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Show -A Daring "Record Ad-dcnturcs of Scrjcam Way In Prisons of Vn tied Slaics A rmy. Tough Soldiers Whom It XOoa "Dangerous -to Guard A "Desperate "Des-perate Attempt at Escape. FerKCiiit Martin Way, supervisor ol Castle Williams tin1 inllltnry prisma ol tliu department of the cnst, I'liltfC States army, Is probably the besl known i'IiIInIiM mini In Hie entile trg ulnr CHlnbllsliiuciit, hmjk the New York Times. Serjeant Way enjoys tin nihil-tloniil nihil-tloniil reputation of bring one of tlio soldiers most highly nppicviiitiil by Ills superior. However. It Is Way's remarkable re-markable ciiit;or lis n prison ollleer up on which bis elilcf elnhn to fume restH It was ho who e-eorteil ("c Captain Ohrrlln M. Curler to itiul from CiiHtK WllllimiH when that ollleer wan oh trial .O . V - J OKB OF THE riUBOKElta HNATCIIED HIS OU in the Federal building In New York, and his experiences with tiotrtl prisoners prison-ers would fill volumes. The other dny, however, after repented re-pented requests he consented to talk a little about himself. He Instated, however, how-ever, that whatever he hud done that might be deserving of praise should be credited In practically every case to Boinc other holdler more deserving, us he put It, than hlmelf. "In 187P." wild Sergeant Way, "I enlisted en-listed in Company II of the fmunus Ninth Infantry at Oniahn, Neb, and for the live years that followed part Id paled In the engagements with thc Indians, In which Unit oi-gnutzntlou bore nn Important port In "Wyoming. Montana and In the nortliuc.t generally. general-ly. Those were exciting l mil In nil uiy career there Is nothing I am so proud of as the service I .saw us a member of the command that won an International fame as the first to scale the walls of Peking In the Itoxcr trou bles In China. "In ISM in) enlistment expired, nnd It was then that my career in prlsou work begun. I got my dlschargo papers pa-pers at Fort 1). A. IttiHicll and Immediately Imme-diately re-enlisted, this time In the prison guard at Tort Leavenworth, Knn. I remained there until 18(H), when the prison was turned over to tho civil authorities, when I was transferred transfer-red to the Twenty sixth Infantry In time to take pnrt in the campaign In Cuba and Inter In the Philippines. "To revert to my prison work, however, how-ever, I will have to go back to I'ort Ixaveuworth, nnd as you don't enre to hear anything about the good fellows who were Imprisoned there I will rnck ray memory and try to tell you something some-thing about the bud characters that wo hud to deal with. In the Orst place, I will sny that during the twelve and a half years I was at Leavenworth 1 never knew a prisoner to escape with out a sentinel being disabled. One of the lirst cases that occurred during my experience there was the escape of three notorious characters. They were guarded by a single soldier. One of tho prisoners asked for n drink of water, wa-ter, and the gunrtl foolishly, being a kind hearted fellow, held up tho bucket buck-et for him to drink. Then one of the prisoners snatched his gun and felled him to tliu ground with a terrific blow on the head that almost fractured his tkull, An hour Inter wo found tho poor fellow unconscious on thu ground where ho lind fallen. Tlo prisoners havo nover been heard of since. "On another occasion three prlsoueru were storing potatoes In a cellar. Agahl there wus a single guard on duty. One of tho men managed to steal upon him from behind. Tho next moment tho soldier wns on the ground with n tcrri-blo tcrri-blo wound In his bead. His almost lifeless life-less body wns thrown Into tho cellar on top of the potatoes, A gng wns placed In his mouth, a purtlng lick was given to blm with the big club that had felled him, his keys were stolen, the door locked, and then the prisoners went Mieir way In the Mrmlou of the ttrto-vt -M" ! . ! .1. - then desolate country to tho west of us Later the guard was found and after many months of snfTciliig finally recove-i'l, but he wns newr the samo man again. Only one of the prisoners wns eer leciipltued. "The most notorious and ilopernto yum who was cut Incut cer.iteil In a po eminent prison was nanied Hurtou, nnd he was known as No. I'JU. Ho wus mixed up in all kinds of daring escapes, he and his partner nt one time overcoming no less limn lle guiuds. "Hurtou on the occasion when he and his pal ovetcnnic the the guards wns working oil a hill near leaven-worth. leaven-worth. A sergeant was In charge f the guards. Hurtou was standing near when a piece of paper diopped out of the sergeant's hand. The sergeant reached down to pick up the paper. The ni'il moment he was senseless on the ground, and Hurtou hud his gun. At the same tlmo the other soldier knocked another guard down and grabbed his gun. A few shots were llred, but they went wide of the mark, and the men got away. They made their way Into Missouri, wheio they robbed several postolllces and Innumerable Innu-merable stores and with the loot managed man-aged to gel as far west us Pueb'lo, Colo. There we caught them. "Hoth were brought back to Leavenworth Leaven-worth and wcutcuicd to many extra years at hard labor. Despite the vigilant vigi-lant guard kept over them, however, they weie inKcd up In Innumerable attempts at-tempts to get away, and each time some poor soldier went down and out. After I was gone Hurtou In some wa) got out of prison legall)." Sergeant, are )ou going to lethe when your present enlistment e- plresV" wns the Iat question asked the famous old soldier. "No, 1 guess not," he answered, with n smile. "I sorter halfway Imagine I nm going to die In harness." |