Show escape of prisoners fiebe flye feve five of the convicts COL confined fined inid in tbt pe neiten n idary wry to wit nit charles manh manhard ard truelove Mirk manhard hard alfred iligo IIi ins george IL II angle and william echols echol effected their escape on the i ight of the ull uit b r knocking the thed doors of their cells or prison dign rooms with keys they bad had contrived IvIed to make out of zinc used in the manufacture S some implements or machinery in the workshop world shops they purloined for lne ine pu purpose pose after unlocking some four or fore fire afe doors dhori and getting out into the ya d they 4 sc scaled gln gin the wall by means of ropes made out jot dot their blankets and put off unobserved by the ahe guard if any was on duty at the time which ilicich is somewhat lemat cal fr f r it is we e 1 ikno l known v n that the prison is not a paying stitt an and only one or two men are employed to watch the concern which the I 1 pi riso of course well knew i it is under sto d that the other ariso prisoners ners of bi me elk eik ciba ht 0 or ten ton in number were co cognizant 0 cf the movements of their fellows but refused reft refi sed bed to escape with them being of the op opinion i nion no doubt that hat they were safer within Z the walls cf the per pei iten tiar y than they would be else chere v here and that the chance of making good tho tarr i r e escape cape by fey fleeing from the state af er gating out of the prison were not favorable as some bome of 0 those who got cut out probably b bt name come convinced for three of them the two Blaniar Man hards ds and angle returned after after aften an abs abbs nee of two days and gaye themselves up to flie file be TT lV arden I 1 iba ns na and eckols have it is 13 be believed llred gone south where it reports be true they have s me friends or sympathy zera who may inay aid them in getting gelling out of the stats state either east eash or west ever may be the mo roost st p acetic i ble blo and safe the wes ern or southern route rote wi adil 1 most kost il clybe preferred to the eastern by such fellows this spring as there are aid vill viii ho be too many of the mountain boys a oi g the road between here and lara mie ale ebs lbs ib s season to make it a popular thoroughfare for thieves wheler vahe ler the warden col rockwood was blameworthy or not for the escape we do not rot klow biow our opinion is is from the he instances so far as understood that he was not the penitentiary with its app rt minces is but a sorry 1 conc concern ein at best and not at a all ali 11 bul bui ediab tabe e for the purpose for which it was buila rd instead of its being calculated for the reformation a and ani nd punishment t if f offenders such buch is the theena theeda ma ure of the tho institution and is s history that it is no terror to evil doers and teries tenis rather to encourage crime crima than jlian to prevent its Us commission most alost of the p isomers who have been incarcerated there within the last lix year excepting those vt who pho ho have been discharged by feild foldal i al judges on habbas llave escaped and nothing hab has tended BO be much to keep those who have been sent there iby aly by the operations of the statutes statute within the wast ast year fron fram putting out as the fear they have laye of the tha summary aven aver avengement gement gemeni that they uey willbe will vill be meted out to them then should they be found unprotected by the law by 1 I bome some of those brorn from whom they have sti stien len ien t and for which no pecuniary recompense has arbeen ever er been made there are unquestionably those and they are am dot not f few evv in number who terlly verily believe that there is a more more salutatory salu way of punishing thieves thieve and nid rid dirig the co of sic h pests han than ban to 0 o imprison thain in a 0 penitentiary however and sae it may bs be |