Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-20
DESPERATE MEN
MAKE AN ESCAPE,
State OF Washington Has One OF the Most
Daring and Successful Jail De-
liveries on Record.

Tacoma WASHED Jan. 10. Eleven Of the
most desperate prisoners In the United
States penltentlary on McNclls Island
made their escape between ] and 2
o'clock Sunday and up to late hour
tonight were stiIl at liberty II was the
most daring and successful JAIN break
ever attempted in this state and the
character Of the men implicated makes
It doubtful whether they win be re-
taken without the loss Of HE.
WHO THEY ARE.
The men at large are w. ID. Snyder
sent up from Idaho for robbery James
Campbell, Nome, pick pocket; Thomas
Morton Nome, burglary Frank Aims
worth, Nome larceny, Mike williams
Spokane, couuterfeiter barry Davis
Nome Alaska, Frank Moran. true
name. Ed. O'Neil Spokane, counter
feltcr James Morarity Spokane,
counterfeiter, j, +. stewart Idaho,
counterfelter' Bruce KenVrlght, Nome,
manslaughter; James Carroll Alaska
murder
PARTICULARS
a Ledger reporter who visited the,
island tonight brings The following par
ticulors Of the escape.
A hole In ihc brick wall Of cell No
10, occupied by CoWicts Snyder and
DaVisrcyeals themelhod Of escape. The
wall Is about a foot In thickness and
the floor Of the cell IS OF equal thick
ness covered with concrete The tun-
nel was dug at the junction of the
wall and the floor sIoping outWardly
until 1t formed q connection with the
air chamber about two feet below and
foot outW0rdly from the corridor wall
Of the cell Through this air chamber
the prisoners crawed about forty fee
10 where Il opened into the boiler room.
the opening being covered with an iron
grating. This obstacle was overcome
by the use of saws and the prisoners
had then only TO walk out Of the back
door OF the boiler room across the yard
and scale the board bencc, a few
yards from the prison grounds and the
dense growth Of timber afforded them
temporarily safe retrent
AT DINNER TIME.
The prisoners took advantage Of the
latitude allowed them during the din
ner hour 10 COnHummate their plans.
which had been carefully designed and
boldly executed. The guards, with the
exception OF two who were on duty on
the wall overlooking the corridor, were
eating dinner In the dining room The
tables were being spread In the corridor
for the prisoners dinner. II being Gus
tomary to serve them Immediately on
the conclusion Of the guards repast.
a dinner gang was at work putting tho
tables in order and the other conyicts
had the privilege Of The corridors. one
by one the men slipped into cell No.
10 and crawled through the hole un-
noticed. When the guards came out
and lined the prisoners up for dinner,
eleven we're missing A brief search
resulted In finding the hole IN the wall
and the guards nj once ran 10 the boi-
Ter room where the steel door swung
on It's hinges, showing that the men
had already flown
IMMEDIATE PURSUIT
Warden Palmer does not think ii
possible the prisoners secured more
than fifteen minutes start Of them He
at once sent out squads of guards In
pursuit and made tour Of The Is
land, notifying the farmers Of The es-
cape and instructlng them TO guard
their boats carefully. so that no up-
portunity would be allowed for escape.
Marshal Idc and Warden Palmer are
iii ~,
perfect Gordon around the island be-
lieyng that II they can prevent tho
prisoners leaving the island under COW