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Try it. oceupying cells there were recently wrought up to such a pitch by hearing the noise made by carpenters erecting the wooden gallows in the jaif yard that Warden Lewis hus ordered a steel The Case of Ruminski. which can be put together alMike Ruminski was one of the most noiselessly with the aid Of a fsw shrewdest prisoners ever placed in screws and a wrench. murderers' row. On the morning he was sentenced to death for strangling FLYING MACHINE. his wife, pouring kerosene over the to he fire the and house, body setting declared that the sheriff would never Wai.dswoith lean's Really Novel In. vertion. get a chance to hang him. The evidence produced against Ruminski at A remarkable contrivance of bamhis trial tended to show that he was a professional st rangier and robber. boo and wire on four little wheels, Several months before he killed his with a man sitting hunched up over wife be had strangled his own baby to a steering wheel in the front, coasted deaih, but tills was not known until down West Hill, Wandsworth, shortly the authorities made an investigation after sunrise. it was the working portion of Mr. A. following the death of his wife. V. Roes Hying machine, with which On account of the threat of the condemned man that he would cheat the he hopes to carry off a number of gallows, an extra close watch was kept prises that are still on offer to the first man to accomplish a flight iu a on him in his cell, a guard being stationed outside the door day and night steerable machine,. Mr. Roe was the winner of the secto prevent him from taking his own ond prize a: he trial of model aerolife. One night Kumliibki went to bed as planes at tie Alexandra palace last usual. The lightf outside bis cell door spring, when his model covered a shone directly on the cot, and the light of more than 100 feet. My lull size machine,'' he said the guard outside could see him quite other day, " is now all ready for a plainly. But Ruminski. while pretending to be asleep, reached down with flight, but the difficulty is to find a his right hand between the edge of his suitable place. 1 do not mean to beiron cot and the wall and untied one of gin by circling St. Paul's or anything the thin cord laces fastened across sensational like that. If I can cover a the framework of his cot and support- mile a few feet from the ground and ing the niHttress. Still working with swerve, turn, drop and rise as I want one hand, be twisted the short length to I shall be quite satisfied. machine Is built on "The of cord, tied it and slipped it over his head and around his neck. The handle the same lines as the model that won of a tin cup, which he managed to get at the Alexandra palace. It is on tho possession of, was passed through the superposed plane system, a small fore loop, and then Ruminski carefully and plane acting as steering rudder, with quietly proceeded to choke himself tto two large back planes. death. So cautiously did he kill him"From tip to tip the machine measself that the guard outside the door, ures 36 feet, and the fore and aft although keeping one eye on Ruminski measurement is 20 feet. Altogether all the time, imagined that the con- the plane surface is 80 square feet, demned man was sound asleep. and it will weigh, with myself on When Ruminski had choked himself board, 450 pounds. "It has been built almos entirely until he lost consciousness, his hand released the handle of the tin cup. Jt by myself, except for the engine, a power motor, and the may be supposed that the tin handle Jap would spin around a lew times and fly steering wheels. All the other metal from the loop and that the cord, being work, including the four little pneureleased, would enable Ruminski to matic wheels, I made in my own amabreathe again. But the crafty strangler teur way. Wheels, of course, are nechad anticipated that very thing and essary for carrying the aeroplane had made provision to guard against along the ground in starting an ascemt his plans being thwarted in that way. and in landing again. The handle of the tin cup had been "The propellers, which are will make about 1,600 revolustraightened out and t hen hooked at the end in such a way that the mo- tions to the minute, giving me a speed ment Ruminski's hand released it it of about 50 miles an hour. The drivcaught in the collar of his shirt and er's seat is forward, and will be Incanvas shelheld fast. Ruminski had been dead closed in a several hours when the guard attempt- ter. There are two brakes on the ed to arouse him next morning. back wheels, and by pressing his feet Then a few hours after the strang- - on an iron plate just