Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29
JAIL DELIVERY
sTx PRISONERS EsCAPE From
CASTLE LLOYD.


SI1 PRISONER hScAPE Fis0M
~ LLOKD
! rive ~ Them urd.r senteuoe for various
49, p-.4....- - IN.
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noiu "r sno 1au
They Broke Out n How They Did
So-Description of the Place That Held
Ahem-
ehort,v .fto- - rhrrsdav three
1ass a 5. -. r...t
snots were neard y .rohe e ~ oo.10
House. They were fired ny Sherin LLOYD Ior
thepurpose of notifying the police that
\ somethiur was wrong. Al crowd quickly
1870 81 a. -. laarrad tbat s;x nris.
~ r.r-A-
onerss wno naa Deen connneu n
Jail, had made their escape. The discovery
was made by Jailer Cook about O'Clock
wban he lockad the -nrisoners in their cells
.a-ar--..rI mi. -. - aonfrad *
.or one nisnos mo. -.
tne upper tier Of cells 10 1ne JAIL On ohe 0as'
side, and it is the j~ailer's custom when the
men are IN their cells to pass along on each
AGO. ord danortpant n the CAGE and see
~. = 49, ans 1900 10 I,cIs
ona' oney arein En0 s.n' 70 ros-s
the cage finally. AZ doing 80 ne discovereu
that These six men were absent.
The cage in which the priSoners are con
snaa !. I aonhIa.ta., e.. nattern
nn ~. 2 oup'0.Sory 49,. con.
pune ny oo- LOUIS nrm' 49,
strncted OF steel bars on three sides,
with steel sheeting forming the floors and
divis;ops ~ the cells. The fnnrth side is
| made 81 strong sbeet steeI ~stronoIy clamped
" tn steel bars. The cage contains twenty.
fonr cells s;v in each comnartment. With
twelve cells on each tier. ft stands ON a
solid atone Foundation Ia the Jail at the
| north end ~ the Conrt House. the fourth
side mentioned being within eighteen inches
81 the NORTH wall. The iail is lighted by
nao ~ the sides. strongly barred. and
nv y skylipht in the rnof also protected by
hars. The cage reaches to within three
feet of the roof. and is several feet from
| the walls ON the east, west and south
sides. giving plenty OF light and air 10
the inmates.
Al stated. the men who escaped were
| confined in the uppe tier facing cart
There Il nlentv az room between the cells
| and the steel bars forming the cage for
the men to walk about in each Of the four
compartments. and they have this priv
Iepe until Iockinp.up time comes. when they
enter the cells assigned to them, the cell
ldoors are closed upon them, and the outer
doors admittinp to each compartment
are locked by an arrangement that
locks all the cells in that
compartment at once. The only weak
spot about the cage il on the north side
| which is formed OF three-eighths inch sheet
steal whieh.m;qht natnralIv he snpposed ia
/. E - E.s - d. xI:. - Al,
nart through which the escape wal made.
The prisoners mad cut q SQUARE hole at
this end in the last cell of the compart-
| ment. How long thew had been in doing SO
il. of course, impossible to conjecture, but
that thew must have been furnished from
fine outside with tools to do 30 ia certain.
as only the best tools could make any i'm.
preston on the chilled steel surface upon
| which they worked. They had access to
the cell during all the day, it being
one that the officials kept for the
use OF transient prisoners, 10 be locked up
for a night. 1t had been empty of an occu-
pant for some time.
Once through the opening in the north
wall OF the cage, it was q simple matter
for q man to climb to the top OF the cage
four or five feet above him. and once on
| the top of the cage it was g. simple matter
to knock q hole through the lath and
| plaster oil the ceiling Immediately above
! him, pull himself into the hole, creep along
| between the ceiling and roof to the sky.
light, break through it and get out on the
roof. They had torn their hammocks into
strips, forming a strong cord, which they
attached to a chimney standing at the
| edge o: the roof, by which they descended
to the ground.
Careful search of the cells failed to reveal
l tho fa0lS mhiNh fha mon had J1aa1 - ThQ
~jailers say they must have been furnished
them by some outsider, and such tools can
be packed in very SINAI compass and even
seut by letter. & perfectly tempered fine
steel chisei, such as had evidently been used
to cut the piece out OF the side oil the cell,
the jailers say, can be carried IN the mouth
between the upper lip and gnms. The
Sheriff is not allowed to open letters adj
dressed to prisoners and the tool or tools
used might have come in them. The work
was very clean, and the excellence OF the
tools used may be imagined when 1T Is
stated that they had to cut through a fiat
bar about two inches wide and h~ve.eighths
OF an inch thick that ran vertically over
the outside OF the hole they cut.
The Sheriff thinks they made their escape
after z O'Clock, as the girl in his kitchen,
which is underneath the north end of theiail
proper, heard some unusual scraping noise
on the wall outside shortly after that. 1t
is scarcely likely tina they would not take
every precaution to make as little noise as
possible in descending to the ground, and
the fact that the girl had only been a short
time in the Sherif's service may account
for her not regarding the sounds she heard
as worthy OF attention. The Sheriff and
his family were not at home at the time,
but he was Immediately notified when
Jailer Cook made the discovery and re-
turned to the Court House in no very
pleasant frame OF mind: Immediate pre-
caution were at once taken TO recover the
fugltiyes. Inc police were notlhed and
armed men at once started TO folio" them.
IL was aimost useless, however. Line
night was intensely dark, and the smelter-
SMOKE log enveioped the city Tar beyond
tne !ah WIN an impenetraDie OF
murkiness tfat nade pursuit OF a. man
wien one minutes star1 an lmpossiolli.y.
lne loe was an especiai providence Ior
sne iugleiVes, as once ou1 OF slgnt OF the
!aiI III 10, cney eouio walk tne sGreets
WIN para ease SAT- from detec-
LOT.
Inc names OF the men and their descrip-
eion are as follows:
Is1lge r. Denson' snoro, eeaVy set,
iign6 nalr, smooGn lace, ABOUT 10 years