The Jailbreak of 'Philadelphia Kid'

Warden, alias Jack Ross, known as the 'Philadelphia Kid,' made his escape from the county jail yesterday and enjoyed a full hour of liberty before he was shot by Deputy Warden and recaptured. Warden seized his opportunity and picked the lock of the front door with a bent railway nail while the acting jailer was absent. He crept out of the jail, up the stairway, through the outside gate which had been carelessly left open. He passed around the outside of the jail fence to the rear and then started up the side hill between Third and Fourth Avenues. A little girl was the only person who saw Warden leave the jail yard and she at once gave the alarm. A posse of officers soon started in pursuit and confined the escape to the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth and James and Columbia streets. After half an hour's search, Warden was dragged from underneath Hamilton's boarding house, where he had stowed himself away. He was taken back to the jail, cursing his luck at every step.