“EXTRA! EXTRA!
“Brutality in an Asylum!
“Inmates Driven to Desperation by Outrages!
“Special to the Globe.
“The Harrowing Tale of Seven Escaped Lunatics.
“Garrisons, N. Y., August 11.——The Globe is enabled to present to its readers to-day a tale of official cruelty such as has seldom been known in this State. This extraordinary series of incidents was discovered by the matchless enterprise and indomitable persistence of the Globe men and will be found in this paper exclusively. Read the Globe!”
This was in big type across the top of the first page; below it was a huge picture, labeled, “Faces of the Seven Lunatics. Sketched by a Globe Artist on the Spot.” After that were about half a dozen columns of the “news.”
“The Adventures of the Seven!
“Wild Doings of the Escaped Lunatics Which Led to Their Identification.
“A Raid Upon a Circus!
“There was intense excitement in Highland Falls to-day. Driven to desperation by the excessive cruelties, all of which are described in another part of the paper in the very words of the unfortunate wretches, the latter forced their way from the asylum and took Highland Falls by storm. One of them, a lad from Texas, with a history that is perfectly harrowing in its details (see seventh column) ran amuck and nearly killed the proprietor of the circus by lassoing him and dragging him around the ring (page two, third column). After that he released one of the buffaloes in the show and rode the animal out into the river.
“The seven have now disappeared into the woods. The mayor of Highland Falls is organizing a searching party to recapture them. The lunatics have vowed to die first; they consented to talk to the Globe reporter only because, knowing the great influence of the paper, they thought that the outrages might be suppressed.