Show ESCAPED CONVICTS about a week since edward ray and james talbot untied united states convict condic condemned at the ibe late session of the united states court in this city and aind Benten sentenced ced the former to one in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of six hundred dollars and ana costs costa taxed at one hundred and hitty fifty dollars and to remain in prison after i tb thi expiration dathe sentence until the fine and gosts costs costs costa should ie be paid and the latter for perjury iry to ninety days imprisonment and to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs of Q I 1 suit escaped from the penitentiary between two days since which we believe no trace of them hem t hasteen has bas been discovered col rockwood the warden inform informs sus sug ua that ray who had bad a ball and chain attached to him wei wel weighing 0 hin forty four pounds managed to 0 o seve sever r the rive rivet t fastening the shackle to the ankle and then sawed off the iron gate over I 1 the ventilator in the door of his bis cell enabling I 1 hini hinr ito 0 reach he ite lock fasted fastening ing the bar of the thedoor door which he unlocked by means meang of a false key froin from whence or from whom horn obtained i the tite and I 1 grate were severed severi ed by means of a knife aiso aso abo m mysteriously ob i bained tal ned lytt lydi probably from his fellow prisoner talbot who wilo bad had greater tor for forgetting getting waitr and might have passed them into the cell through the grates grate undiscovered while passes pas slig in or out of hla hia awn own 11 cell ll after getting gettin out bibis of his own ray unlocked talbots Tal bots cell cil and let him out when the two broke a I 1 lock leek securing the door of another that bad no occupant into which they entered and succeeded in making a passage through the wali will which nafe name been operated upon and fractured by dp sometime before of which athey they we re e evidently evi denty aware having b thus gained the inner irner court of tha the friton they boon goon found the means to enal enat c e to t jr to reach the top of the wd will 1 from which 11 ich atley let them behls do dovin n ly a rope iian rian red ed conri from a bir bla ket ilet there viotta to the tile 9 sittings sit ittin 1 I g of t the ile territorial ald and adl aft d federal couris cown in the chii judicial D strict but few err era cefi v pi 1 1 in the benit biary nd a t guir i 1 ali all a ti t i the cor acts were lucked up in the r rax t ive celd cesis bau baw been deemed aa watchmen have not been constantly on duty uty in the i right for a long time after the tha incarceration of th the rf ri cen certia ly covi pi i he 1 fi 1 ral rai il cou cout colt I 1 fir cr ficq tp 1 a tip lip g r bf united states the prison was considered less les t safe kult tuft but as the t have never made any provisions for tor tle tbt security of its ita prisoners I 1 in th s ter ten iora ar ay d lave 1 ave lid uin lle ile lein ulso se in n lie je fray frayn ng he tie a vu burred ered in keeping the then did ribe na consider con side it fobe tobe to be h his bis duty to employ watchmen and pay thena theca him himself when worn there thera thery wass little prospect prospector of the money ii being t i ng refunded by the government and the territory not sot ja 1 0 t eo so long aa Ps cursed with an executive iho who rho will not sot approve e any any appropriation bill passed by the legislative As assembly every precaution necessary with the exception of a night guard was taken then to secure the prisoners but unluckily those two by superior strategy and exertion got out and are probably on their way to the northern mines ray has the reputation of being an adept in villainy and has as reported escaped I 1 from prison more than once in california Calif pali fornia orpia before following the army here last fall fau incarceration ig is not the proper punishment for such characters and unquestionably the statute making such provision will win at some future time be amended |