#prison breaks

It would have been fun if they mentioned Impel Down because for one thing it plays with a lot of the tropes including the fact that Luffy is trying to break in and out of prison to free his brother before the execution happens. However, in the end, it's futile and he is taken, but in the meantime he does ruin the prison's reputation and causes quite the ruckus and it was one of the more morally dubious things he did due to the fact that many evil prisoners could go back into the world to harm people. And of course, he allies with old friends, old enemies, and future allies/ teammates to save Ace before and when the Marineford War happens.

“Three Jail-Breakers Go To Penitentiary,” Toronto Star. July 19, 1932. Page 1. ---- Men Who Escaped From Reformatory Pleaded Guilty ---- Special to The Star Guelph, July 19. - Four years in Portsmouth Penitentiary, Kingston, was the sentence meted out to-day to three inmates of the Ontario reformatory for breaking out of the reformatory, June 27.

The trio, Jack Siddall (1), John Hill (2), and George E. Skelly (3), were working in the butcher shop of the reformatory. Siddall smashed the door with a wrench in order to allow the other two men to escape. Siddall was charged with breaking prison and the other two with escaping. All three pleaded guilty.

Siddall was sent to the reformatory from Toronto; Hill, from Lindsay, and Skelly, from Hamilton.

[AL: 1. Jack Siddall was 18 at the time of conviction, single, born in Toronto, and unemployed then. He was convict #2728 at Kingston Penitentiary and placed in the Prison of Isolation. He worked in the Stone Shed #2, and supported the October 13 strike and October 17-20 strikes and riot. He did so for more recreation, newspapers, and the removal and replacement of buckets in the cells for washrooms. Siddall was something of an agitator, and he was accused in May 1934 of being involved in the smuggling of notes and manifestos out of the Prison of Isolation written by one of the prisoner leaders, Sam Behan, and was active in supporting a mass strike on May 5, 1934. He was released early due to royal clemency March 1935.

2. Hill was 18, single, from Bobcaygeon and a general labourer. He was convict #2729 at Kingston Penitentiary, and worked in the mail bags. He was angry that they got tobacco and cigarettes at Guelph but not at Kingston. He supported the October strikes and riots, for recreation, newspapers, more latitude in the rules, and for a better dentist “who could do something for me.” He was released March 1935.

3. Skelly was the troublemaker and agitator of the three. He was born in Hamilton, 21 at time of conviction, had a shield and letters C.E.S. tattooed on his right forearm, missing two fingers from a workplace injury and had served a previous term at Burwash. At Kingston Penitentiary, Skelly was convict #2727 and worked in stone shed #1, stone cutting; he was kept in cell #14-4-C. He was an active participant in the October 13, 1932 strike in the Stone Sheds and supported the October 17-20 strikes and riots.  After the riot, he complained to the investigators about favourites and partiality and work assignments: “Some fellows get good jobs. Well I got a job. Am in the Stone Shed and was put there when  had no knowledge of the work....I have had two fingers amputated...it is not work for a fellow minus two fingers.” Skelly didn’t like the shop Instructor and Guard Harper, and he claimed that he lost remission during an earlier protest, due to “all the boys were hollering, making noises, so were the officers...wrote up six fellows in a row for no reason.” More broadly, he told the investigators “...I understand the discipline is bad... baths are too short. Cecil Smith [another recent arrival] has lost 5 days remission being in the shower too wrong...that is not right.” He concluded: “If the fellows are given a break that will do what is right.”  Skelly’s list of infractions is very long. He was reported the following times between his arrival and mid-1933:

September 24, 1932: For fighting in the stone shed this morning. Lose three days remission. 24/9/32. Gilbert Smith.

October 10, 1932: For shouting, booing and making farting noises with his mouth both during and after the concert and for farting at the Rev. W. H. Smith when he visited the range this p.m. Lose five days remission. 11/10/32. Gilbert Smith.

October 13, 1932: For yelling and hitting the bars with his trey. For yelling and causing a disturbance on the range. For yelling and using profane language and causing a disturbance and agitator. Lose three days remission. 13/10/32. Gilbert Smith.

January 21, 1933: For not going to his cell when told to and giving insolence. When coming from supper these men held me from being in time for duty on ‘G’ range. Reprimanded. WBM. 23/1/33.

January 30, 1933: For passing the remark ‘horseshit’ when Kpr. Donoghue told the gang to come in and out from exercise in single file. Lose ten days remission. 31/1/33. WBM.

Feb. 9, 1933: For barking at Asst. Chief Keeper Nolan while in the line-up waiting for supper. Reprimanded. WBM. 13/2/33.

February 23, 1933: For inciting other convicts to create a disturbance and shouting out that he wanted Bossenberry [a popular inmate] out of the hole. When he saw me in front of his cell he shouted ‘there’s a screw in front of my cell 14-4-C what the  hell have you quit shouting for, are you afraid of a screw? Come on boys lets raise the lid of this fucking joint.” Above happened at 9.30 pm. Also participated in the dome disturbance, hammering his plate and hollering Sentenced to ten (10) strokes with paddle. 24/2/33

For that occasion, when interviewed Skelly told the officers: “‘I have nothing to say; I hollered and raised a lot of noise; I took my part along the others; I admit I banged my cup and plate, but I did not break the plate purposely….When the others started I just joined in.” He was accused of assaulting another inmate, a purported rat, in May 1933. He took part in the same May 1934 protest - against the cancellation of baseball - that Siddall took part in, and was reported and given corporal punishment for “causing a disturbance to incite others by rattling his dish on the bars and shouting to other convicts – ‘Keep it up boys, we got them going.’” He told the Warden: “I plead guilty, Warden. I’m just a damn fool.’

