The daily sentinel., 1899-09-28
ALL WERE CAPTURED
.lidfigilH 4
The -Four Prisoners Are No,o IN
Limbo-Ttoo Captured at
Time-IOo Much Haste
Upsets a Well Ma 'l1
tured Plan to
Get Free.


Ono of the most desperate Jail deliver
les that has ever occurred In tho crimi-
nal history OF Mesa county, occurred
this morning at about half past nine
o'clock, Just at the close Of the Arst meal
Of the day for the prisoners in the Mesa
county jail. i -''
-Four prisoners secured their freedom
temporarily. one being known as a trusty
In the prison and the others being in
jail on the charge Of grand larceny.
Two meals dayars given TO the pri..::
ensrs in the Mesa county ia,l. One is
given in the middle Of the morning and
the other about A:3O O'Clock in the after
noon.
For bome little time past the man
known - ths trusty. Tom Matson, has
bssp dpjng sope oi the cooking, ssaist-
Ing an old man who has been serving
at tho Jail, by the name Of q. ]. Ivy. +
This morning the "trusty" cooked the
breakfast and all the men had ,atsn and
were about to retire to their cells for the
day, when the break for liberty oc-
Cured.
Three Of the men were in the corridor
Of the cells and the trusty for some
rsssop 81 other passed by tho side OF
pnder Sheriff George r. Barton, to OBJ
tain somethinsr, just Is Mr.. Barton was
holding with his left hand to the cell
door, preparatory to locking it. When
Matson had passed by Mr.. Barton he
sudds.iyh turned, and .gfasping Barton
around the waist, pinionsd his arms 70
his side. The other three men jumped
to their companions aid and Barton, af-
ter being deprived Of his revolver, was
showed into the corridor of the Jail and
the door locked. -,... ....4.tt-,I
During this time one OF the men was
attending 10 securing tho old man Ivy,
whoon acsount Of rheumatism, is prac-
ticxliy helpless, and had pushed him to
a corner In the hind part ofths Jail, bus
the cries Of Barton as he struggled to
FREQ himself with the other thFee men
upon him. frightened the one who was
about 10 dispose Of Ivy, in sotne way
that he loqesd his hold upon Ivy and the
latter, finding himself loose, ran from
the iail to give the alarm. ah
Barton was at this time, hors dc com
bat, a. he was looked in the prison cor
ridor and he could do nothing hut yell
for help. 4'4''' '''',... ,,..., i
Had the old. man not escaped through
the man having him in charge becoming
frightened, the prisoners would have
had > good eteape, IS itwould have bsen
hard 10 sttreat attention, I a the, prison
/, on frequently sing and yell, sp that The
u people who live in that vicinity. pay but
little attention 70 the Jail inmates.
Howevsr, the alarm being given by Ivy,
Mr.. Barton was soon released and = hot
pursuit bsgan for the escaped prisoners.
Just ss Roy Wadsrorth, was Ieayins
{ hid home on north FifSh street he mo-
ticsd the fleeing prisoners. 1t fssst t~o
. a them. ths others having eons Il "a
opposite dirsctisn, and after giving the
darn he went in pursuit q thsm. s'S
The prisoners won't in the direction q
the big galley, north u the Littls boek
CIn depot. Az yd~ss WadswortAi vent
in pursuit Of the prisoners hs was mo-
ticed by VIII. Lonsshors, who joined
him in. tha chasMs ,,sii s-.a..s4
A. they rsachsassspotats near the
houBs II MieAAsa Dfunmy, The prisoosrs