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-
IiverieS on Record.

Tacoma. Wash, Jan 49, Eleven Of tho
most desperate prisoners In the United
states penltentiary on McNelrs Island
made their escape between and 2
o'clock Sunday and up to a late hour
tonight were stIll at liberty. II was the
most daring and successful Jail break
ever attempted in this state and the
character Of the men implicated makes
1t doubtful whether they win be re-
taken without the loss OF life.
WHO THEY ARE.
The men at large are w, ID. Snyder,
sent up from Idaho Tor robbery, James
Campbell Nome pick pocket Thomas
Morton Nome, burglary, Frank Aims
worth, Nome, larceny Mike Williams,
Spokane counterfeiter: Harry Davis,
Nome Alaska, Frank Moran true
name, Ed O'Nei, Spokane. counter-
feitcr; James MorIarty Spokane.
counterfeiter j r. Stewart. idaho,
counterfeiteE Bruce KenWnght, Nome,
manslaughter James Carroll, Alaska,
murder
PARTICULARS.
a Ledger reporter who visited the,
island tonight brings the following par
ticulars of the rscapc
a hole In he brick wall Of cell No.
10, occupied by Convicts Snyder and
DayisFoveals themeth0d 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-
mel was dug at the junction OF the
wall and the floor slopng outwardly
until lt formed connection with the
air chamber about two feet below and
foot outwardly from the corridor wall
Of the cell Through this air chamber
the prisoners craWled about forty feet
to where II 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
ana scale the board bence A few
yards from the prison grounds and the
dense growth Of timber afforded them
temporarily safe retreat
AT DINNER TIME.
The prisoners took advantage Of the
latitude allowed them during the dim
ner hour 70 consummate their nlans.
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 10 serve them Immediately on
the conclusion Of the guards repast
y dinner gang was az work putting tha
tables in order and the other conViets
had the privilege Of the corridors. One
by one the men slipped into cell No,
10 and craWled through the hole I'M
noticed, When the guards came out
and lined the prisoners up for dinner
eleven were missing. a brief search
resulted in finding The hole In the wall
and the guards at once ran TO the boi.
Ter room, whore the steel door swung
on It's hinges. showing that the meu
had already flown,
IMMEDIATE PURSUIT
Warden Palmer does not think IL
possible the prisoners secured more
than fifteen minutes start Of them. lie
al once sent out squads of guards in
pursuit and made a tour OF the IS
land, notifying the farmers OF the es-
cape and lnstructlng them to guard
their boats carefully so that no op.
portunty would be allowed for escape.
Marshal lde and Warden Palmer are
eXertng all their efforts to establish a
perfect Gordon around the island. he
lleYing that II they can prevent tho
prisoners leaving the island under GOV.