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Show the jau by two officers, but before the trip to bus prison cell was ended he succeeded In dirking the attention of the StanT to another part of the car, and with the tm an hour flung himself from the car through the window and made good his - After this exploit he drifted about and finally reached New Orleans. where h.w mediately robbed tailor shop and was arrested. He piT the name of Baldwin to the police, po-lice, but they soon recognized him as the famous Lilly. After his conviction, convic-tion, a;, before his sentence, he made two almost successful attempts at-tempts to escape by filing the bars -'ohx lillt. of his prison, and was only foiled by the incessant in-cessant watchfulness of his keepers. When taken Into court to receive his sentence Lilly maintained an insolent and defiant demeanor and was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary at hard labor. Ihea it was that he launched forth his invective, in-vective, defied the court and authorities and swore that no bars of theirs were strong enough to hold him. He was safely safe-ly landed in the penitentiary and the officials offi-cials there notified fully of his desperate character and his boasts of ability to escape. es-cape. Some few nights ago it became necessary to transfer a batch of the prisoners confined con-fined in the penitentiary at Baton Rouge to the Nita crevasse. Lilly was among the number, and to make assurance doubly sure in bis case he was handcuffed to Pierre Beatin, another desperate burglar. By some unknown means, however, Lilly bad contrived to secure a file, and while sitting under the eyes of his guard deliberately de-liberately filed the manacles in two. Then in full sight of his keepers he stood up and cooly dived overboard in mid stream. The boat was stopped almost immediately, immediate-ly, but no trace of the daring Lilly could be found, although a protracted search was made. It is believed that he was drowned, but drowned or alive he made good his boastful threat that he would escape. es-cape. Beatin was caught before he could follow Lilly's example. HE CARRiED OUT HIS THREAT. . i 8ow Desperau John Lilly Ended His ; Convict Life. tib.my, aUas J. S. Baldwin, a 10 , aad desperate burglar, who was not Ti'SO arrested in New Orleans, con- ?nr8ianr and sentenced to eight- len t 8 in tU8 penitentiary, has long j ottf own 111 ""oy s3 88 dare deTl1 worst kind, and about five years 3" ""estad in Arkansas for theft and geed to the penitentiary. i taken on tha train an rout to I i - i . |