Arizona republican., 1894-12-27

back or sprung, furnishing an aper- ture which would with some difficulty permit the passage of man of average size. From the jail room the fugitives easily passed into the jail yard where they fonnd themselves cut of from freedom only by closely boarded fence fourteen feet high. A chair was carried from the jaii room to the south west corner of the stockade.~ The top of the fence was still far out of reach, but a shovel with it's shoulder" hooked over the top of the fence WAS easily climbed and the murderer and the counterfeiter were free men.
 All this was apparent at a glance, but there was still an unprofita ble mvs- tery to be solved. It must have taken a long time to saw those chains in two When the prisoners were fed half an hour before the escape was discovered, the chains seemed to be intact; at least they were in their proper places. The work could not possibly have been done in half an hour.
 Then again Price had been confined in bIs cell and released only at meal times so that he could not have taken any part in the saving of the chains.
 Jose Maria Sortillon also under sentence of death for murder threw some light on the escape yesterday. He told reporter for the REPUBLICAN that about two o'clock on Christmas afternoon he was awakened by the sound of saving. Young was doing it and having cut the cbain al most in two he filled up the cutting with soap and stove polish to prevent discovery. I'm mediateiy after supper and after the jail door had been closed he and Price who had been turned cut for supper and would not have been locked in his cell until the regular locking up time, made an attack on the chains. It was only moments work to sever them and in another moment the two prisoners had gone.
 "Why didn't you go too?" Sortillon was asked.
 "Oh." he replied, "I not here to go. I could got out two, three times but I stay to git out right or mebbe I git something else.'
 The work was done with a small steel saw for cutting iron. How 1t was in- troduced into jail the officials do not know, but say it could have been easily done by anyone from the outside. Be- side the heavy bars which protect the windows there is strong, heavy wire netting, but it does not fit SO closely to the framework as to p. event the pas sage of pliable steel blade. The officers do not believe the prisoners had any active or influential confederates on the outside. Neit.eae has any friends in town and neither has mad a caller for weeks. The last visitor of Price was his brother, who was here about six weeks ago, but he remained in the city only three days and saw the murderer only twice.
 The theory is that the saw was passed in by some hobo with whom an ar- rangement had been made during & short confinement. It is not believed that the fugitives had any other assist ance from the outside.
 Mir. Hooker said that when the men reached the end of the alley in their race they stopped for an instant and looked as if expecting possibly to find horses waiting for them. The stop, however, was only for an instant and the flight was continued. AS soon as it was light yesterday morning the pur- suit was renewed hy Sheriff Murphy, Sheriff-elect L. H. Orme, Deputy Prothero and Mir. Hooker.
 Sheriff Murphy soon returned aud late in the afternoon Mr. Hooker came in, having skirted along the river for about three miles. The others went i farther down the river to cut farther out for a trail. They had not reported at midnight.
 Absolutely mp trace of the fngitives has been discovered from the point where they were last seen, and the off cels are uncertain whether they are still in the vicinity or whether they succeeded in getting horses the night oI their escape and pushed on southward
 One thing is reasonably certain and that is that their recapture, if effected at all, will be attended by a fight in which some one is likely to die.
 The desperation of Price has beer proven and Young is said to be dan gerous character and expert in the use of weapons.