The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-11
JAIL BREAKING
Five Prisoners Escape from rho county
JaII--None Captured as Yet,

five Prisoners Escape from rho county
JaiI--None Captured AS Yet.
Some time between midnight and
three o'clock yesterday morning, five
prisoners confined In tho county jail
escaped, and 80 far none have been
captured. one OF the guards informed
the reporter that he went on duty NJ
twelve O'Clock. Everything passed
OIL quietly for u couple OF hours or 30,
when he heard "A noise In the direc-
ton of the roof, which he ut first sup
posed was caused by rats. However,
TO be sure that all was safe, he looked
around more closely, and In an up
stairs cell, In which are confined thir'
teen white men, he discovered one OF
them standing up In the cell, with his
hat on. This aroused the suspicion OF
the guard, who counted the priso ners
and found five missing. The one
with his hat on was doubtless the next
In order 10 leave. An alarm was inn
medlately given to the other guards
and an investigation and search instlN
tuted. 1t was then discovered that the
prisoners In that particular cell had
cut u hole In the ceiling OF the cell,
near the southwest corner. That
portion of this cell IL not In view OF
the guard from the outside. Through
this hole the prisoners easily made
their way to the roof, from which they
descended by strips of blankets tied
together till II reached the ground.
Once on the ground the prisoners east
ly escaped from the Jail yard by means
Of strips Of blankets, which they threw
over the high fence, and which caught
between the piokets, from knot tied
in the eud oHa strip for that purpose.
10 Is not known what kind Of tools the
prisoners used to make the hole In the
ceiling, but II is thought they used a
razor, as two OF these were In the cell
the day previous. II IL had not been
for the noise on the roof 1t Is probable
that more would have escaped.
The following are the names and
description OF those that escaped
Robert Motiat charged with the
murder of Matthews. Moffat Is an
Irishman, five feet, seven or eight in
ches in height, weighs about one humid
red and thirty"1ve pounds, has light
hair, which % cut short, face ia pock-
marked, and he Is about twenty-f five
years old.
Charles q. Chiffon, charged with
horse.stealing,is about thirty years old,
weighs one hundred and forty pounds,
four feet ten inches high, light COM
plexion pale, blue eyes, red moustache
and side whiskers.
Charles Gill, charged with theft,
about twenty-five years old, but looks
much younger, heavy set, weighing
about one hundred and fifty pounds,
five feet six or seven inches high,
dark hair, and has red spot on mis-
nose made by blood wart.
Gus Philippe, a Frenchman, charged
with thoft, ABOUT tweuty-eight years
old, black hair and moustache, very
slender, weighs about one hundred
and fifteen pounds, about five feet ten
inches high, and has lost one of his
trout teeth.
Charles Clifford, charged with theft,
about thirty-tlve years old, weighs one
hundred and forty pounds, dark COM
plexion, about five feet nine inches
high, has black moustache and i'm.
perial. On his right arm he has the
figure Of woman or man, made with
India ink.
All of these are white men. A Wig
orous search il now being instituted
by the sheritf's officials for them, which
we hope will soon be crowned with
success.