New Orleans (LA) Pimes-Picayune, May 8, 1875, p. 8.
DARING ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF PRISON
Jeffersonville, Indiana, May 7-Bill Rodifer, one of the most noted convicts
in America, made another daring attempt to escape from the penitentiary with
three other prisoners at three o'clock this morning. One of the guards
heard a noise in one of the cells and, on making an examination, he was
suddenly confronted by the prisoner armed with a revolver. The guard
retreated for help, and on further examination showed that Rodifer, in some
mysterious manner, had secured the keys, unlocked his cell door, silently
seized the inside guard, disarmed him, threw him into the cell, locked him
in, and then made an attempt to knock a hole in the wall large enough to get
through. The noise he made in attempting this first alarmed the guard and
Rodifer was secured and again locked up.