under the seat Pittsburg, Pa. According to the brothers, Jack and Ed, escape from statement of the prisoners and their cells in murderers' row with the Kate Soffel, wife of guards, murderers' row, in the Al- assistance of M legheny county jail in this city is said to be haunted, and the fear of the supposed ghosts has so worked upon the nerves of the condemned prisoners that the ceils of the entire row have been vacated and the prisoners removed to another section of the jail. The ghost of W. A. Culp, who killed himself in his cell some time ago while awaiting trial for the murder of his brother, is held directly responsible for the orders issued by Warden Edward Lewis transferring the 14 men occupying cells in murderer's row. Culp's ghost was haunting them, they declared. "It" had come back, they said, visiting cell after cell along the tier set apart for murderers, rehearsing the murder of Culp's brother and omitting none of its ghastly details. This happened night after night following Culp's suicide, and always between 12 and 1 o'clock In the morning. Screams of terror from the fourth tier of cells on the south side of the old part of the jail, where murderer's row was situated, aroused the guards and all the prisoners, says the N. Y. World. Lights were turned on and a search made for the ghostly visitor, but of course "it" was never found. An hour or two always elapsed before the terrified prisoners could be calmed down and silence reigned once more throughout the big county jail. Prisoner's Ghost Visits Cell. Only one prisoner, a condemned murderer occupying the cell adjoining the one in which Culp committed suicide, a man who Is to be executed in October, saw the Culp ghost on the first night it came back. That was on the night following the one on which the suicide was committed. The condemned wretch, who had hen convicted of a most crime. cowardly Bcreamed for help and when the guards entered his cell a few moments later they found him cowering in a corner and shaking like a leaf. He had seen Culp, he said. Culp or Culp's ghost had come into his cell and after awakening him had started to rehearse the murder of his brother. "You have been dreaming, that's all." said one of the deputy wardens. "Don t you know that reassuringly. Culp is dead and burled and even if he alive it would be impossible for him to have been in your cell? Be- esides, there'are no such things as ghosts. You have been having a bad dream, so just lie down and go to sleep and don't be arousing the whole'1 jail like this in the middle of the night But the next night Culp's ghost came back again. At least, three condemned criminals confined in cells along murderer's row declared that they saw "it" distinctly. When examined by the warden they all gave the same description of the ghost, the direction from v. liieb it came, and its antics in front of cells along murder era' row. This went on for several nights, al though extra guards were placed along tho fourth tier. The guards then, selves declared that they saw nothing, but this afforded little satisfaction to the prisoners, who were either too frightened to sleep or who were dis nextby the screams of tin door neighbors. Other Ghost Scares. Culp's ghost Is not the only one said to be responsible for the haunting of the Allegheny county Jail. For foari the murderers' row there has ban grudually accumulating the reputation of being haunted. Did not Mike Rumlnbki, the profot slonal strangler, strangle bimselt to death in his cell In a most ingenious manner shortly before the date set for his execution, and did not he come hack? That was d.iring the time of Warden .John McAleese. And did not the notorious Kiddle' tin-be- - Warden Peter Soffel, only to be run down and shot to death near Butler, Pa., 48 hours later, and did not they come back? That was during the time of Warden Soffel. And did not Hill and Douglass and many another poor wretch who went to death from murderers' row by the gallows route come back? There are many who stoutly main tain that they did, and that they haunted their old cells and terrified their occupants for many nights. Another mysteiious happening that contributed to the spooky reputation of murderers' row was not explained away until It had been going on for weeks. At nine o'clock eery night it has been customary to switch the electric lights from one dynamo to another. This necessitated the changing of a belt and occupied from five to ten seconds. During that time the entire ja.M-win total darkness, except for a few isolated gas jets in the front office, at the gate and in the main corridor. An Unearthly Shriek Was Heard. One night several years ago just before