Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — JAIL BARRED TO HIM. [ARTICLE]

JAIL BARRED TO HIM.

American Prisoner lij. China Receives Cold Welcome. When the Chinese day watchman at the American consulate went his -rounds the other morning he discovered that one of the cells that should have contained a prisoner was empty. Door and window were intact, and there was no sign to show how the occupant of the cell—C.. S. Buttrlck-—had effected his escape. Buttrlck. was serving a sentence of three years’ imprisonment on a charge of embezzlement, which was heard at Tien-Tsln.-- 4-~ ———— The flight watchman, who was at first suspected of connivance in the escape, returned to his post at 7 p. m. as usual. He told a perfectly straightforward story. He came on duty, he said, as usual, at 7 o’clock the preceding evening. Buttrlck was then out for his daily walk, but returning at about 9 p. ni. called for a tansan and then retired to his cell. The watchman saw nothing more of him, and when he left at 7 a. m. he placed the keys, as usual, on a table where the day watchman would know where to find them. Another version i£ that when Buttrick returned from his evening walk he was unable to get into the consulate. He knocked and rang for some time without any response, and finally, in high dudgeon at the inhospitality of the consulate, went elsewhere for his night’s lodging. Out informant adds that he would not be surprised if Buttrlck turned up some day to lodge a complaint .against the American authorities for locking him out in this Inhuman manner.—North China News.