Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-29
SLIPPED THE BOLTS.
Sensational Jail-Breaking at
Visalia.
Three Sly kogues Lock Them
selves Out.
Grattan Dalton, the Train Robber,
One Of the Escapes.
Three Thousand Dollars Reward or
Eered for His Recapture-The Trio
Thonght to Be Aboard a Train
for Oklahoma.
Associated Press Dispatches.

V1sAIIA, CAL, Sept. 2S.-Grattan Dal-
ton made his escape from the county
Jail last night. He was to be sentenced
Monday next on conviction for the Alila
train robbery. John Beck, awaiting trial
for horse stealing, and w. B. Smith, for
burglarizing 3 car at Tulare, are also
gone. The delivery was made by open
ing an iron window in the basement
with key, then opening the kitchen
door with different key and the cell
door with another. AS the men passed
out the doors were again locked, and
nothing was known OF the escape until
this morning. George Mckinley, living
Eve miles south OF town, came in last
night to attend church and hitched his
horses to the court house plaza. After
church the horses and buggy were gone,
and are supposed to have been taken by
the escapes. The sheriff and deputies
are in pursuit. The men had assistance
either from the outside or inside. There
was guard at the jail looking for an
attack from another quarter. William
Dalton is still confned in the jail and is
OoADly 6uuiOSus
HEADED FOR OKLAHOMA.
VIsALIA, CAL, Sept. 2S.-George Nc
Kinley's team was found at Tulare city
this evening at 6 AS O'Clock. This is
the team with which Dalton, Smith and
Peck, the jail-breakers, are supposed to
have left town. They had time to take
the south bound train and are supposed
to be making for Oklahoma. Jailer
. Williams says he locked the men in
their cells at 5 80 p. M, last night, saw
them go in the cells, and turned the
bolts, then went in and turned the
locks. This morning the nuts on the
levers that turn the bolts to the cells
were found to be loose, allowing the
bolts to be pushed back. Then
an outside assistant had key to unlock
the cell doors, allowing them egress to
the corridor. With keys for the kitchen
door and basement windows, escape
was easy. The escape was made about
$50 O'Clock last night. The iugitives
are undoubtedly on their way to Okla
homa.
A search of the Jail tonight discovered
knife blade filed for a saw, a whet-
stone, file and an iron bar sawed from
the corridor.
$4,000 REWARD OFFERED.
San Francisco, Sept. 2S.-Wells, Far
go & Co. join the Southern Pacific COM
pany in offering reward OF $4,000 for
the arrest and return to Sheriff Kay, at
Fisalia, Of Grattan Dalton, the escaped
train robber.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ESCAPES.
The following dispatch from General
Superintendent Fillmore was received
yesterday by the Southern Pacific Off
eials in this city:
''Grat Dalton, convicted of train rob-
berry at Alila February 6, 1891. and in
5ail awaiting sentence at Visalla, es-
capped last night, in company with Will
lam Barton Smith, brakeman, convicted
of train robbery September 10, 1891,
and who was to be sentenced today.
Grat Dalton is about feet 10 inches
high, weighs 100 pounds, dark complex
ion and light mustache. William B.
Smith is % years of age, feet s inches
high. weighs 16S pounds, gray eyes and
black hair"