The age-herald., 1901-02-25
GEORGE GRAY IN A TALKATIVE MOOD Tells of Plot to Escape from
 County Jail HIS CONNECTION WITH II Says He Was Taken Into the Confi- dence of the MiIler-Duncan
 Gang of Crooks-An
 Interesting Story.
HIS CONNECTION WITH 1T

George Gray, the young white man who was taken in the confidence of the Miller Duncan gang of crooks in their effort 10 escape from the county jail, and who figured as the recipient of a pair of shoes, in the soles of which were con cealcd a number of saws that were in tercepted by tho jail authorities, has been released from prison and tells of his con- nection with the incident, and of the plot of the gang to regain their liberty.
 He paints Miller as a cunning, conniv- ing. desperate man, who says he will never die on the gallows despite the fact that he Is under sentence of death. Gray was seen by an Age-Herald reporter yes- terday and tells the following story of hIs connection with the matter:
 After the first break was made, Mil Ter called me over to his cell and said: You are from the north and can be de- pended on can't your and said he had sent for some saws in my name. I said You ought not to have done that He said you won't get into any trouble on account of it. The people sending them are up north and can be depended upon. I will pretend to buy them from you and nobody need know anything about it.
 I didn't like the thing at all. I knew there would be trouble. If the saws had been received they were to have been divided up Dick West was to saw a small place for them to get out. He was to get up in one of the dark windows on the side, if he got a chance, and on
 
 would be hard to see a man.
 If that plan miscarried, West was to knock the night watchman out and take his gun. After that they expected every thing to be plain sailing.
 A few days after Miller made a state ment, taking all the responsibility on his shoulders. This was done to make it look like Fay Edwards, nor West had nothing to do with it as their trial was to come off in a week or two.
 Miller gets morphine whenever he wants 1t. A voting fellow who was sem fenced for three years, whose name I do not remember, but who was called Dog face" was given a large dose of nor phine by Miller that nearly knocked him cut. He had told Miller he had a cold. That was about three days before Dog faces" trial.
 Miller claimed in his statement that I was advance agent for some safe cracks men. The charge against me was for talk ing bicycle. All have to say is that it's rather poor safe cracking crowd that can not buy secondhand bicycle for it's advance agent or fix him up better than I was when arrested.
 Tom Fay had a saw a few days after Miller wrote the letter to his friends in the North for saws, and asked me to help saw out, but I told him I had gone too far as it was and wouldn't have any thing more to do with 1t. I told Thomp- son. the day deputy, to be on the look out for crooked package, l thought IL had gone about far enough to let the of- fcers know.
 The day the saws came, Miller salo to me: What do you think about them things. Looks kinder funny, don't it?' I said: "Yes, 1t does look funny. lie said: "I have to tell Duncan to write a letter and give them people hint about the things" That afternoon MT. Suther called me to the window and said: "Gray, them shoes and saws came from your sis- ter. but I'm going to keep them for a while."
 When MT. Suther told me that the saws and shoes had come, Miller called me to his cell and told me that Thompson, the day deputy, had told him about that crooked package a week before and that they had been expecting 1t all along Thompson didn't care about my feelings at all, for if he had kept quiet about 1t as he should have done 1t wouldn't have been so uncomfortable for me in there. As soon as the prisoners thought it was me that gave the thing up I couldn't have been treated worse. They had no more use for me after that.
 Miller pretends to be a pretty smart man and to understand human nature pretty well,- but he should have found some one he could trust I didn't want to be mixed up in 1t at all. He claims that he will never be hanged, whether convicted or not. He says he will get out somehow. He Is a desperate man and won't stop at murder or anything else.