Two Prisoners Handcuffed Together Jump from a Hotel Window in their Night Clothes and Escape.

Clinton West and W. J. Ninman were brought to North Manchester, Ind. from Union City in that State on Tuesday night, Feb. 4. to answer to the charge of burglarizing Rev. Kempi's house in December last. They were taken to the American House to be kept until morning. Expressing a desire to go to bed, they were taken up stairs, handcuffed together, and their boots and clothing taken from the room, and they were allowed to retire. Between two and three o'clock it was discovered that they had jumped out of the window, a distance of about ten feet, and made their escape in their night clothes and stocking feet. They went four miles south of town. where they entered the stable of J. W. Mease, stole two of his horses and lit out. Men following in hot pursuit caught them on the horses.

Illustrated Police News, February 29, 1879.