Show I MURDERERS BREAK JAIL I Warden Says His Wife Who Has reared Aided the Notorious Biddies to Es Es- Escape r I cape Two cape Two Guards Shot by Desperadoes BIT Pa Fa Edward JanSO Edward and John ohu Biddle Riddle awaiting execution fl the he county jail for the murder of Grocer Thomas D. D Ehaney of Mount i ashington overpowered the guards at 4 o'clock this morning and es- es es a. a with which they cut the f. f Both oth h prisoners had been provided with saws barS in their cells ceils The prisoners occupied adjoining Cg ls on the second ange They evidently had assistance from froni the outside as both were armed t with tb revolvers Shortly o before 4 oclo o'clock k one of the thi fiddles f BIddIes called James Jam McGearY who wh bid hM d charge of the outside gates anc an and asked for or some cramp medicine In n i a hurry saying hIS his his- was brother was dangerously dangerously dan dan- sick McGeorge hastened to the cell with wit the medicine when John Biddle sprang through the opening of the cell and seizing the guard around the waist hurled him over the railing to th the distance of sixteen six six- st ne floor beneath a teen teen- been en feet I DRAWN PISTOLS ft THEY ATTACK GUARD Edward Biddle Biddie joined his brother imi immediately immediately im im- with drawn rev re revolvers re- re i mediately and both v vers hurried to the first floor where when they met Guard Reynolds and shot sho Im j There were but three men on duty nd the third was on one o of the upper t I i 4 anges He was ordered down at the th point of the revolvers and the three thre 1 guards were put in the dungeon 1 The keys were taken front from Keeper Keepe McGeary and the two desperate prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- had a clear field The only per per- pons ons who witnessed the escape were I Prisoners who could not interfere 01 or I IV Ve an an alarm The Biddies Biddler went to the drobe where the guards keep their theix and each put on a new suit the outside gates gate ey y then unlocked passed out into Ross street The Th ape pe PP was noi discovered the thed d Ight guards came on duty at 6 0 ck They were informed by prison pris pris- prison on where the night guards had beer been Pu p and they were soon released d fr from frog n the and sent to the p hospital I I 4 SA r r q AIDED THE TEE MURDERERS THE I i t den jn Peter K i. has auh auh au- au h h 9 zed id the publication of the allega- allega that hat his wife wiCe Is responsible for forel of the revolver and w the Biddies which enabled z el e escape ln r Infatuation for the handsome h desperado Edward Biddle it Is al alleged al- al Ke e has left her husband and her ler fo four ildren and It is supposed Is Isto r to to meet the e escaped convicts at a aT a T place agreed upon Ii I The Thesty of the matter is brief Mrs I off f was as the only person admitted f to o t iV 3 t jail since last Sunday Yester- Yester d a she visited the Biddies Biddles g the wardens warden's absence ast t evening she retired at 9 o'clock he he told her husband that she was to visit a sister at McDonald and nd that she would retire early so that it me e could get an early start Warden Varden Offett was about the jail until about il He retired to his room is separate separate- from Mrs portly before 1 I When he awoke this morning he asked for Mrs Off tt and was informed that she was absent Later when the details of the escape became known he telephoned tel phoned to McDonald and was informed inform d. d that Mrs 1 45 was not there MADE A CONFESSION r i. i OF HIS SUSPICIONS Warden immediately made a confession of his suspicions I The ruse of the BiddIes iddles was a clever one rand was carried out with great I success uc ss They sawed out the bars of i their cells John cutting out three in Ws Edward being the larger man J. J und It necessary to cut out fourA four A r. r Nothing suspicious was noticed in She he e actions of the tho two prisoners nor l when hen was anything wrong discovered the day guards went off duty yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day afternoon The murderers evidently evidently evidently evi evi- dently sawed the bars d during ring the night using what appears to to have been soap to deaden the noise and to reduce friction The escape is unparalleled as ss is Ui their record for crime throughout th the vicinity The police all through the country are sr for the Biddies SEARCH SEARCE IS MADE FOR WARDENS WARDEN'S WIPE WIFE District Attorney John C. C Haymaker had a conference with Warden at noon and the warden told him of his suspicions con concerning Mrs The warden has made Inquiries at the homes of all his wife's relatives and he has been unable to find any trace of her An investigation disclosed the fact th that t she had taken all of her best is also clothes The wardens warden's overcoat missing It is that the th Biddies took a train train train-at at the Fourth Avenue station of the Pan Handle railroad which is within a block of the jail and left for forthe forthe forthe the West Warden Is broken broken- hearted He is is completely unnerved and with difficulty could repress his tears It has been known for several weeks that Mrs was taking an interest in the inthe the the Biddies and it is said that s she se e frequently furnished them with dainties outside their usual prison pris pris- prison on on fare Care The C County Commissioners rs met this aft afternoon noon and offered a reward of for the recapture of the murderers A meeting of the prison board to investigate investigate investigate gate their es escape ape will be held this af f f. BOTH INJURED GUARDS r oa- oa 1 The two guards injured will probably recover r cover The he bullet bulle wound sustained stained s by Reynolds is not regarded as danger daiger- ous The physicians have been to ascertain as yet the full ext extent nt of I McGeary's wounds His head is badly contused but there are no signs that his skull was fractured by his sixteen- sixteen foot fall For several months preceding the murder daring burglaries were of almost nightly occurrence The police police po po- lice seemed powerless ss to prevent them and nervous citizens retired at night in fear and ancl trembling On On- the morning of April l last st Mrs was awakened by burglars burglars burglars bur bur- and called to her husband a cripple crip crip- pie who was sleeping in an adjoining room with one of the children STORY OF THE IRE CRIME OF T THE E ESCAPED MEN As she entered the door of his wife's room she was shot dead The burglars then fled fied A few hours later Detective Patrick Fitzgerald and two officers surprised sur- sur surprised surprised sur sur- the Biddle Piddle brothers at their home before they were on nfl on Fulton street but u n captured Fitzgerald was was' killed and Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Biddle Diddle who shot him w was 1 dangerously dangerously dangerously dan dan- wounded Walter Don Do Don n another another another an an- other bf f the gang and two two f nen Jessie Jessie Jessie Jes Jes- sie Bodine and Jennie were also arrested Dorman turned States State's evidence and the he two Biddies were convicted of Kha- Kha I ney's murder and sentenced to be hanged John on the of this month and Edward on the but three days before the date set for Johns John's execution they were until February and by Gov Stone so that their I cases could go before the pardon board at Its coming meeting Dorman Dorm n Is still stillI In jail awaiting sentence The women women I were released |