Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-08
THEY'RE AFTER HIM
A Squad Of Silent SlsuthS Ransacs
Liberty Park
SEARCHING FOR FRANK HAMILTON.
Their Search In Vain, How ytr, ana
They Relurn 10 the Police Sta
iion Empy.lIanded.

reporter, went stunning this morn
ing. Not after ducks, rabbits or small
game OF that kind, but after convict
in the person OF Frank Hamilton, the
young desperate who escaped from the
State prison some time curling the
morning hours OF yesterday. AT this
writing, however, Frank Is still at
large, az the exposition IN question
proved Ruthless and the party returned
empty-haDded.
1t was In the neighborhood OF 10
o'clock this morning when Officer
Parry te:ephoned the police station
from Liberty Park, that q man an
swsring In toto the description Of
Hamilton had been seen wandering
his way leisurely through the Park.
| The ofilcer asked that squad be
cent down Immediately as no was
quite certain that tho much.wanteG
| individual was Sill tkulkiDg around
in that neig hborhood.
| Accordingly Sergeant Eslingsr
| mustered force OF the best OF them
aud the "jsck.box," more commonly
called the patrol wagon, with Johnnie
| Armstrong az the driver was soon
| rolling towards the Park with the
| captain, Detectives Sheets and Raleigh,
| Officers Roberts and H-mple, Unuer.
| graduate Wilson and NEWS reporter
as the chosen men. The Drive, with
the departments team Of spanking
grays attached to the wagon, was
| most pleasant one indeed, made all
the more 30 by remarks OF the gunners
as to Just exactly how the capture OF
the pIucky young fellow would be
effected. George Sheets was going to
take him by the seat OF the trousers
AMI pitch him headlopg into the jack
box; the NEWS man VOLUNTEERED his
sprinting qualifications should hamil-
ton make the slightest attempt at rum
ming, while George Raleigh and the
other members OF the party had divers
other methods OF effectiveness to
throw into requisition in case Mr..
Hamilton ahouiu see fit to 30 conduc.
himself as to bring the resi- ective
qualifications out OF their hiuing
places.
The Park Was reached In due time
| and first one man and thsn another
interviewed as to what had become of
"that Teller that was seen going
through the Park this morning." One
man who was engaged in making nay
while the tun hone, volunteered the
Information that the suspected indi-
vidual was seen making his way
through the north gate about O'Clock,
while Ofson NJ. West, assistant keeper
OF the Park, corroborated his neigh bOr's
statement. Mr.. Hunt, who was busy
moving the lawn, said he saw man
wearing a rusty, SLOUGH hat, going
through the Park an hour or 90 be.
fore. 1.-THE fellow passed me-"
said Hunt, "but 1 didn't pay
any special attention to him, although
know he was hard-looking combi-
nation. He hung his head as be
passed by, and l never thought OF the
man who escaped from the pen until
he had gone on through the gate. He
answered very well the description OF
the man as published In the papers"
Officer Parry was next seen. III
met a hard LICKING fellow about 8
o'clock this morning." SAID he. she
asked me ~ n fellow would be- liable for
treepass n he walked throug the Park"
I toll MIN NO. provided he kept on
the path, anu then he walked on.
The convici's escape from the pen
Yesterday didn't occur to nae at the
time, but alter he had gone, II str uck
me mat he might be the man." With
this, "Ieps go back" came the order
from Captain EsIinger, and whesling
the grays around. the journey to the
city hail wss begun by way OF Ninth
South street.
Down Ninth South rolled the wagon
until West Temple was reached, the
Journey taking the'sleuths through a n
area Of country we'll populated with
high growing weeds, whicn, however,
did not reveal the presence OF the man
sought after. Into u well cultivated
FIELD went Officers Roberta and Hen :
pie, but Hamilton could not be- founG 4,
and at length the convict-pursuing
party Ieaehed the station, empty
D handed as on leaving.
Detective Sheets and Raleigh are
OF the opinion that Hamilton
is not fool enough to be loafing around
Liberty Park or any other Salt Lake
3 thorUughfare. They argue thst " he u
leaving the Slate prison be likely
stole silently southwark ana wended
his way toward the railroad tracks
D where he boarded train aud got out
] His prison attire, they tbink, will scI
I rather antagonistic to his escape and
therefore they are confident 10 the
d. belief that in a short while, he will be
. | CApiuItu ibtO tuc piuCt
b ire M which he SO cleverly escaped.
WARDEN Dow's OPINION.
!, Warden Dow was seen by a NEWS
I. man to-day ana gave 1t as HIS opinion
. that Hamilton was carried cut 10 q
/; cinder box, by two other convicts. II
!, lie the custom TO carry out the cindert
i each morning, and deposit the M some
distance nom the prison. Hamilton
being email man 1t was an easy
matter to nave secretsd MIN In this
I box. Itis the custom OF the I'll ;ers
\ to examine the box, but liz,
( every other iule. 1t sCmetiu.e 81
y works both ways and yesterday
/ morning 1t happened that the rule
Il worked the wrong way. The men
( who carried out the cinders say that
. Hamilton was not In the tox 10 theil
knowledge, and they think they woulC
: know something about II were ut
j. around al the time.
r State, county and city Off cars are OF
n the lookout for the escaped couvict RnC
9 1t is The opinion OF tho older ones that
u before many days shall have gone b.
the gentle man will DO IN captivity