The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-23
THE SAWS ARE FOUND
Joe Y0ung's Jail Breaking Out
fit Located at Last.
HIDDEN AWAY FOR FUTURE USE.
An Ingenious Lamp for Heating the
Steel Bars and Two Metal Saws
Discovered.

Cave yesterday solved the mystery Of the
disappearance of the saws which were
snluggied into the county Jail last fall 10
aid Joe Young. the biackmaiIer, TO break
jail. They made ''shake-down" or
search of the steel cage in the north end,
where all OF the dangerous criminals are
confined. and found the saws hidden away
in q most inaccessible Place In another
place lamp designed for heating the bars
of the cage and renderins them soft enough
to saw was found. The result of the
''shake-down" causes great relief to the
jaiiers. since so long rs the saws were in
the cage IT was not known at what moment
jail break might be expected. II was
, thought by some tina, the saws had been
destroyed by the prisoners.
The saws found yesterday. together with
murderous looking bulldog revolver and
cartridges, were smuggied in to Young soon
after his conviction of an assault with in
tent 10 rob Police Commissioner Resfe. for
which he is now serving a twelve-year
term. Ii is supposed that Young's wife
concealed them in her dress ard brought
them TO him. Any way, it was found by
Jaiier Munroe that they were in the cage,
and Young made no eonceaIment of the
fact hat he had the gun" and often
boosted that seine one was going TO die il
he was not allowed to escape. Jailer Nun
roe got sight If the pistol and saws finally
and ordered YouBg 70 give them up. The
latter reused and was given few days TO
think over the matter. Then although he
deted any one to touch him he was taken
from MS cell. disarme4 and placed in irons
in dark cell. But the other prisoners
had the saws and would not give them up.
Young got out of the BLACK hole" and
was sent to the penitensiary. The noted
criminals. Frank Wilson. John Dryden
and several other prisoners who knew
where the saws were hidden followed. but
no one of them .'peaehed" and Jailer
Munroe dismissed the matter from his
mind, almost thinking that the SAWS had
been broken up and dropped down oae of
the dust holes ont of reach of both the
jaiIer and themselves. since pretty thor
ough search failed to discover them.
Last Thursday. however. Acting Jailer
Cave vas Informed that the saws were still
in the cage and was told where to ind
them. He went 10 Sheriff Woolery and Il
was arranged to again search the Jail. hut
ii was carefully concealed from the prison.
ers. Yesterday morning the sheriff came
down, the minor offenders were locked
in their cage in the south end and
the north cage opened. Cave went inside
and ordered them out, and they complied.
The sheriff told them 10 go into the corrl-
dor on the south side. and there they were
locked up. Gave then took q long wire
with hook on the end, and going TO one
of the doors of the steel cage in the north
end he thrust the wire into an iron trough
OF pipe. about two inches in diameter,
over the door. A few thrusts of the wire.
q rattle of metal on the iron floor and
there lay the saws. The trough or pipe is
made of heavy steel and protects one of
the rods running from the door TO the au-
tomato locking and unlocking apparatus.
bv which the lailer can move Q lever and
unlock or lock any one of the cells or OF
the cage doors. The space in which the
saws were hidden would barely contain
them Further search was made. but the
only thing found was the lamp for heating
the bars, which was concealed under a
heap of old clothes in cell
There are two of the saws, both about
seven or eight inches long aud of the
finest steel. being what are usually called
hack saws. made expressly for saving
metals. Yet they would not scratch the
glass hard" steel bars of the cage, as
trial showed. This shows why the lamp
was needed. The lamp is an ingenious
contriyance. Iii made of a small con-
densed milk can, IN the top of which two
small holes have been punched Through
each OF these holes a strip of tin wound
around piece OF round wood or iron TO
form a tube is thrust and in these tnbes
wicks made from cotton rags go down into
the melted fat contained in the can, and
probably obtained by rendering the fat
from the meat served the prisoners The
wicks can be Kicked up high enough TO
make quite respectable blaze, and the
flame from them blown against one of the
hard steel bars would undoubtedly soften
il most effectuaily in very short time