Show V y I 1 LEB AND zebe 2 0 I 1 FROM BING SING lka jauer Is ahir L celt and od lbook Ty tydd bead Pd an tha th iti or biank irb tt 10 kimt 4 deack zol 1 I 1 lowett wa their development bare have just coins to light which explain low how two of th the boldest and coolest criminal criminals that over escaped from sine sing sing prison but root their death la in 0 novel and in 11 1 manner fianner just aa a they bad had the most difficult part of their task it will be remembered by inan tint thit the middle of hay MAY 1893 asher aea u found in th the hudson off croton point the bodies L of two convicts frank W nathl and thonas a who had escaped from sing hin king I 1 about bout aji jo month previous aach nian had a bullet hole in lili tits head bead and this I 1 Is the point which lent to the casi in an air of profound pro fourd mystery many th arles were advanced alra nied at the time rela live to bow how the men might have cott coto iff their death but no one ever step tep ped forward to decole dl cole te any knowledge of 0 the affair fair until capt Nf michael Ichael kelley of a brick which piled plied the studson at the time i of the tragedy now volunteers a poal pool tire solution of the mystery the fact facts of the escape flight and subs subsequent quent death of rochl and pallister Pal llster r ai as leaned gleaned from captain kelley matt late james 8 S hearne and keeper john y 0 keefe of sing slug prison conati tute a tale title of thrilling and nary interest doth both of lio he tf IL I 1 I 1 icv 4 I 1 f 0 1 A r t r 1 av CAPT MICHAEL KELLEY bad had been found guilty of at tourner and zero were awaiting execution in the elec trie chair VaIl later wai was not at only is i very powerful and athletic thug but a man mart of tome some intelligence possessed of many friends and anti considerable political influence lie as the brain brains of the subsequent plot to escape the tb night ot of april 20 1893 1993 was w choren by the murderer murderers to make their desperate sperato de attempt during the day roehl pretended to bi kick alck and at night be he asked keeper james N hulea to warm some milk for him thi this the keeper did in a shallow pan it was too big to go to through the alcile in the cage so ne ii unlocked the door c it I 1 roehl a s cell to 0 o hand it to him As he did ao no the prisoner dashed a handful of ot pepper and lime into tutu hie his eye eyes ani and grip grappled with him hoehl roehl had scratched the mortar from between the bricks of the wall and the pepper be he had saved from his food llulu struggled fiercely but hoehl roehl balked backed him up against the hars jar of Pall PaIl leter later i a celt cell the latter grabbing him and hold ing him until roehl secured his key keys P and revolver 1 then he freed frd pallia pallis ler ter and together aby locked the keep er eran ja Palli pallister ater a ceil kee keeper pc r murphy was then due and they lay jay in wait wall for him the moment he passed the door they overpower til him took big hi key keys and revolver and locked him in ip roehl a cell the pal pat climbed to the roof root and tried to break their war t through brough one corne come after waiting wasting halt an hour on this they thought of the this they broke with ease climbed out on the roof root and dropped to the ground plans for their action after leaving tho prison tidd haid all been completed b frienda friends outside across the river from train sing sing some 1 ll 11 miles back train horii the shore share are the ramapo mountains am arte ot of which arc are an cited hardly explored wilderness in one of the linel 1 nelleen lest regions of at these mountains the friends of Pall Pail leter later had fitted up a tave with all the need necca titles tiles and many of the luxuries of life lite there were comfortable berts beds a small j cook stoe all the cooking I 1 at utensils emills and hundred hundreds of dollars worth I 1 at ofa food supplies complete arrange menta bad had ben been ronile lor for 1 a the prisoners to this retreat and ti sk the same time for or setting the attl r tiles on the wrong track now ow it so happened that on the night which they had bad chosen for their escape the w worst storm of many year years occurred 0 no mall small cratt craft live on the son that night to some extent the I 1 storm favored the criminals plan i i but iq fix the end as an will be ceen seen prova dia did f astraus to them at last list pallister Pal PaIl llster later and I 1 I 1 roehl stood food on the we sing bing shore I 1 of the bludson they found the boat 1 that was waiting for them they be gan their voyage pallister Pal llster ho was wa a 51 skilled killed oarsman rowed the boat A terrific southeast gale lashed the wa or into foaming aames aves and the rain rein fell in sheets the waves rose three feet high the men had not gone a hundred yade yi ids before they that they could never cross the riser in that storm their little shell of a boat was tilling ailing with water ater and they bad had not even yet felt the full force of the storm now sow jut just ahead of them lato schooner hooner ec chere were three mea men capt cichar I kelley mate james S kearnes and ad lum osborne the two enact wiping ping murderers decided in an instant that th the 0 only bhanot of life lite and safety was to board the booner and seize her they climbed aboard by the anchor chain challi to osborne who was on watch I 1 the they 11 said they v re friends of at the rap tain gain and he be not their attire in the darkness let them pass while kelley and keirnes kearnes were talk ings strange nan man suddenly ud denly jumpa down the companionway closely followed by br another the foremost intruder evidently erIde nUy did not see kearnes in the allado shadowy wy background burnly entering the light d cabin cabla L from rom clu inky darkness he be leveled his F revolver a sing sing keeper keepers a verat ver yer at captain kelley kelleys bead and boly eald said throw up your handal were from tb abe prison mid d re galac to take command of tie the those wrt wet big hi 1 alle be WM was speaking he arn rats unita drew a pl via tol tot and ti I 1 at the lb speakers bead th the aim wu waa true for the convict dropped to the noor floor dead thil this occupied ahr or four mccond but flat time was a but u relent to allow tallow captain killer to draw lite 1119 pistol the second cand murderer pirate bounded into the tb cabin ai as soon aa as hta big leader dropped lie ile too bad bed a revolver but he had no chance to uie use it captain kelley killer put a bullet in him a ai 8 iron icon am he showed himself at the toot ft 00 0 the stairs ire th the captain and mate both the bodies overboard and the angry of the hudson completed the work although the two roen men had done nothing but defend their live lives and their property they felt more ur or less le guilty aad land they bad no desire to have the matter publicly ventilated |