Ingenious escape.
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Fred Schulz, a life member, made his escape from the prison, on Monday night last, in the following ingenious manner:
‘ On Monday he "layed up" in his cell, pretending to be sick, and in the evening, after dark, drilled a small hole, to admit a wire, in the lock of his door.
After the prisoner is locked in his cell for the night, the doors are further secured by a long heavy iron bar which runs the whole length of the tier of cells, and so arranged as to drop down over the top of each door and thus doubly secure it for the night — this bar is not, however, dropped down until about 8 o'clock, so that until that time the lock is the only security to prevent the prisoner from getting into the cell room.
After the prisoners have finished their evening meal an officer passes around the wards, and takes from each prisoner his dish and relocks the door,
Schulz was on the first ward, and after the officer had taken his dish and passed on, he doubtless, drilled his hole in the lock and drew back the bolt; and as soon as the keeper had gone to the further end of the block and upon the second tier, (
Schulz being on the lower tier, and near the stairs, by which the corridors are reached,) he opened his door and passed rapidly up to the fourth tier, and on to the southwest octagon, the lock of which he picked — here his progress was stopped by a trap door, which led out to the battlements on the top — this door was well secured by a heavy iron bar and padlock, which, however, presented no obstruction to the ingenious mechanic — by-the-way, the best blacksmith in the prison, and who has done all the fine
iron work in the institution.
Here he doubtless, however, remained until sometime in the night.
He then ascended, taking the iron bar with him, which he placed between the battlements, and fastened a rope he had prepared from his bedtick, and lowered himself down to the bars of the cell-room window, the grating of which furnished him a secure ladder for his descent into the prison yard, and the board fence in front of the prison was a difficulty readily overcome.
His escape was not discovered, of course, until breakfast in the morning, when the evidences of his leave-taking as above given were readily apparent.
Every effort has been made for his capture by the commissioner, but so far without effect. -- ’
Waupin (Wis.) Item. 
