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After Drady and Naughton had been flhut a week or t ....o,
some of their
acquaintances got permission to Bend thel!l in peckegea of eveeteent.s, fruit, etc .
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Th1e continued for 8 r ea s onable time vithout arousing suspicion . On one occasion
a very parti cular friend of JIIe.ughton drove up to the prison and ha nded
t he varden
a l ar ge cake for him , ....h1ch be (Naughton) duly received , bbe officer never dr-eaa-.
log that i t
contained B.' eet. of tools by the nid of ....hich the t wo prisoners ver-e t o
effect their e scape.
These too18 tbl3Y carefully oonceeIed, us1ne them vhe neve z- an opporttmity
prosented i t self, t o cut through the vindov bar-e end f ree t hemse l ves onc e more .
Watching their opportuni ty one fog{''y night , vhen the sentinel, vhc passed up and
dovn 1n f ront of the buildin/!:, had reached the f s r t heat-a·...ay point froo the cell
1n whic h they ver e confined ,
they r-emoved the bare and Brady climbed out, dropped
to t he ground and made off_Naughton ......Lted till the maD on guard paced his
round, then be , too, attempted to get ll\1nYJ but oving t o scae el1gbt noise caused
by his foot comi ng in contact \li t h one of t he Loosened ba r-s , t he sen tinel t urned
""" eharply, c au ~ht sight of tho fugitive and fired ; v cunddng hl.'u- seve;elJ"" :til the";;;'·
ritht Leg , He \Ja9 r e ca pt ured and taken back to pr-Leon , vber -e he r -eae dned till
Brady, on effectlne his eecepe,
scrambled, 8S best he could in tbedark, dcvn
over the Hill to the wnte1"front, divertod himrtelf of hie boot s, noil'\~ly .....eded in,
and ewam acr-ose the Narro....B.to the. South Side . Here he reeved t ill daylight. "hen
h6 made hf s way to Blackhead , and told h1~ tltory to the peop le of the f i rst bouse
he ent.er-ed , The y shaved off h1A vht eke r-e and moustache , cut h1~ bair, gave h1Jn n
fiRhing nuit , boot-s and all, and did eVArythin~ they coul d t o conceal hiA identity.
Nobody "gave him away" J and he eet.t.Led dovn , rMrried, and 50!I1e of his deacendant.s