Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-27
IT'S BOLD BUSINESS.
nut THEIR PLANS ARE rOILEp.
A Timely Discovery by Jailor Hill
priekod the Zig lubble.-Thirly
Days work Spoiled.

A deep laid ana cfa.tily clucoolei
plot on the part Of prisoners 20
escape from the c'uuty jail was forum.
ately nippoi ia ihe bud las, night BY
Jailor w. h, nm, but for WHOSE keen
eye nearly score Of men under Dc.
touiion ut shat Institution would, ia
all probability, very soon have
been at liberty. Upon going his final
rounds about 1880 last night Mr.. Hin
caught sight Of two small pieces of
brick lying upon tho cellar floor, im.
mciiatoly underneath the revolving
cells. AZ frat no was at loss 10 nc.
count Tor this, anu "a search around
there failed 10 afford any clue a. 10
whoru the broken brick came from. The
iailgrdciofmlnod, however, no. 10 lUt
the matter rest until he had salts.
fed himself on this point.
Inaifuc,ibg the man on night duty TO
| keep more than usually careful
| watch, he this morning, Immediately
| after breakfast had been served 10 the
| prisoners, sUt about making further
aui closer invcsugatlon; this time with
satisfactory results,
Againat the west wall OF the jail, be.
tween two OF the barred Windows, Anj
only q lew feet from the ground outside,
hangs a framed card setting forth the
Tulel anu regulations oi tho prison.
This wall IN three bricks IN thick.
nufs, aud upon moving aside tbs
card Mt. Hiii at once solved the PROT.
lem. There, sure enough, was cut "A
gaping hole s1me 10 by 10 inches IN
aiEr. Six or more OF the bricks had
been carried away; the outside layer
had been tapped" and IL would
not have required much mors
labor 10 let In daylight. In
order to prevent the plaster around
tho ragged cigcs from falling, tho
would-uo jail breakers had placed n
coating OF soap upon them.
Tailor HIN eau now esily guess how
the scheme was worked. the prisoners
arc allowed half nm hours exercise
after each meal, and IL was In that
p0ulon o. the building In which this
Gagged promenade Il allowed that their
ingenuity on this occasion was dis
played. Mr. Hill IL Of opinion that this
boring hal been going on by degrees
for the last thirty days or more,
aud tbs fellows who took part Ia the
business choae tho wall Al that pArtlo.
. ular spot because they knew the card
was seldom touched by the officers a.
chnfsc WhileItho "rFcreallou" OF the
: fall birds goes on IL IN not cOusidetol
Z necessary 10 station a custodian neal
, them, and now II would seem tina
, while one or moro OF the prisoners kept
! a lookout TOT the chance approach OF
an officer, others among the batch o.
Copying the cylindrical cells on thu
, | fitst door did the actual business.
The broken bricks which came from
= the hollow In tho wall had boon care
= fully slowed away upon ono OF tn,
iron gifiere that support the nool
: above the cellar; and II was here tina
the TAILOR discovered them today.
Tho cells arc made 10 TeVOlye eyery
day, 40 that no prisoner occupies tn,
same position two days together a
the same time, by n ekilfully devised
plan the brick could be passed irJn
cell 90 cell until the tlnal deposit had
n been made.
ItiE believed that the men by whom
the wall was attacked used shu
shank to accomplish Iheir task, nj
u though up 10 this writing nothing la
z been found.
a 10 question any Of the prisoner
would, Mr.. Hin states, he altogether
- useless, ~ tue entire brotherhood o
a great unWashed at pre'ent IN conhn,
10 mrut thugo would mold the secret 4
p. the end OF the chapter
"A There arc more prisoners In tn
!, county jail Mt this lime than at an
Il period sluue Sheriff McQueen took tn
- rolns. They number In al thiriy'hv'
= but the majority VI ihem are hold |,
"A await tue action OF the next gran
!. jury -