Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-12 | Page 11 | Sing Sing Excited by a 'Near' Escape

SING ISING SING SE EXCITED BY A IN NEAR EAR ESCAPE Fil Film m Play Stopped but Prowler Returns OSSINING ING Dec 11 While While the prisoners were watching a motion picture l show in Sing Sing prison last I Inight night a guard saw a prisoner walking walking walking walk walk- ing through the yard jard The prisoner I saw aw that he was detected and ran toward the cell block where he dis dis- dis- dis appeared Prisoners are not allowed In the prison yard at night and when one is caught ere iere it is taken for granted that he is trying to escape The guard immediately gave the tile alarm and the machine guns were kept swinging at the walls ready to senda send senda a burst of at bullets in any direction where a hand or head appeared A I quick search of the yard and the corridors corridors corridors cor cor- cor- cor of ot the tho building was then made without discovering the missing manThe man The film mm film play was stopped and the prisoners sent back to their cells ceIls for a count Every man was present It then appeared that one man manI should not have been present This I was Jim Taylor who was working overtime in the printing room for the Mutual Welfare league Ho He had not received permission to leave this room and by elimination he was held to be bethe bethe bethe the man who had been seen in the prison yard rard ard According to the prison officials Taj Taylor lor must have escaped from the main building which includes the cell ceIl cellblock cellblock block printing motion picture place and other hall in some way still undiscovered undiscovered un un- un- un discovered When he saw that the I eye of a guard had made him he must have reentered the main building building build build- ling ing by his secret route He could then have hidden somewhere until the return of prisoners to the cell block where he was able to rejoin their irregular ranks without being detected detect detect- ed Taylor would not discuss the matter and held that it was a closed incident it was said at Sing Sing