Cañon City record., 1899-08-10
DON'T LIKE HIS QUARTERS
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Charles HsGnef, the sx-sonyict, is
not p,sassd With NJ appartmsnts At
n cosnty jan he ~ nsver made
IN sssertion Of this knd to Jailer
Hawkins. but his sstions Indicate -
much. II will be remembered that
HeGnsr, Who has y many aliases -
the proverbisl ct has lives, was shot
IN the leg : few weeks ago BY Abe
Wiley. Since then be has had . trial
on the charge Of creating mutiny
among Others Of Warden Hoyts
charges, receiving remand to the
county Jail to await the convening Of
district court in October. He has
also been hcbbling around ON crutches,
when not engaged in Matching up
devilment. His bread-pan is . regu-
lar incubator Of iniquity, and If some
hellish caprice Is not warmed into
life every "a hours by him, there is
something the matter With Hefner-
or more appropriately. Helster, for
he is continually stirring up little
hell Of bis own-whether in or out Of
jail. Just now he'd rather Be out. A
short time ago it looked as II he had
. hankering to be in
But in or out it is all the same to
Hslstsr. Last Saturday night he got
hold Of the broken blade a meat saw
and . couple Of steel files. With
these he cut . link from each Of the
chains which have been used to fill
the hole made when Albert Creek es-
capped. Sheriff Hawkins discov-
cred the discrepancy Sunday morning
when be made his rounds Of inspec-
ton. Demanding tho tools Hslsss.ee.. Hslsss.ee..
turned over the articles named and q
search Of the cells failed to reveal
anything else that might be used to
advantage in an attempt to escape.
Yesterday morning. however, H. G.
Wetherell, tho janitor at the court
house, xas startled from reveries Of
bloody scenes transacted on the bat
tie fslds Of the civil war by the rasp
Of . saw in wood. After listening .
moment. be located the sound in the
ceiling over the commissioners' room.
Nov the jail Is directly over this
room, and visions Of daylight jail
delivery chased the battle scenes from
the venerable janitor's mind in . hur-
y. He pictured to himself the forms
Of six ruffainly characters successive
ly dropping from . hole in the ceiling
and landing astride Commissioner
Don Crampton's neck, from which
vantage point they could safely slip
10 tbe door and thence through the
epsa door 70 ths stxsst, whsre the
uhols teun uolM - ds6sd ~ :
suign < Carnage inanguratsd more
fkighlful sad horribls in dstail thaa
~ terrible alaaghtsr 1t Bull Ran Or
Gsttysbarg-
Perhaps Helstsr had . similar fancy.
II he had, It was suddenly dislodged.
for the saw was still grating up and
down through the tough pine boards
Of the floor when the heavy bolts of
the corridor door shot back and Mr..
Hawkins confronted him with a loaded
dsrringer in either hand. wetherell
bad given the. alarm and the
sheriff acted promptly.
Hsffner had managed to retain one
piece Of the saw blade during the
search Sunday and with it he had cut
. hole through the corridor door by
reaching through the grating. The
opening was largs enough 70 permit
Of the passage Of . mans body, and
the only obstacles to general Jail
delivery were the plaster ceiling Of
the commissioner room and . pane
Of glass.
Where did the saw come from, and
how did it get inside the jail! This
was the qcestion that agitatcd the
sherif-s Office. But q theory was
soon evolved, which resulted in the
arrest 1t Cripple Creek Of P. c. De-
Mos. He was given q preliminary
hearing yesterday afternoon and held
to The district court under bonds Of
$500. D~Moss claims TO be a meat
cutter and grocery clerk. He was
convicted Of petty larceny at Florence
on July Sd, serving = month in the
county jail. Last Friday be went to
Chetelat 4 Helms MARKET where he
begged . broken meat saw, stating
that hs had lest his trunk KEY and
wanted to cut the lock out. Satur-
day be worked In the shop. A man
answering DsNos5 description pur-
chased two files at Agard's hardware
store Friday or Saturday, and Sunday
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