Broke Jail

öometirae during Sunday night last three prisoners escaped from the jail in thi8 city. At what hour thoir exit was made is not known but it is supposed to have been in time to board the Atlantic Express which goes east at 2:05 A. ir. Three persona only were confined ;here, viz : The medical student Arthur S. Delf, recently bound over to the Circuit Court for trial, on the charge of ,he larceny of specimens from the mueum, and who in default of bail was committed to jail ; Charles Emerson, aged 23, who had been bound over for rial on charge of threatening to kill a esident of Chelsea, and Frank Wentworth, who was serving a sixty day's entence for being drunk and disorder7- Prior to locking up on Sunday night Emerson removed the pin by which the bolt which looked the door of his oell was secured. A carofnl insnontinn would be required to notice the absence of the pin. Emerging from his own it was a matter of short trouble to free the remaining prisoners from their cells. rogether in the corridors of the jail, the trio neit had to penétrate the outside wfill. Somebody furnished them with i bit and brace, with which they bored ïoles close to each other, and with a bar of iron heated in the stove, burned the conuecting pieces. The two or three rows of brick outside of the plank were easily torn away and an opening large enough to adtnit the passage of a man thus completed. The ease with which these persous esoaped will bring to the notioe of our oounty legislatura or the committee on COUntV buildinfi-s rnnrwontiiio tho. the necessity of dolng something to make the escape of prisouers less easy.-In its present condition, there is little or no securitysave ia the cells.and these have been ascertained to be insuffioient. A prisoner, expert iu burgUrizing, and daring in execution, would regard an escape from our jail in its present conriition a trivial matter. weniwortn 8 time was nearly out. Einerson'8 bondsman would have ppeared the next day and effecte'í a release. Delf has evideDtly intended to effect his escape if possible, ever since his incarceration. Two days after he was confined he sent to a friend a noto containing a plan of the ja.il and askitig him to "go to the gunsmith's or hard ware store and get a couple of saws likp they use to out off gun barrels, and bring them around at night and leave them uu the window," and saying " must see you again privately." Sheriff Case offers $2ö reward for tbe arrest of either Dolf or Emerson. Dispatches were gromptly forwarded to prominent points in this vicinity.and photographs of tbe prisoners have also been sent, bilt no news of their wherea bouts haa yet beeu received.