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ANOTHER GETAWAY AT COUNTY JAIL
William Fix Got Tired Wheeling Cinders and Walked Off
Was In For a Six Month Term for Desertion from the Canal Guard
[Welland Telegraph, 22 August 1916]
William Fix, aged 23, a soldier sentenced by Magistrate Fraser of Niagara Falls, to serve six months for desertion, made his escape from Welland County jail and is still at large.
The manner of his escape was simplicity itself. A. Miller, assistant turnkey, had the men engaged in wheeling cinders from the yard, out the east gate (next the registry office), and dumping the barrows in the back yard next the river. Mr. Miller stood on the outside of the gateway so that the man with the barrow was always in his view.
At about a quarter past three Fix was going out with a load when Mr. Miller stepped inside to see how many loads were yet to be taken. On his return a minute afterward Fix was gone-though he left the wheelbarrow.
He was seen by a passerby running down the river road and was last reported at Hutton’s bush. He wore the regulation prison garb.
Fix is the third prisoner to make his escape from the county jail this year. Two got away last year.
The prisoner is a married man and his wife lives in St. Catharines. He was a member of the canal guard at Niagara Falls and deserted. Later he was found working on a farm in Humberstone.
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