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Show CONVICT HAD CLEVER PLAN TO ESCAPE SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. A novel aUenipt at escapo from tho military mili-tary prison has just been reported at Alcatraz, a small ialaud in San Pran-cisco Pran-cisco bay. The island is devoicd entirely to the incarceration of army convict?', and as lifo is irksome for the members of the guard, occasional dances are given, to which the belles of cities bordering on the bay arc invited. Tuesday night one of theso affairs was in progress when the alarm was sounded, indicating that a prisoner was missing. Deserting l.lietr fair purtners. the guards searched tliu prison buildings and the rocky shores of the island for an hour .before they located the fugitive. fugi-tive. Ho was discovered hidden in a locker, dressed from head to foot in women's garments. The toilet was complete, com-plete, even to a largo hat of tho latest style. The prisoner, Henry Gallagher, who is serving two and a half years for desertion de-sertion from the coast artillery at Fort Barry, had been noticed sitting among the "wall flowers' ' in a secluded corner earlier in the evening, How Gallagher obtained his feminine apparel is a mystery to the authorities. It is supposed that his plan of escape included a quiet evening in the ballroom ball-room and a trip lo liberty on ono of the launches that were to carry the women back to the city. |