Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-13
BROKE JAIL. THE JONES BOYS, JIM HACkETT AND T. J. ANDERSON MAKE
 THEIR ESCAPE.
ALL WERE IN ONE CELL.
Deputy culpepper Made the Rounds at 10 O'clock-Four Desperate
 Characters.

Jim and Will Jones, of Joplin. Mo. Jim Hackett, of this city. and T. J. Anderson of Yorktown, all white, and who were the guests of Jailer Davis at the county jail, quietly left the city early Wednesday morning. without even bidding their host "adieu.a These guests did not leave the county bas- tile by means of front door, but made an exit of their own in the rear of the building
 They were all incarcerated in one cell on the second floor, just at the northwest corner of the building. The manner in which they effected their escape was first begun by filing thick iron bar of their cell in two, at it's top and bottom. After lifting it out they left the cell. Next they re west wall, making a hole large enough for a mans body to pass through, and then they went out into the open world.
 Before making hole in the wall, however, the prisoners were compell- ed to swing themselves to the lower floor of the bastile. They removed the
 bricks from the wall nearest the floor in order to lessen their distance to 
 dozen brick removed from the wall
 and the mystery is how the men got
 through so small an aperture.
 Once on the outside of the jail build ing the men found their object accom-
 plished. Climbing over the large iron fence which surrounds the jail. the
 men were free and fled for parts un- l known.
 The escape of the prisoners was not
 discovered until after daylight this morning, and the information was given to the jail authorities by pc :, dcstrian, who noticed the hole in the wall and reported his discovery, Deputy Pleas Culpepper was in
 charge of the jail and it's occupants when the quartette of criminals es- capped. To a Graphic reporter this
 morning he said: "I saw the Jones | boys, Hackett and Anderson for the at which time I ordered the men into their respective cells and threw the locks. There were four hunks in the cell at the northwest corner of the
 building and I locked Anderson, Hack cit and the Jones boys in there I do not know the exact time of their es-
 cape, but am positive that they gained their liberty after 10 o'clock They
 were certainly in the jail when I clos
 ed the cells for the night. I was up and awake almost all of the night, as
 Jailer Davis was quite sick and ad- ministered medicine to him."
 The Jones boys, who were two of the four men that escaped. were con- sidered desperate as well as clever criminals. The officials in charge of the jail knew their bent still they al
 lowed them to remain together They have the appearance of being profes- sional criminals and the ialer or his assistants could not have used too much care with them. Anderson and Hackett. the other men who left with the Jones brothers, were what the jail birds call wise guys" and the fact that they were placed in the same cell with the Joneses. reflects blame on the officials generally. It was a we'll known feet. and the Graphic man recently heard an afficial admit it. that the four men who escaped were the most desperate and smoothest of the prisoners in the county jail Just why these four men were incarcerated in one cell, when they could have been separated is not made clear.