Means of Exit. Four Men Who Got Out Were Recaptured Shortly Afterward and Returned to Prison Cells. Ossining, N. Y., July 29 —The most daring escape in the history of Sing Sing prison was attempted and four convicts enjoyed a brief Leave of liberty before they were recaptured. About 9 o’clock a gate on the north wall swung back to allow a cart to pass to the ice house, located outside' the walls, and at the same moment a large body of convicts lounging about the yard in charge of a keeper made a dash for the open gate. Four of them managed to get through before the keeper was able to swing the gate hack and lock it One of the men was captured while lurking in the shadows of an abandoned shoe shop. Another was found in the ice house and a third on a more remote part of the prison grounds. The remaining number of the quartette was caught near Scar* borough, about two miles away, while riding between two cars on a freight train. ;i , Mount McKinley Expedition Fails. Seward. Alaska, July 29.—The Mount McKinley expedition is now returning to Seward, haying failed to reach the summit of the mountain.