The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-07

Through the Wall In Broad Day Light
Coiored Boy Tells Them At the jail that
Two Men Ran Up Market street-They
Get Good Start and Cannot be Foand-
Sheriff lsoyse Roasts Tailor Homer and
Says He Is Tired Of this Thing of Having
to Run After Escaped Prisoners.
When the deputy sherifYs were all
out on the streets yesterday talking
with the rest of the crowd about the
new police commissioners Gill Massey
and Henry Dumminville celebrated the
occasion by breaking out Of jail
Jailor Horner had let the prisoners
out in the hall 10 exercise and eat
their breakfast about nine o'clock In
the morning and when he went TO look
them up Gill Massey on whom they
a sinch for horse stealing and Henry
Duminville who was held for burglary
were missing.
Tailor Cha rles Horner went ND stairs
and looked for them but could not find
them He then threatened to leave those
fellows in their cells hereafter IL they
fooled with him.
Just then a colored boy came across
Market street and said two men ran
across from the Jail just as fast as
they could run, and that one ran down
Elm street and the other up Market
street.
Mr.. Horner went on the outside and
saw the basement window on the east
side raised and he surmised that his
prisoners had escaped.
He told some OF the women at the
jail to go over TO the sheriff's Office
= 4 m M q nd ha n
ceeded to lock up the rest Of his pris-
oners in the cells
There was no one in the Office at the
time. Deputy Smith, however. soon
put in his appearance and said to a
reporter for the Eagle come on we
have had a Jail delivery"
Mr.. Smith and the reporter went over
TO the jail and found that the prison.
ers had made their escape by tearing
a hole through a solid thick wall that
separates the lower corridor from the
boiler ROOM After getting into the
boiler room they raised the east wiz
dow which Is on level with the ground
and ran across Market street as 6e-
scribed by the colored boy.
Two young ladies said they were iron
ing in a basement room the door of
which opened into the boiler room and
that they neither heard any noise or
saw anyone go out.
The engineer declared that he had
been in that part OF the boiler room
thirty minutes before the prisoners es-
capped and he did not notice any bricks
misplaced.
A little boy who was locked up in one
of the rotary cells for stealing a pair
of shoes at the Boston store called to
the reporter on the outside Of the Jail
and told him the names of the prisoners
who escaped.
He said that the men had been work.
ing on that wall for two or three days
whenever they were let out. Some one
on the inside told him to shut no that
he did not know what he was talking
about and the young man subs.dcj
I and would say no more.
1t was a considerable time before
officers were in pursuit and the pris-
oners had good start for liberty.
Sheriff Royse was seen after supper
last night at the jail and to saw tina
| he was red hot would be putting ii
, mildly.
II am getting mighty tired OF this
! thing" he said ct was not here when
the prisoners got out but II my men
would obey my orders they would be
| in that Jail now.
! There is an iron door leading into
I the basement that i gave orders 70
/ keep locked but instead OF that Jailor
I HorUer gave the prisoners the run OF
| three stories and sat down 20 read. !
am awful tired OF having prisoners es-
cape
81 don't suppose they will he caught
for with all these big corn fields I do
not believe there are men CROUCH III
Sedgwick county TO catch me IL they
gave me an hours start.
Il told Tailor Horner to keen Gil
Massey safe, for we had a sure case
against him for horse stealing. bu. !.
did not seem 10 make any difference.
! cannot be sheriff and jailor and every
thing else at the same time. ] am
mighty tired of running after pris, n
ers who are allowed TO escape"