Skelly was also involved in a riot and hostage taking in March 1935, when a group of twenty-five inmates, wearing improvised masks and with their inmate numbers ripped from their uniforms, occupied several workshops, barricaded the doors, and took three officers hostage; Skelly had recently been transferred to the shoe shop in that building. Unlike the 1932 strike, the guards taken captive were gagged, tied, and beaten by the leaders of the uprising. Several of the inmates set fire to the mail bags manufactured inside, destroying most of the machinery and nearly killing several men. The prison officers who stormed the building were also exceptionally brutal, beating surrendered inmates with batons. During the investigation afterwards, few of the participants would explain exactly what they had hoped to gain, except, as one individual guessed: “They don’t want exercises. They want base balls. They want human treatment instead of persecution, and everything like that.” Skelly himself was implicated in planning the riot, was considered an “agitator” by several other prisoners, but his testimony was rather limited in this regard:  

“I can’t actually name them Warden, [the participants] they had masks on their faces and running around, I can’t swear they were taking party in it…I did not [open any doors with stolen keys] but if I can have my say for a few moments I will tell you something.”

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“Fauria, Bank Robber, and Felon Companion Escape from Asylum,” Toronto Star. June 18, 1936. Page 01 & 02.

“Slip Out Penetang Hospital Gate While Rolling Baseball Diamond. ARE STILL AT LARGE Outdistance Pursuers and No Trace Found - Both Classified as Criminally Insane. Special to the Star. Penetanguishene, June 18. - Classed as ‘criminally insane,’ Marion ‘Cal’ Fauria, a convicted bank robber, and John Brown, with a record of breaking and entering, escaped here yesterday noon from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and are still at large.

Police squads have searched the neighborhood in vain.

Dr. C.A. McClenahan, hospital superintendent, said there was no definite clue to the men’s whereabouts, but they were believed hiding in the district, possibly near Wyebridge, five miles south of Midland.

One report said they had been seen in Penetanguishene last night.

Describing the escape to-day, Dr. E.A. Clark, of the hospitals branch of the department of health, Toronto, stated ‘Brown’ and Fauria were engaged with a guard in rolling the baseball diamond, an enclosed ground connected to the institution.  The guard opened the gate for a second to shove the roller out, and both patients jumped through, and escaped.

‘Both are very active, and they outdistanced pursuers.’

All Wednesday afternoon and evening, the hospitals branch, which immediately notified the police, hoped that the escaped men would be recaptured.  

‘We think they are hiding somewhere,’ Dr. Clark said.

Although classified as ‘criminally insane’ both men, it was intimated at the parliament buildings, are not socially dangerous, so far as endangering anybody by assault. 

‘There was nothing about their mental condition to warrant any great concern,’ it was stated. ‘They were allowed out on the recreation ground to help roll it because, to all intents and purposes, they were normal.’

Neither man attempted to assault the guard before escaping, the department reports.  ‘When the gate was opened,’ they just simply made a jump, each in a different direction.  The guard followed them, and the alarm was raised, but both men are exceptionally active, and easily outdistanced the guard.

‘There is not a great distance from the institution to wooded, rough country where it is easy to hide,’ said Dr. Clark. ‘Besides, there are highways, and it is not very difficult to hitchhike.

Wearing Ordinary Clothes ‘Neither men had anything about their clothes to attract anybody.  They were dressed in ordinary civilian clothes, and it would be easy for them to obtain rides.’

Whether the two men joined each other later is not known.  Neither man was seen after the break-away.

Records at Toronto detective headquarters show Fauria on Feb. 8, 1933, held up and robbed the Queen and Kenilworth branch of the Bank of Toronto of $5,833.65.

Police records describe Brown as 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 153 pounds with dark brown hair, hazel eyes and fresh complexion.  A heart pierced by an arrow is tattooed on his left arm.

Both men came from Kingston penitentiary.  Hospital authorities say Brown is not so much ‘criminally insane’ as ‘psychopathic.’

Also Sentenced to Lashes Fauria was convicted in Hamilton on a charge of bank robbery in October, 1933, and sentenced to seven years with 17 lashes in Kingston penitentiary.  At that time he had already been committed for trial in Toronto on a charge of robbing the Queen and Kenilworth branch of the Bank of Toronto.  But when the Hamilton conviction sent him to Kingston the Toronto trial was not proceeded with, police say.

While being taken for trial in Hamilton, Fauria escaped and an exciting police chase took place before was recaptured.

Fauria was arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., for Hamilton and Toronto on April 13, 1933.  He was extradited and brought back to Toronto by Det-Sgt. Norman Tinsley, of the Toronto police department, to face bank robbery charges.

He is classed by Inspector of Detectives John Chisholm as a ‘dangerous criminal.’ Fauria, according to police records, was born in New Orleans and is a machinist by trade.  His last known address was Windsor. Fauria is described as 27 years old, five feet nine inches tall, black hair, brown eyes, a birth mark on his chest, sallow complexion. Fauria passed most of his life in the Windsor-Detroit area.