The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-13
YOUNG AGAIN IN TROUBLE
STOLE A RIG FROM Corey
LIVERY STABLE.
How Young, Alias Egan, Escaped
From Jail-Charge Was Dismiss
ed After the Jail-break - Good
Work of Ogden Police.

A complaint was sworn to yesterday
by a Il. Corey charging w. E. Young,
alias Ed Egan, with grand larceny
Egan is the man who stole a rig from
Ccrey's stable July and took the same
to Salt Lake, where he placed 1T in Nc
Coys stable. The announcement in
The Herald yesterday that Egan was
in Salt Lake. being held for Ogden or
ficers. created considerable surprise here
as the public understanding was that
Egan had just been turfed loose by
Ogden officers. The facts as they came
out during the day showed that Egan
broke jail on the afternoon OF July
and that on the morning of July the
charge against him was dismissed by
motion of County Attorney Peery. The
wording of the order was as follows:
1t appearing that conviction here
in cannot be had, it is ordered that said
action be and the same is hereby dis
missed: and it is ordered that deten-
dant be discharged from custody"
At the time it was given out through
all the papers that Young was not pros
ecuted because the witnesses who could
have convicted him were not now in the
reach of Utah subpoenaes. The man
was rot in court when Judge Rolaop
entered the order and his explanation
that Oh the evening VI July y bCDNIS
Sheriff Ballantyne and Attorney Peery
asked him to discharge the man. Mr..
Peery said he would confess the demur-
rer entered by the mans attorney as
Sc en- as court should convene again.
The Judge said when court was open
and the demurrer confessed, he would
act. The officers were urgent ana
asked that the man be released that
night for special reason, which they
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refused until the next morning, when
the order was made as above. By that
time, however, Egan had been at lib
erty SO hours and had committed an
other states prison offense. Had he
only made his way quietly out of the
state he would not have -been bothered,
but he did not Some time after dinner
on the day of July Egan thought ne
had been bottled up long enough and
proceeded to get out. There was no
one in the corridor with him at the
time except crazy man. Egan wect
to the southeast corner of the corridor,
dug through the ceiling which is simply
lath and plaster, dropped into the outer
hallway of the basement and went out.
In the evening he appeared at Corey S
stable and arranged for a rig in the
morning to take drive. With this rig
he made his way to Salt Lake. tee
phoning back once that he was delayed
and could not get back as he promised.
Later he was unearthed from under the
floor of a room in Salt Lake, to which
the police had traced him.
The Ogden police were warned of the
plan Of Egan to break jail and also
OF his plan either to get away with a
rig or get into a gun store and arm
himself. Then the Corey buggy turned
up missing. On two separate occasions.
they Inquired of the sheriff's office if
Egan were yet in jail and received an
affirmative answer. as even the clerk
up stairs in the sheriff's office did not
know of the Jail break.
Sheriff Belnap was not in the county
until the evening of July 6, being up i'll
Bear Lake valley after Wilson and
Hubbard Deputy Ballantyne says
Egan was to be turned loose anyway
and he did not choose to make the mat
ter of the escape public.
Jailer Chambers says Egan might
have made his escape at countless 9TH
er times when there was no Waterman
about, and that both he and Egan
knew it.