the lights had gone out as usual an unearthly shriek pierced the inky blackness of the big jail from somewhere in the neighborhood of murderers' row. It was a long, moaning kind of shriek, such as no mortal could make, and it seemed to sweep and circle down the main corridor before dying away. Everybody who heard it deputy wardens, guards and prisoners alike felt the marrow freezing in his bones. An invesiigation was made immediately the lights had been turned on again, but no solution to the mystery was found that night. The prisoners were questioned, and, as might have been expected, all denied knowing anything about it. Men in' cells on the fourth tier thought the noise, came from somewhere on the ground floor. Those on the ground floor thought it came from the roof. Next night when the lights were switched off at nine o'clock the same unearthly scream resounded through the building, and once more the resultant investigation came to naught. Warden Lewis was puzzled and he erralned to trace the noise to its n the third night he BKO"rce 80 eretlF stationed guards in empty cells ami alonS corridors, with instructions to make cai'eful note of the direction from wnence the yell came if it should be repeated. The yell was reneaterl without fail as soon as the jail was in darkness, but ths. worden's plan failed, for the guards had totally different id. as of where the sound came four-blade- cigar-shape- d as j e rvWate-"P" P - III 1 H jSalSzrii i' I "TIL? from. By the time the uncanny yell had been heard for five nights in succession, with the mystery of its source as j deep as ever, many of the most su-- I perstitious prisoners were on the verge of nervous prostration. Nobody could ever tell them after that that the jail was not haunted. The warden was almost at his wits' end, but he tried one more scheme. began to tiansfer the prisoners, a few at a time, from cell to cell, and guards ""' Instructed to watch each batch "f men very closely. In this way the noise was finally traced to a practical Joker among the pris- oners, who produced the diabolical yell with the aid of a hair comb and a newspaper. A piece of paper was foi led across the comb and held as a sHihl iece at the si. a'l end of a megaphone made by rolling the newspaper up Into a cone. Everybody know what a fearful noise can be made Impressing the Hps against a comb and blowing hard. With t!,e megai hone added the noise Wi greatly magnified, and it made a no calculated to gjve anybody "cold chills in the pitchy darkness of a big prl o With the detection of the culprit paper-COV-er- ' ler's body had been removed to the morgue it disappeared most mysteriously and that night prisoners in murderers' row declared that Ihey saw Ruminski's ghost walking along and making ghastly laces at the occupants of the cells. Several months later the murderer's body was found in a stable on Carson street. South side, and buried In potter's Held. The cars and fingers had been removed, presumably to be kept as souvenirs. The Biddle Brothers. Biddle brothers did not die two The in murderers' row, but other prisoners routined there have often declared that Ihey saw their ghosts on many ulgl-lsince ths two young despora does broke Jail and fled with the warden's wife, only to he aw down and killed a few hours later. The senna tionnl CMS of the Middle brothers Is too well known and has been drama tlMd loo much to need recalling to t lie memory of readers. It was merely one of many ens's whlrh have served to give the Alleghenj county jail a k., re,'itat'or and to make the old murderers' row n.i Ipagdr l uuitatdo. he nerves of condemned prisoners I the driver can check the way of the machine on the ground as quickly as a motor car can be stopped. "I have been experimenting with a prlng drive, hut I have come to the conclusion that a clutch drive Is better." Dally News. Origin of Sedan Chair. Perhaps some expert in the Siamese language will tell us what Is Its word for "sedan chair." When the King of Slam's ministers, protesting against his majesty's favor toward motoring, recently that "the royal se-- i dan" chair was always at his disposal It is improbable that Ihey used a word rtmlnl cent of the French town. fO ii is from the scene of Napoleon Ill's collapse that tho sedan chair takes Its name and perhaps remote posterity will suppose that It had some connection with that event I tut Sedan first produced these conveyances centuries aifo, and they were seen In England in 15s!. One used by lames I.'r Buckingham provoked great popular outcry against the employment of men as beasts of burden. Sir S. Buncombe Is credited with having Introduced them to London In Ifi;i4. Hiiiv-'esle- |