The Archive · 1905

An Escape from the American Gaol

Another daring escape was rffected frou the Amerienn Covsular gaol in the early' hours of on Wednesday morning. Leupold Rosthorn, who was undergoing " sentence of eight months, was incarcerater in the tame cell as A. Yattingly, who was being Kept antu a ship could be found for hi MPheir cell was at the extreme end of the gallery of wh.ch the prison is formed. A Prisoner confined in this very cell escaped Shout two yearsago by makings hole in the wall and climbing out over the roof of*a shed beneath. The hole made on this; occasion was filled in with bricks and ter and it was to this part of the Zell that Rosthorn and Yattingly directed their attention, What tools, if any, they had is not known, but they managed somehow to remove the bricks and plaster] and to effect their escape without any The escape was not discovered in the morning. So quietly did the prisoners work that the women lodged in the next cell did not beata sound and nothing of the matter until the eneape had been discovered On Wednesday afternoon Reilly' and another prisoner] were eet to work to repair the hole. peward of $95 (Mex,) has been offered for! the re-arrest of exch of the ramaways.'

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