Almost Had Their liberty.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 264, 16 May 1888, Page 6

Almost Had Their liberty.

I f A\ almost; .successful attempt, on the 1 pait of throe ptisoncrs to bioak fvoin , was discovered jukl frustrated r the other day by Warden Baker, s of the ICs^cv County Gaol, at New- ' ai k. Vox home weeks past. William Smit.h, !. a nokniou- burglar, who broke liom tiie . penitentiary at (Jaldwell, when Coinict Williams wa-. shut by a keeper, has been confined in the j^iiol. Wmd.cn Baker, aware that he had an unusually adroit and desperate man to deal with, has guarded 1 Smith with especial eaie. Last Sunday Smith was seen to climb to the fourth eon idoi ot the j^aol at a time when he 1 thought himself uuobf-encd, and the ' olhcials noticed that he disappeared in a 1 cell occupied by William Maloy and Cuoiyu W;dtet-, chained with I'uceny. Con\ineed that *-omo conspiracy wih bem<; ; hatched, (he keopei-> ledoubled their \i<_;ilau(v. Vcsteiday moininjx Maloy and Walti is wi'io taken to Com t lor ti ial, ; and a o\ tiiuir cull <luiin<; tdeir ; absi nee icsultod in some "taitlin^ dis1 eo\eiie-. 'L*he\ h.id wienehed horn the ' wall an iion bai on which a sliolt had " ie-ted,and with it had du;4 a l»ole in the ; w all o\u head of consulcia!)le dimensions. The\ had KMno\eil the lath and jilastei and some hi icks, and had cut a holt iwoUet om w.i\ b', huu teen inche^ another tin ou^h an iion plate lh.it lay beyond To conceal then uoik Ihe^ had plasteied ,i pice« ot N paper o\ei the <i[ieituie with soap. It ; would ha\e been easy woik toi them to 1 ha\c (nl.uucd the hole, and when thai had been done! he> w onlil h.i\ c -ucm ed cut i.uiclj to t h\' open -paet^ bet ween the (oi i idol and tin <_;aol loot 'The displacement ot a lew vlatt> shingles in ihi 1 too! would ha\e j^nen then, tlitii bbeils Smiths- cell w,>s x mhrd, bnl nothing was loiind m it. ' The Iwo men who had been taken to the Com l iloiiM' loi dial w( ie examined In Malta's pocket wa- humd a knife that had been nicked to mmnc the pin iio-e of a -aw. Walk)-, at In- tiiil, was (onweted ot l.neun. Maloy wa- (on\icted, but with \\ altu) s he w.'s -cut back to to aw ail tual lor attempted escape.--' ? New Ti lbune '